Benedict Rogers has been selected to be the Conservative Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the City of Durham.  · Click Here 

He is a journalist and human rights advocate, and author of A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People (Monarch, 2004). He  works with the international human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) in London, and has travelled extensively to Burma, East Timor, China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. He has contributed to a variety of publications, including the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Hong Kong Standard, the Times, the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He worked as editorial writer and columnist on the Hong Kong Standard from 2000-2002, and for Euromoney/Institutional Investor Publications from 1997-2000. He is co-author of The Life & Death of a Dotcom in China (Asia Law & Practice Books, 2000). In 2003, he lived in Washington, DC where he established CSW’s presence on Capitol Hill. He served on Board of Trustees of CSW UK from 1996-2003, and founded CSW Hong Kong. He is a Trustee of HART (the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust) and the Metta Trust for Children’s Education, and is a member of the panel of advisers to Generositywithoutborders.org. He has appeared regularly on radio and television, and briefs Members of the British Parliament, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Union, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the US State Department and US Congress on human rights and religious freedom. He has spoken at the White House, the US Congressional ‘Faith and Law’ Fellowship, the Heritage Foundation, the Conservative Party Conference, and in churches, conferences and demonstrations around the world. He holds a B.A in Modern History and Politics from the University of London, and an M.A in China Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and is a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and the Bow Group.

James Mawdsley campaigns for democracy, the rule of law and respect for the dignity of the person. He has written for local and national newspapers and is author of The Heart Must Break: the Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma, an account of what he has witnessed in Burma’s border areas and prisons. He is a frequent public speaker on democracy, speaking throughout the United Kingdom and in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. He is the founder and Chairman of the Metta Trust for Children’s Education (MTCE). He is a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and a prospective Conservative Party candidate for the North West Region for the June 2004 European elections.

For further information, you can contact Benedict Rogers and James Mawdsley on: Newgroundfp@aol.com