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  European Development Cooperation to 2010: Reshaping European Partnerships - ACP
Glenys Kinnock had recently returned from attending the WTO ministerial meeting in Cancún, where she had observed a remarkable purpose and solidarity among the ACP countries.
Glenys Kinnock believed that this rich history should not and would not be bargained away.
Glenys Kinnock argued strongly that the solidarity of the ACP should be preserved.
www.odi.org.uk /speeches/edc_2010/meeting_report_17september.html   (1197 words)

  
  Glenys Kinnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock (born July 7, 1944) is a Welsh politician.
Glenys Kinnock, née Parry, has been a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament since 1994, and was known before that for being the supportive wife of Neil Kinnock.
Kinnock represents Wales in the European Parliament and is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenys_Kinnock   (381 words)

  
 Neil Kinnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kinnock was responsible for many of the reforms to the party which were built upon by John Smith and Tony Blair until Labour was elected in 1997.
Kinnock supported the aim of the strike - which he famously dubbed the "case for coal" - but, as an MP from a mining area, was bitterly critical of the tactics employed.
Kinnock also scored hits on Margaret Thatcher in the Commons - previously an area in which he was seen as weak - and finally Conservative MPs voted to remove Thatcher as their leader, after disagreements with her on Europe and the Poll Tax, installing John Major.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neil_Kinnock   (1890 words)

  
 Glenys Kinnock - MEP
Born in 1944, Glenys Kinnock was educated at Holyhead Comprehensive School and graduated from the University of Wales College Cardiff in education and history.
Glenys was elected to the European Parliament in 1994 and re-elected in 1999 and 2004.
Mrs Kinnock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales College Newport, the University of Wales Bangor and holds Honorary Doctorates from Thames Valley University, Brunel University and Kingston University.
www.welshlabourmeps.org.uk /gk/gk_biog.htm   (214 words)

  
 BBC News | WALES | Glenys Kinnock: Globetrotting campaigner
Glenys Kinnock is one of Britain's most high-profile members of the European Parliament.
The mother of two grown-up children, with a lifetime of political campaigning behind her, Mrs Kinnock was never afraid to speak her mind during her husband's period in charge of the Labour Party.
Glenys Kinnock trapped in coup (06 Jun 00
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/779603.stm   (312 words)

  
 Glenys Kinnock MEP Attacks Government Over "No-Torture" Deals | Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of ...
Glenys Kinnock MEP Attacks Government Over "No-Torture" Deals
Glenys Kinnock, MEPGlenys Kinnock, a Member of the European Parliament and MF Patron, has criticised the Government's signing of "no torture" deals with regimes guilty of widespread human rights abuses to facilitate the removal of Islamic militants regarded as security risks from Britain.
Glenys Kinnock is MEP for Wales, Labour's European spokesperson for international development and co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States - EU joint parliamentary assembly.
www.torturecare.org.uk /news/latest_news/299   (717 words)

  
 Glenys Kinnock 'one of 30 MEPs in Brussels expenses row' - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Glenys Kinnock 'one of 30 MEPs in Brussels expenses row'
Glenys 'one of 30 MEPs in Brussels expenses row'
Glenys Kinnock was today embroiled in a row over Euro MPs who face accusations they exploit a generous expenses system run by Brussels.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=129538   (952 words)

  
 Guardian | The power and the glory
The third year of Masding's course in European Studies with French is spent abroad, and since September she has been working as PA to Glenys Kinnock, MEP for Wales, based at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Glenys doesn't speak much of the language, and I'll translate." The problems faced by developing nations are of special importance to Kinnock.
Kinnock spends three weeks a month in Brussels, and the fourth at the Parliament's other seat in Strasbourg: "Each MEP has a large metal trunk.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3938439-8226,00.html   (597 words)

  
 Suspend use of DU shells, says Glenys Kinnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Glenys Kinnock, one of Labour´s most senior and best-known MEPs, has called on the Government to suspend use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions, saying Nato´s safety assurances have not convinced the public.
Mrs Kinnock and six other Labour MEPs defied the party´s official line and supported a call in the European Parliament on Wednesday for a suspension of the use of DU munitions pending further research.
Mrs Kinnock said she was concerned both about reports of the so-called "Balkan syndrome" among servicemen and about the threats to health in Bosnia and Kosovo.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/jan01/hed2464.shtml   (327 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | 'Anti-European' Geldof criticised
Glenys Kinnock said Europe was the biggest donor of aid to Africa
Mrs Kinnock told BBC Wales the singer refused to acknowledge the European Union's commitment to aid for Africa, and its efforts to develop fair trade.
Mrs Kinnock said a major recent breakthrough was "the agreement of 25 member states of the European Union when they decided they would put in the amounts needed to meet the UN targets".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/4657501.stm   (405 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Glenys Kinnock, MEP and wife of the former leader Neil, used a speech to mock life and living according to the prominent New Labour supporter Delia Smith.
Mrs Kinnock also praised Mrs Blair for raising a family, being a wife, and reaching the top of her legal profession.
However, her spokesman said: "If Glenys Kinnock wants to use an old and partly inaccurate e-mail doing the rounds as a basis for a speech on International Women's Day that is her prerogative.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/12/ndelia12.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/12/ixhome.html   (611 words)

