Tuesday, April 24, anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide, chaired a meeting to hear from expert historians led by Christopher Walker in the Grand Committee Room. The proceedings are to be published, and will contribute towards the campaign for official recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Government.
Then, a meeting of the All-Party Burma Group, and after that to Mr Speaker's for the announcement of the Mr Speaker Abbott Award (of which I'm one of the judges). This year's award went to Akbar Ganji from Iran, with a special posthumous award to Anna Politkovskaya.
Thursday, attended a morning FCO roundtable on Afghanistan.
Today, had a long conversation with Maurice in NZ on Skype.
Francis Story The Search for the Self
The search for Self is vain, because it is a search for something that does not exist except as a mythical concept which has had to be taken into the structure of language by common assent. If it is used in any other way than as a fictitious convenience - if it is taken as meaning something real and enduring - it cannot be anything but a stumbling-block to the development of right understanding.
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About Me
- Eric Avebury
- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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