Eric Avebury

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Cataract

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Cataract operation on my right eye was reviewed on Wednesday and there are no problems. I am now on the list to have the left eye done....

Statement by Lord Avebury, Chairman of the International Bangladesh Foundation

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The whole world has gasped in horror at the hacking to death by machete-wielding terrorists of the secularist US-Bangladeshi blogger ...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Four years of Revolution

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Bahrainis insist on political change Press   conference held under the auspices of The Parliamentary Human Rights Group Four years ago...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Press Release - Chittagong Hill Tracts

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International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission concerned about the discriminatory and unconstitutional directives towards indigenous p...
Friday, February 13, 2015

cataract

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Up at 06.15 this morning. and after a quick cup of tea and a piece of toast, Lindsay drove me to St. Thomas's for an 07.30 appointme...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Introduction by Lord Avebury, Vice Chair, Parliamentary Human Rights Group, at a press conference on Bahrain, Fielden House, 11.00 February 10, 2014

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The price we pay for being given facilities for our aircraft carriers in Bahrain became clear when the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond s...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

My introduction to a seminar on Traveller sites on February 3 in Committee Room G

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Welcome  to this seminar, which forms part of a series organised by the Traveller Movement to address racial justice issues faced by Gy...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

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On August 15 I tweeted: Eric Avebury   @ EricAvebury  ·    On August 15 I tweeted: There's no time to lose! We need a coal...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Assisted Dying

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Yesterday evening, Lindsay and I went the the book launch of I'll See Myself Out, Thank Yo u, an anthology of short pieces about assiste...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

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Santosh Dass, President of the Federation of Ambedkarite amd Buddhist Organisations UK, with Vinod Tawade,  Minister for School  Ed...
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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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