Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
Gillian Patricia Shephard,Baroness Shephard of Northwold,,is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005. Shephard served as a Cabinet Minister,and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Patricia Janet Scotland,Baroness Scotland of Asthal,,is a British diplomat,barrister and politician,serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations. She was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post. She was elevated to the House of Lords in 1997 and,as a British Labour Party politician,served in ministerial positions within the UK Government,most notably as the Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland. She is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Dominica,where she was born.
Angela Evans Smith,Baroness Smith of Basildon is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords since 2015. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
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.
Joan Brownlow Hanham,Baroness Hanham,CBE is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
Brenda Marjorie Hale,Baroness Hale of Richmond,,is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020.
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss,Baroness Butler-Sloss,GBE,PC,is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004,when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007,she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana,Princess of Wales,and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date,and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
Jean Alys Barker,Baroness Trumpington,was a British Conservative politician and life peer. In the 1960s and 1970s she served in local government in Cambridgeshire. In 1980 she was created a life peer after which she served in the House of Lords. From an upper-class background,she was a socialite and a secretary before entering politics,as well as serving in naval intelligence in World War II.
Sayeeda Hussain Warsi,Baroness Warsi,is a British lawyer,politician,and member of the House of Lords who served as co-chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition,first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012,then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities,until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy relating to the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014.
Caroline Anne Cox,Baroness Cox,is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords. She is also the founder of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART). Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005,as well as being a minister in government. She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University,Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006 to 2013,and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.
Lindsay Patricia Northover,Baroness Northover,is a British academic,Liberal Democrat politician,member of the House of Lords,and former junior government minister.
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS),part of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS) at Brigham Young University (BYU),was formally founded on January 1,2000,to promote freedom of religion worldwide and to study the relations between governments and religious organizations. The ICLRS strives to be a global academic leader in the field of international religious freedom. The ICLRS was built upon the work of law professor Cole Durham,who was named its founding director. Brett Scharffs has been the ICLRS director since May 2016.
W. Cole Durham Jr. is an American educator. He is Brigham Young University Professor of Law and Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) at Brigham Young University's (BYU) J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS). He is an internationally active specialist in religious freedom law,involved in comparative law scholarship,with a special emphasis on comparative constitutional law. In January 2009,the First Freedom Center granted him the International First Freedom Award,in Richmond,Virginia.
SharmishtaChakrabarti,Baroness Chakrabarti,is a British politician,barrister,and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party,she served as the director of Liberty,a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights,from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020,she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.
Janet Alison Whitaker,Baroness Whitaker is a British politician with the Labour Party.
Nicola Claire Blackwood,Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford is a British politician of the Conservative Party. Baroness Blackwood was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 to 2017. She has also been known by her married name Nicola Blackwood-Bate since 2016.
Atta-Ur-Rehman Chishti is a Pakistani-born British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gillingham and Rainham since 2010. He served under Theresa May as both the Vice Chair of the Conservative Party for Communities in 2018 and the Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Pakistan from 2017 to 2018. Between 2019 and 2020,he also served as Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for North America,Sanctions and Consular Policy from July to September 2022. He was one of 11 candidates in the July 2022 leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.
Anne Caroline Jenkin,Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
The International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB) is a network of parliamentarians from around the world committed to combating religious persecution and advancing freedom of religion or belief,as defined by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
