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Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws Quotes

born 1950 Scotland

Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, LT, KC, FRSA, HonFRSE (born 12 May 1950), is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. A Bencher of Gray's Inn, she is President of Justice, the law reform think tank, and a director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.

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Sometimes they are Afghanis who have worked for us.
Sometimes they are Afghanis of a particular minority called the Hazara, who get slaughtered as soon as the Taliban look at them.

Her fearlessness in the face of grave danger made her one of the few international journalists whom human rights activists and lawyers held in awe.

This is Schindler's List time. These women were in mortal danger. They were running courts on things like domestic violence and child marriage and many of them locked up [the] Taliban. As soon as [the] Taliban came back they had to flee.

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