Baroness Cox

Baroness Caroline Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and has been Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom since 1985. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University from 1991-2001 and is Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. Her international humanitarian work includes serving as non-executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, trustee of MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International), and the Siberian Medical University and Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust). Baroness Cox has been honored with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Wilberforce Award for her humanitarian work. She has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the UK, the US, the Russian Federation and Armenia. Baroness Cox's humanitarian work has taken her on several missions to conflict zones, including Armenia, the Sudan, Nigeria, the Burmese jungles and Indonesia. She recently visited North Korea, to help promote parliamentary initiatives and medical programs and has been instrumental in helping change policies for orphaned and abandoned children in the Former Soviet Union.

About Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

Last year the UCI Center for Unconventional Security Affairs held the first Human Security Summit, featuring a keynote address by anti-landmine activist Heather Mills McCartney. Due to the enthusiastic response to the event and the growing concern for global human security, the Center created the Coalition Advocating Human Security (CAHS). The purpose of this coalition is to undertake research, provide education to our students and promote public awareness to our community.

As a follow up to last year’s program focusing on the landmine issue, CAHS will be presenting a symposium in November that will concentrate on the issue of Women and Human Security. As an introduction to the symposium and CAHS, we have invited Baroness Caroline Cox to speak to us on April 19th about her humanitarian efforts, which have taken her to remote locations around the world to give “voice to the voiceless”. Baroness Cox has spent her life acting on behalf of human rights. On many occasions she has illegally crossed borders to see firsthand "man’s inhumanity to man." She has repeatedly entered the “no-go” areas of southern Sudan, visited the ancient Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh during the height of its war with Azerbaijan, and crossed the border from Thailand into Burma to visit the besieged Karen people. Her advocacy has brought public attention to people who would have suffered silently without her continuous efforts.

We are proud to be able to invite to you to listen and exchange ideas with the Baroness Caroline Cox. Her firsthand knowledge of communities experiencing terrorism and brutality will provide an excellent introduction to the topic CAHS is pursuing this year – Women and Human Security. We hope you will be able to join us Tuesday, April 19th at the Center Club for an informative lunch about the work at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, the vulnerable world around us, and the possibilities for solutions.

For more information about this event, please call 949/824-8804 or e-mail cusa@uci.edu.

This event was held at The Center Club

650 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

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