  
 Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
Kinnock said the group of 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are feeling "increasingly marginalised and neglected", and in Hong Kong "they will argue for better market access and for a recognition that their share of international trade is so small, in most cases, as to be irrelevant."
Kinnock says the ACP countries share a "crucial and common concern" arising from their heavy dependence on European markets for the export of their agricultural commodities.
Kinnock says she will spend a great deal of time between her ACP contacts and European negotiators..
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=31347   (770 words)

  
 Trades Union Congress - Glenys Kinnock MEP joins Senior Trade Unionists in Wales to marks International Womens' Day.
Glenys Kinnock MEP joins Senior Trade Unionists in Wales to marks International Womens' Day.
Glenys Kinnock MEP will be the guest speaker at a lunch to mark International Womens’ Day in Wales.
Glenys Kinnock MEP said ' "International Women's Day is a chance for us to reflect upon the fact that nowhere in the world can women claim to have the same rights and opportunities as men.
www.tuc.org.uk /equality/tuc-4531-f0.cfm   (359 words)

  
 BBC - North West Wales History - Glenys Kinnock supports Parys Mountain Amlwch Port
Glenys Kinnock, a Member of the European Parliament born and bred in Holyhead, returned to Anglesey to tell us why Amlwch Port and Parys Mountain should be restored.
Glenys explained why she backed this Restoration bid: "The painted desert landscape of the mountain is breathtakingly beautiful and the little port where sailing ships were built has a long and colourful history.
I remember young Glenys Parry as she was when I lived in Holyhead.
bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/glenyskinnockshtml.shtml   (986 words)

  
 Glenys Kinnock - MEP
Welsh MEP Glenys Kinnock has been named Development MEP of the Year at a prestigious award ceremony in Brussels.
The Labour Euro-MP was nominated for the Parliament Magazine award for her work as Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and as the European Parliament's rapporteur on the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Glenys was nominated for the honour by NGOs and not-for-profit organisations.
www.welshlabourmeps.org.uk /gk/gk_press/pmaward12.10.05.htm   (253 words)

  
 BBC - North West Wales History - Glenys Kinnock supports Parys Mountain Amlwch Port
Glenys Kinnock, a Member of the European Parliament born and bred in Holyhead, returned to Anglesey to tell us why Amlwch Port and Parys Mountain should be restored.
Glenys explained why she backed this Restoration bid: "The painted desert landscape of the mountain is breathtakingly beautiful and the little port where sailing ships were built has a long and colourful history.
I remember young Glenys Parry as she was when I lived in Holyhead.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/glenyskinnockshtml.shtml   (997 words)

  
 EU parliamentarian warns of Caribbean poverty if sugar price cut approved - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kinnock and her six-member delegation departed for Jamaica Sunday, another of the Caribbean's major sugar exporters to Europe, after wrapping up a three-day visit to Guyana where they got a first-hand view about the widespread impact that such a sugar-cut would have on the livelihoods of thousands of Guyanese.
She and fellow member of the European Parliament, Michael Gahler plan to tell EU trade chief Peter Mandelson that if the proposed price-cut is approved, Guyana's socio-economic condition would be severely threatened.
Kinnock predicted that the price-cut would end up being 30 percent over four years, rather than her counter-proposal of 25 percent over the next four years.
www.eubusiness.com /Agri/051017003413.8pcou3jj   (488 words)

  
 The Burma Campaign UK: Glenys Kinnock MEP to Join Protest at Burmese Embassy Today
The protest is being organised by Burmese exiles in London, the Burmese Democratic Movement and Free Burma Coalition.
Glenys Kinnock MEP said: "The massacre and the continuing and rising levels of repression in Burma, along with the failure of the regime to respond to UN mediation, demands an urgent response from the UN Security Council.
It is time for targeted UN sanctions banning arms and investment to Burma, and banning the export of Burmese oil, gas, timber, gems and garments.
www.burmacampaign.org.uk /pm/more.php?id=48_0_1_0_M   (200 words)

  
 University Of Ulster News Release - Glenys Kinnock Delivers Joyce McCartan Memorial Lecture at University of Ulster
Mrs Glenys Kinnock, MEP today gave the annual Joyce McCartan Memorial Lecture at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
Speaking to an invited audience containing many of Northern Ireland’s key opinion formers, Mrs Kinnock took as her theme womens’ struggle for equality throughout the world.
Mrs Kinnock was welcomed to the Jordanstown campus by its Provost, Mrs Ann Tate.
news.ulster.ac.uk /releases/2000/221.html   (198 words)

