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Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights
Commission. Stephen
Crabb was elected to Parliament in 2005 at the age of 32. He is
currently the youngest Conservative MP, and has made
international human rights and the promotion of democracy around
the world a key priority. In October 2006 he introduced a
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Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission. Ben is a human rights activist and journalist, and stood as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate in the City of Durham in the General Election in 2005. He is the co-author of New Ground: Engaging People with the Conservative Party through a bold, principled and imaginative foreign policy (www.newground.org.uk), and author of A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People (Monarch, 2004). He will focus on Burma, The Maldives and India (Dalits) |
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Gary Streeter is MP for South West Devon, and also serves as Chairman of the Conservative Party International Office. He is Vice Chairman of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the UK's democracy building foundation. He has served as a Government Minister from 1995-97, and as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 1998-2001. |
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Member of
Parliament for Buckingham. John Bercow is a former Shadow Secretary
of State for International Development and is currently a member of
the International Development Select Committee. He holds a number of
posts with All Party Groups including, Co-Chair of the All Party
Parliamentary Group on Burma, Vice-Chair of the Genocide Prevention
Group and Secretary of the Human Rights Group. John Bercow has
travelled to many conflict areas, including Darfur, Zimbabwe, the
Thai-Burmese border and Gaza and the West Bank. In 2005, he received
the Channel Four/Hansard Society Political Award for Opposition MP
of the Year and the House Magazine Award for Backbencher of the
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Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath and Shadow Minister for Housing. Before entering Parliament, Michael Gove was a journalist with The Times and regularly appeared on BBC Radio 4’s “The Moral Maze”. He was also Chairman of the think-tank Policy Exchange. He will focus on Cuba. |
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Member of Parliament for The Wrekin and Joint Secretary of the Conservative Party's Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. He will focus on Latin America. |
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Member of Parliament for Aldershot and Shadow Minister for Defence. |
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Warren studied law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Thomas Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He then went on to gain a Masters degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Durham and train at the Inns of Court School of Law for the Bar. Warren previously worked in the Political Section at Conservative Central Office writing briefing documents for William Hague and the Shadow Cabinet. Warren currently serves in the Territorial Army and as a District Councillor for Welwyn Hatfield District Council. He will have responsibility for focusing on Ethiopia and Eritrea. |
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Jenny Parsons has a professional background in media and politics. She is currently Chief of Staff to Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health Secretary. She is Treasurer to the Conservative Human Rights Commission with responsibility for Chechnya and Turkmenistan. |
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Sam is a Parliamentary Research Assistant and is reading Law at the LSE. He is Chairman of his constituency Conservative Future and currently serves in the Royal Naval Reserve. In 2004, he visited the Democratic Republic of Congo with Lord Alton of Liverpool, sponsored by Jubilee Campaign. Sam also has experience working for a US Senator. He will focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. |
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Martin holds a first-class honours degree in European Studies (Economics, Languages and Politics) from Royal Holloway University of London and works as a representative for the Forum of Private Business, a UK small business organisation, in Westminster and Brussels. Martin was a Conservative local government election candidate in the London Borough of Southwark. He is a former university and area chairman of Conservative Future, and former vice-chairman of European Democrat Students (EDS), a pan-European Centre-Right youth organisation. Through EDS he met several activists of the democratic resistance in Belarus, a country whose cause he has taken up ever since. He is responsible for monitoring Belarus, and Uzbekistan, a country he has visited, and is keeping a watching brief on Russia. |
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Rado is reading an MPhil in Chinese Studies at Cambridge, he is the Southeast Asia director of foreign policy for the Henry Jackson Society and previously worked at the think tank Policy Exchange and for the young Conservative organisation Wave Network. He has experience of political work overseas in Bangkok, for the Center for the Study of the Presidency in Washington, DC and for the Burmese Government in Exile. He has also lived and worked in Vietnam. He will focus on Vietnam. | ||
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Samuel is Deputy Editor of ConservativeHome and is studying Politics and International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, where he is Ox & Bucks Area Chairman of Conservative Future. He has previously worked for the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post newspapers, and a target seat election campaign. Samuel has responsibility for Iran and assists with Latin America. | ||
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Jo has a BSc. in Geography and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She is married and runs her family’s property business in The Midlands. She is a former Chairman of Streatham Conservatives. Jo has responsibility for Nepal and Tibet for the CPHRC. |
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Nicola is Parliamentary Researcher to Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. She has undergraduate and masters degrees in music and is taking time out from a D.Phil. in cultural history. During the last two years she has visited and volunteered at aid projects in Bangladesh, Israel, South Africa and Mozambique. Previously, Nicola worked as an intern with the Political Unit in CRD and the CCHQ Press Office and stood as a city council candidate at the local elections. |
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Sarah has a first class honours degree in International Relations and Journalism from her native Australia and an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has lived and worked in Japan and spent time in China and South Korea. Sarah is currently the National Co-ordinator of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and is involved with the work of her South Korean husband in South Africa, Taiwan and China. She will focus on North Korea. |
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Richard Blakeway is an advisor on the Conservative Party's Global Poverty Policy Group. He has worked as an aide to the Chairman of the Select Committee on International Development and edited the International Development Magazine. Richard has extensive experience of election observing with the OSCE in developing countries, focusing on human rights issues as part of election campaigns. | ||
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