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  Sarah Ludford, Baroness Ludford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarah Ann Ludford, Baroness Ludford (born 14 March 1951) is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.
She was made a Life Peer in 1997.
This article about a Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Ludford   (169 words)

  
 Sarah Ludford - dKosopedia
Sarah Ann Ludford, Baroness Ludford is a Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Lords and the Member of the European Parliament.
Born on March 14, 1951, Ludford is a former councillor in the London Borough of Islington, and married to the current leader of the council, Ludford ran for election to the House of Commons unsuccessfully in the 1992 and 1997 general elections.
Ludford was named a Life Peer in the House of Lords in 1997 and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1999, repesenting London.
www.dkosopedia.com /w/index.php?title=Sarah_Ludford&printable=yes   (221 words)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Sarah Ludford MEP
Sarah is spokesperson for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group on the European Parliament's Justice and Home Affairs Committee.
Sarah was the European Parliament’s rapporteur for the year 2000 on anti-racism and is a Vice-President of the Parliament’s anti-racism intergroup.
Sarah is particularly involved in asylum and immigration matters, and is co-ordinator of the European Parliament’s Kurdish network and is currently vice-chair of a European Parliament temporary committee investigating CIA extraordinary rendition and allegations of “fl site” prison camps.
www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/baroness-sarah-ludford.html   (574 words)

  
 SAVE A LIFE - Foreign Prisoners Support Service
Baroness Sarah Ludford, London MEP and Liberal Democrat European justice spokeswoman, has supported Nick Baker throughout and flew to Tokyo in 2003 with Sabine Zanker of Fair Trials Abroad in the attempt to get him a fair trial.
Sarah Ludford said: "A British citizen continues to suffer a gross miscarriage of justice.
Sarah Ludford said, "These unsatisfactory events are perverting the course of justice.
www.phaseloop.com /foreignprisoners/news-japan14.html   (698 words)

  
 Sarah Ludford says, MP, in the PKK context, “Live by the ballot not the bullet” (KurdishMedia.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
London (KurdishMedia.com) 1 May 2001: Baroness Sarah Ludford, London ís Liberal Democrat MEP, who is also Co-ordinator of the Kurdish Network in the European Parliament, will tonight challenge the Government’s ban under the Terrorism Act on the Kurdish organisation the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
At a meeting in Westminster tonight Sarah Ludford will hear the results of a visit by Ann Clwyd MP, Chair of the All Party Human Rights Group to Kurdish MP Leyla Zana imprisoned by the Turkish authorities.
Sarah Ludford said, “If it is necessary to defy the Terrorism Act in order to have dialogue with those one can encourage towards peace and democracy, then so be it.
www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=1449   (364 words)

  
 Lib Dem Humanists & Secularists
Baroness (Sarah) Ludford - currently a Liberal Democrat MEP for London and formerly an Islington Councillor - told an even larger (and equally packed) audience how, through her work for local, national and European government, she had endorsed a moderately secular stance, though not a fundamentalist one.
Though confirmed in the C of E as a young teenager and still what she describes as a "cultural" Christian**, Sarah Ludford does not practice a religion, although she respects the holding of a personal faith.
Sarah Ludford had co-signed (with other British MEPs) a complaint prepared by the National Secular Society against the UK government which, in national implementing legislation, has widened the exemption even further.
www.cix.co.uk /~sldweb/humanists/meeting0503.htm   (769 words)

  
 Cheney, Rumsfeld could testify in EU probe - Boston.com
"Very senior people" would be asked to answer the allegations of human rights violations on EU territory, said Sarah Ludford, vice president of an investigation into the alleged prisons being conducted by the European Parliament.
"Very senior people" would be asked to answer the allegations of human rights violations on EU territory, said Sarah Ludford, vice president of an investigation into the alleged prisons being conducted by the parliament.
Ludford, a British Liberal Democrat party member, acknowledged that the parliament had no legal power to subpoena them.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/01/26/cheney_rumsfeld_could_testify_in_eu_probe   (844 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Peer calls for fair trial in Japan
Baroness Ludford has travelled to Japan with a lawyer from Fair Trials Abroad to highlight the case of Nicholas Baker who is due to be sentenced in a fortnight.
Baroness Ludford said his story could be checked if evidence was called from Belgium where his travelling companion was arrested and is facing trial on similar charges.
She called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to raise the case with his Japanese counterpart Junichiro Koizumi when they both attend the G8 summit of world leaders in France this weekend.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2942990.stm   (364 words)

  
 Panthic Weekly: Liberal Democrat Euro-MP supports Sikh campaigners
Sarah, who is European justice spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats, was dismayed at the security problems encountered by Sikh visitors to the European Parliament building due to the wearing of the kirpan.
Sarah also took up in her remarks the need for the Indian government to address human rights abuses in India against Sikhs.
She has signed a European Parliament written declaration calling for greater EU pressure on India to stop the oppressive treatment of political activists and is concerned about the case of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who faces the death penalty on the basis of a confession extracted under torture.
www.panthic.org /news/124/ARTICLE/2550/2006-06-18.html   (490 words)

