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Vera Baird QC<\/strong> Appointed Queen’s Counsel in \n2000, when she was Deputy Head of the Chambers of Michael Mansfield \nQC, she is an Honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College Oxford and of \nTeesside University and a Visiting Professor at South Bank University \nin London. Her publications include studies of rape and defending \nbattered women who kill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria in 2012. Rita Donaghy CBE<\/strong> Pat Hawkes MBE<\/strong> Helena Kennedy QC <\/strong> Alice Mahon<\/strong> Gloria Mills CBE<\/strong> Margaret Prosser OBE<\/strong> Vera Baird QC Appointed Chair of ‘Everywoman Safe Everywhere – Commission on Women’s Safety eest, November 2011. Solicitor-General and Assistant Regional Minister for the North East in the last government, from 2006 to the last General Election, Vera Baird was Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2005 and Labour MP for Redcar from 2001 to 2010. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sisters.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Appointed Chair of ‘Everywoman Safe Everywhere – \nCommission on Women’s Safety eest, November 2011.\n Solicitor-General and Assistant Regional Minister for the North \nEast in the last government, from 2006 to the last General Election, \nVera Baird was Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice from\n 2005 and Labour MP for Redcar from 2001 to 2010. During her term as a \nMinister she took the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act and the \nEquality Act 2010 through all its House of Commons stages. As a \nbackbencher before 2005 she was a member of the Joint Committee on \nHuman Rights, the Work and Pensions Select Committee and on the \nStanding Committees of many Bills including the Domestic Violence Crime \n and Victims Act, the Sexual Offences Act and the Criminal Justice Act \n2003. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n www.verabaird.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Former Chair of Advisory Conciliation Arbitration \nService (ACAS) and former Interim Chair of the Committee on Standards in\n Public Life (the Nolan Committee). President of the TUC 1999\/2000. \nPreviously Chair of the TUC Women\u2019s Committee, member of Low Pay \nCommission until 2000, member of EOC Task Group on Equal Pay, past \nmember of ETUC Executive Committee. Elected member of UNISON National \nExecutive Council. Awarded OBE in 1997 for services to industrial \nrelations and CBE in 2005 for services to employment relations. \nConducted Review of Women\u2019s National Commission in 2007 and \u201cand \nproduced a Report for Government on Fatalities in the Construction \nIndustry in 2009.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Retired primary teacher. Labour Councillor for \nBrighton 1981 to date. On Brighton and Hove Unitary Council, Chair of \nChildren, Families and Schools Committee. Executive Member of the \nNational Union of Teachers for 13 years, twice National President. \nRetired member of TUC general Council. Member of TUC Women\u2019s, Lesbian \n& Gay Rights and Disabilities Committees. Worker representative at \nILO Geneva for four years, including service on Convention on Worst \nforms of Child Labour. Awarded MBE in 2008 for public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n A Bencher of Grays Inn and Chair of the Human Rights \nGenetics Commission, previously Chair of the British Council. As a \nmember of the House of Lords her special interests are human rights, \ncivil liberties and social justice. She was UK Woman of Europe 1995 and\n is President of the National Children’s Bureau. During 2005\/6 she \nchaired the POWER Inquiry into Britain’s democracy. She is a frequent \nwriter and broadcaster on law and women’s and human rights.
\n www.helenakennedy.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Labour MP for Halifax from1987 to 2005, Labour Party\n member for almost 50 years, trade union steward and District \nCouncillor 1982 \u2013 87. Member of North Atlantic Assembly, Chair of all \nparty group on Breast Cancer, member of all party group on Human Rights \nand Chair of Committee for Peace in the Balkans. On the National \nCouncil of CND<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Past President of the TUC, Director and National Organiser Equal \nOpportunities of UNISON, member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, \nmember of the TUC General Council , and Women\u2019s Committee. Former \nmember of Department for Education and Employment\u2019s Race Relations Forum\n and the Home Secretary\u2019s Race Relations Forum. She started life in the\n private sector in law publishing, held various lay member posts in the\n forerunners of the Graphical Print and Media Union and became a \nRegional Officer of the National Union of Public Employees in 1985 and \nSenior National Officer in 1987 until it merged to become UNISON in \n1993.\n Frances O’Grady
\n TUC Deputy General Secretary\n since 2003, the first woman to hold this position. Joined the TUC in \n1994, after working for TGWU on social justice and equality issues. Was \ndirector of the TUC New Unionism project that launched the Organising \nAcademy and played a key role in setting up Unionlearn. Serves on the \nLow Pay Commission, is a member of the Skills Funding Agency Advisory \nGroup and Council member of the Women of the Year Lunch and Foundation. \nActive in the development of the TUC energy and climate change policy \nand sits on the Government’s Green Economy Council.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Chair of the Women and Work Commission 2004-6 and \nWomen\u2019s National Commission until March 2007. Previously Deputy General\n Secretary Transport and General Workers Union, Member of the Low Pay \nCommission until 2005 and member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal \nuntil 2006. District Organiser of TGWU 1983-85, National Women\u2019s \nSecretary 1985-1992. Member of the TUC General Council for 11 years and \n TUC President 1995\/6. Awarded OBE in July 1997 for services to \nIndustrial Relations and Women\u2019s Issues and now Baroness. Deputy Chair \nof the new Commission for Equality & Human Rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"