Eric Avebury

Monday, February 28, 2011

Saeed Shehabi speaking at last Monday's seminar on Bahrain

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

St John's, Smith Square, Tuesday evening

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International Baroque Players: Journey of Discovery Apollo & Dionysus Welcome to tonight's concert! Thanks for joining us and coming...

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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Bahrain - is it an opening?

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The whole of last week Parliament was in recess. But on Tuesday I chaired a meeting on the developments in Bahrain where, following large de...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

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  Demonstrations by Kuwaiti Bidoon for their right to citizenship and to public services From Middle East Online: Five wounded as Kuwait pol...
Friday, February 18, 2011

The week

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There hasn't been time to update the blog so far this week, but the House rose yesterday until Monday week, giving me the opportunity of...

Unlawful killings by security forces in Bahrain

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  Death certificate of a 22-year old who was killed at one of the demonstrations in Bahrain this week. So far at least 7 people have been mu...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Poetry reading

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After the Bangladesh award ceremony Lindsay picked me up and we went to the Minet Library, round the corner from where we live, for a poetry...

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  With the award-winning son of Dr Ruab Uddin.

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  At the ceremony to present Bangladeshi students with awards for outstanding performance in GCSE and A level exams, Saturday February 11. T...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Cardiologist Dr M to Consultant Vascular Surgeon:

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His cardiac history dates back to a coronary artery bypass operation performed by Mr D here at King's College Hospital in 1995. This fol...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

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  The Snows leaving at the end of their week's visit, after lunch on Saturday

Hearing in 1 Abbey Gardens on Friday

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The major event of last week was the hearing on Thursday and Friday of evidence in relation to an inquiry organised by the Travellers Aid Tr...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

Abbas Faiz on last week's meeting with Sheikh Hasina

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Amnesty International Meeting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Abbas Faiz discussed war crimes trials and extrajudicial executions ...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Report on meeting with Sheikh Hasina in New Age

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Stern action against those responsible for extrajudicial killing: PM Lord Eric L Avebury, chairman of the standing committee on human rig...

Meeting this morning with Sheikh Hasina

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Monday, January 31, 2011 All measures taken to stop extra-judicial killings: PM Unb, London Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday that...

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  Isabella helps to fix the Skype sound
Friday, January 28, 2011

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Thursday evening, we had a celebration of the achievements of the Kashmir International Relief Fund, in the first 25 years of its existence....

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  At the party given by Nick Clegg on Wednesday. The first time I'd been invited to Downing Street since March 1970, when Harold Wilson ...
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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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