  
 Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Baroness Sarah Ludford is supporting a European Parliament declaration (similar to a Westminster early day motion) calling on Europe's car hire industry to either shape up or face EU consumer protection regulation.
London's Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Baroness Sarah Ludford is urging an end to the European import of seal furs and skins which fuel the often cruel commercial slaughter of very young seals.
London's Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford has welcomed the judgement in favour of British couple Mr and Mrs Orams in their fight to keep their holiday home in northern Cyprus.
www.sarahludfordmep.org.uk   (739 words)

  
 Compolitics: TwoElectionExperiences
The first time she lost to Lib-Dem Sarah Ludford by less than a hundred votes at the time of the Lib-Dem breakthrough in the area in 1994.
Subsequently Sarah Ludford was elevated to the peerage, becoming 'Baronness Ludford of Clerkenwell'.
In October 1999 Sarah Ludford, who had since beBaroness Ludford stood down to devote herself to European politics as an MEP, and a by-election was called.
www.nooranch.com /compolitics/wiki.cgi?action=browse&diff=1&id=TwoElectionExperiences   (3437 words)

  
 Sarah re-selected by Brent Lib Dems (London Liberal Democrats)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Local Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather has been unanimously re-selected by Brent Liberal Democrats to fight the next General Election.
Sarah has an impressive record as a local MP.
Sarah Teather lets the people of Brent have their say about the state of their area
www.libdems4london.org.uk /news/245.html   (396 words)

  
 Liberal Democrat MEPs in the European Parliament News (Nottingham Liberal Democrats)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
London's Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Baroness Sarah Ludford is demanding an end to the secrecy surrounding EU action on UK breach of European clean water laws as regards the River Thames and sewage.
London's Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford, a leading campaigner against the abuses of compulsory acquisition and penalties suffered by British homeowners in Spain, has joined other Euro-MPs in asking the European Commissioner for Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou to examine ways to help people building or buying property in other EU member states.
Liberal Democrat European Justice Spokeswoman Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP today warned that the EU's chances of achieving effective action on immigration are being severely hampered by both legal complexity and a lack of political will by member states.
www.nottinghamlibdems.org.uk /news/external/2.html?PHPSESSID=a5eb04587fdd295aafbbc920b5eb9537   (813 words)

  
 EU Referendum
It certainly has had no effect on Members of the European Parliament, who are continuing to call for all sorts of sanctions on countries that may or may not (the evidence is weak, to put it mildly) have collaborated with the CIA in the war against terror.
One particularly vociferous MEP has been the Lib-Dim Sarah Ludford, who is also a member of the House of Lords, where she manages not to declare her extremely handsome income from the European Parliament when she speaks on EU matters.
According to Reuter’s, Baroness Ludford was one of those calling on individual member states, the British Presidency and the Commission to hold a huge enquiry into allegations about CIA prisons in some European countries and about terrors suspects being flown out from certain European airports.
eureferendum.blogspot.com /2005/12/chinese-walls.html   (1097 words)

  
 ALG European Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the morning, the group met London MEP Sarah Ludford, who talked to the students about her life as an MEP.
The pupils then quizzed Baroness Ludford on a range of controversial issues – the possibility of a referendum on the future constitution, the Iraq War, EU-US relations and immigration in London post-EU enlargement.
Sarah Ludford later commented that she found the session highly “refreshing and enjoyable”.
www.alg-europe.gov.uk /EuroNews/Camden6thFormers.htm   (228 words)

  
 Justice for Nick Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
BBC National Radio 4 Woman's Hour Discussion October 15 2003 Iris and Member of European Parliament the Baroness Sarah Ludford in a 10 minute discussion of Nick's case.
Baroness Sarah Ludford July 16 2003 The Baroness demands "Blair must act" and asks in a letter to the British PM, whether Nick's plight will be raised with his counterpart in Japan, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, upon a forthcoming official visit
Baroness Sarah Ludford The Baroness is an English Member of the European Parliament.
www.justicefornickbaker.org /en/media.htm   (1049 words)

  
 LtrLudford040608En: FFII Wiki
In an answer to worried questions on software patents, Sarah Ludford of the Liberal Democrats says the Libdems will see to it that "only" new software can be patented and that these patents do not cover the software as such (huh?).
The answer is similar to those of Labour and Conservatives in its attempt to appease the feeling about software patents while still in fact vowing to give the patent lobby everything it wants.
Yours sincerely Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP Liberal Democrat MEP for London
wiki.ffii.org /LtrLudford040608En   (836 words)

