Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
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Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018.
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[On the situation for women in Afghanistan after the 2020-2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan] They were not allowed to leave home without a male escort.
"Europe faces Schindler’s List moment", The New European (4 November 2021)
This is Schindler's List time. These women were in mortal danger.
Cited by Christina Lamb in "Afghan female judges rescued by Baroness Kennedy", The Times (31 October 2021).
Sometimes they are Afghanis who have worked for us. Sometimes they are Afghanis of a particular minority called the Hazara, who get slaughtered as soon as the Taliban look at them.
"Baroness tells of 'terrible texts' from trapped Afghan women pleading for help", The Independent (25 June 2003)
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George SteinerAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Bristol
René DavidAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Leicester
Percy Alexander MacMahonAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen
John WhittingdaleAlso won Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Lisa JardineAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen
Decimus BurtonAlso won Fellow of the Royal Society of ArtsAbout this person
Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2018. A bencher of Gray's Inn, she is an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 honorary degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is president of Justice, the law reform think tank, and director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). In 2024, Kennedy succeeded Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury as chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.
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