  
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Mrs Kinnock and her Labour colleagues showed the most flagrant disregard for the interests of the Welsh people and for Welsh public opinion.
I am appalled by Mrs Kinnock's betrayal during the vote in parliament - she must explain her actions to the Welsh people who have consistently shown massive support for the principle of a GM free Wales.
Of particular relevance to Wales were points on the need for common, legally binding EU rules on co-existence, clear rules on liability, following the polluter-pays-principle, very low thresholds for labelling "adventitious and technically unavoidable" contamination of seeds with GM varieties and in particular the right of regions in the EU to declare themselves GM free.
www.connectotel.com /gmfood/pc191203.txt   (401 words)

  
 Sunday Mirror: Glenys Kinnock's column: Little Johanna is birthday Neil's guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Glenys Kinnock's column: Little Johanna is birthday Neil's guardian
Sunday Mirror, Apr 1, 2001 by Glenys Kinnock
IT WAS Neil's 59th birthday last Wednesday and his staff arranged a surprise party in the office.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010401/ai_n14524981   (218 words)

  
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Adoption of draft agenda PE 286.801 Speakers: Nelly Maes, Francisca Sauquillo Pérez del Arco, Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk, Jürgen Zimmerling, Glenys Kinnock, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Concepció Ferrer, John Alexander Corrie, Generoso Andria, Yasmine Boudjenah, Karin Junker and the chairman.
Action against anti-personnel landmines: greater contribution by the EU (communication and regulation) ***I T06740 - (COD000062 - COM(00)0111 - C5-0158/00) Draftsman: Luisa Morgantini Exchange of views Speakers: the draftsman, Nelly Maes, Glenys Kinnock, Margrietus J. van den Berg, Lone Dybkjaer, Vice-Chairman, took the chair John Bowis Joaquim Miranda took the chair and the chairman.
Glenys Kinnock said the matter should be raised with Commissioner Nielson, as should that of the Solomon Islands.
www.europarl.eu.int /meetdocs/committees/deve/20010305/411581EN.doc   (1048 words)

  
 University of Ulster Online - News Release
Mrs Glenys Kinnock, MEP today gave the annual Joyce McCartan Memorial Lecture at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
Speaking to an invited audience containing many of Northern Ireland’s key opinion formers, Mrs Kinnock took as her theme womens’ struggle for equality throughout the world.
Mrs Kinnock was welcomed to the Jordanstown campus by its Provost, Mrs Ann Tate.
www.ulster.ac.uk /news/releases/2000/221.html   (183 words)

  
 Commitment issues from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
The embattled global trade talks in Hong Kong stagger on as developing countries continue to press for development issues to be front-loaded in the agenda, writes Glenys Kinnock.
Glenys Kinnock is blogging from the WTO summit all week.
This post was last changed at 11:20 AM, December 14 2005, at a time when the top headline on Guardian Unlimited was Spy agencies linked to CIA flights, and the top headline from the BBC was Anger as 7 July inquiry rejected, and there were posts elsewhere tagged with these same keywords:
blogs.guardian.co.uk /news/archives/2005/12/14/commitment_issues.html   (878 words)

  
 Glenys Kinnock
> Honorary Graduates > 1996 > Glenys Kinnock
After starting her career as a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools, Glenys Kinnock was elected to the European Parliament in 1994.
Glenys Kinnock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is married to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, now Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty.
www.brunel.ac.uk /about/hongrads/1996/kinnock   (144 words)

  
 European Parliamentary Labour Party: Labour MEPs: Glenys Kinnock MEP
European Parliamentary Labour Party: Labour MEPs: Glenys Kinnock MEP
Glenys Kinnock MEP represents Wales and is the President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific States.
Kinnock in plea for Education For All - 30 January 2007
www.eurolabour.org.uk /topics/2041.html   (218 words)

  
 Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales): Glenys Kinnock backs campaign against internet paedophilia; STRASBOURG: Euro-MPs vote ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales): Glenys Kinnock backs campaign against internet paedophilia; STRASBOURG: Euro-MPs vote for network of child-pornography monitoring centres to be set up across the EU.(News)@ HighBeam Research
Glenys Kinnock backs campaign against internet paedophilia; STRASBOURG: Euro-MPs vote for network of child-pornography monitoring centres to be set up across the EU.(News)
IN response to the danger of paedophiles using the internet to trap their victims, Glenys Kinnock has joined other Euro-MPs in backing a campaign for EU-wide action to clamp down on the growth of internet paedophilia.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:84831044&refid=ink_tptd_np   (179 words)

  
 Show them the money from Guardian Unlimited: News blog
Another day of endless speeches before the late night convening of the "big boys on the block" in the green room, where they continue with their haggling and horse trading, writes Glenys Kinnock.
But they certainly need convincing that their presence here is really worth it.
My partner and I would love that you write back or maybe bang a few heads together over there, it would be mavelous to know that Glenys was getting to the bottom of the situation.
blogs.guardian.co.uk /news/archives/2005/12/15/show_them_the_money.html   (1591 words)

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