  
 TRNC Public Information Office
EUROPEAN MP'S IN British MP and member of the Group for the Association of European Liberals and Democrats, Baroness Sarah Ludford and Islington Liberal Democrats MP, Meral Ece, arrived in the TRNC on 4 February for various contacts with TRNC officials.
Speaking during her meeting with Prime Minister Talat, Baroness Ludford pointing out that her visit was to show support for the Turkish Cypriots, said she has always supported a Cyprus settlement and the island's reunification.
Speaking after visiting the TRNC Chamber of Commerce, Baroness Ludford, expressing concern that progress on the direct financial aid and trade regulations was slow in Brussels, said after the Turkish Cypriots 'yes' vote in the referendum, the positive effects of this should have continued in Europe, unfortunately this wasn't realized and was a great injustice.
www.trncinfo.com /TANITMADAIRESI/ARSIV2005/ENGLISHarcive/FEBRUARY/070205.htm   (640 words)

  
 ALG European Service - London's MEPs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Baroness Ludford is a full member of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, and a substitute member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.
She is also Vice-Chair of the Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners.
She was a councillor for Islington from 1991 – 1999, and has also worked in the European Commission.
www.alg-europe.gov.uk /MEPSLibDem.htm   (97 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | The Euroblog
June 4, Lib Dem Sarah Ludford: When you vote Lib Dem you vote for half a century of consistent, pro-European ideology.
May 20, Lib Dem Sarah Ludford: You know your own party is going places when you're the one all the others are trying to beat.
Sarah is spokeswoman on justice and home affairs for the European Liberal Democrat group and takes a strong interest in asylum and human rights.
politics.guardian.co.uk /euroblog/0,,1211960,00.html   (1627 words)

  
 Illegal entry into the Republic of Cyprus
Baroness Sarah Ludford's illegal entry into the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus also constitutes a serious violation of the European Parliament's own Codes of conduct; specifically Rule 9 and Annex XI of the 'Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament' and Section II.
Baroness Sarah Ludford was fully aware that she was engaging in an illegal act in violation of EU Law and the Laws of the Republic of Cyprus since she stated to journalists that she regretted that her illegal flight had to stop over in Turkey before entering the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus.
At any point during this time when she was aware what she was doing was illegal she could have stepped off the plane and returned home.
www.btinternet.com /~argyros.argyrou/cyprus/Ludford.htm   (494 words)

  
 Baha'i World News Service - Promoting social harmony in Europe
She said that Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, "warned of the dangers of unconstrained nationalism and called for a system of global governance, which has led Baha'is to be particular supporters of the United Nations."
Baroness Ludford (center) with Ronald Mayer, the ambassador of Luxembourg to the Council of Europe and the European Parliament (left) and Ulrich Bohner, chief executive of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (right).
Baroness Ludford with Michael Gahler (right), a German member of the European Parliament, and Baha'i representatives Barney Leith (left) and Daniel Wheatley (second from right).
www.bahaiworldnews.org /story.cfm?storyid=278   (974 words)

  
 A Statement by Sarah Teather MP for the Protestors Outside the French Embassy (Brent Liberal Democrats and Sarah ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A Statement by Sarah Teather MP for the Protestors Outside the French Embassy
My colleague Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP said "As a feminist and a liberal I am fighting for people to be able to do what they have freely chosen."
Statement from Sarah Teather MP following the Earthquake in Kashmir.
www.brentlibdems.org.uk /articles/5.html   (664 words)

  
 Crossing Borders: Speaker Biographies
Sarah Joseph is a Consultant on Islamic Affairs - exploring issues with, and providing diversity training to, employment, education, health bodies etc on the beliefs and needs of Muslims in the UK.
Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP is London's Liberal Democrat Euro-MP and a life peer.
She is spokeswoman on justice and home affairs for the European Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament (Citizens' Rights' Committee) She is also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights committee, vice-president of the EP delegation to South-East Europe and member of the Cyprus joint parliamentary committee.
www.blink.org.uk /borders/biogs.htm   (3525 words)

  
 Edward Davey MP - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Baroness Sarah Ludford, Liberal Democrat MEP for London, is campaigning to save taxpayers £100 million each year by streamlining the European Parliament's operations.
The move to meet only in one place would end the "travelling circus" by which European MPs and more than 2,000 parliamentary staff are obliged to meet for three weeks each month in Brussels and one week in Strasbourg, some 300 miles away.
All that remains is for the 15 EU Governments to see reason, reverse their previous bad decisions and make the necessary reforms.
www.cix.co.uk /~ldsk/voice16.htm   (124 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Ludford: No time to sit on the fence
Ludford: No time to sit on the fence
He has willingly become hostage to the far right of the Conservative Party, in his "Not now, not ever' stance towards the European single currency.
Sarah Ludford is a Liberal Democrat peer, MEP for London and the party's European Parliament group spokeswoman on justice and home affairs.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/827308.stm   (839 words)

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