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Baroness Helena Kennedy will deliver the opening Edinburgh Lecture of the 2009 series on 1st October 2009 at 6pm in Edinburgh City Chambers. The theme for 2009/10 is ‘Making Scotland', which embraces a number of notable anniversaries including the centenary of the Women's Suffrage Procession in Edinburgh. The series will focus on how physical, political, commercial and cultural issues shape our country and its people and Scotland's role on the global stage.
Baroness Kennedy chairs POWER2010 and she has been invited by Gude Cause to talk about this newly formed project. Launched this September to identify reforms that will change the way we do politics in this country, PROJECT 2010 has its roots in the Power Inquiry in 2005 - the biggest ever inquiry into Britain's democracy.
"We are delighted and honoured that Baroness Kennedy has accepted our offer to open this series of the Edinburgh Lectures in support of Gude Cause. There are many parallels to be drawn between the aims of POWER 2010 and those of Gude Cause in celebrating women's contribution to democracy in Scotland over the past 100 years and raising awareness of issues of what still needs to be done to achieve full citizenship and equality for everyone." Helen Kay, Gude Cause Co-ordinator
Baroness Helena Kennedy (QC) is a campaigning lawyer, acting for those who have little voice within the system, and seeking reform for those who do not get justice. She has been involved in many prominent cases,including cases arising out of the new wave of terrorism, notably the TransAtlantic Airline Bomb Plot which finished very recently. She undertakes judicial review, public inquiries and sex discrimination work and has acted for many battered women who have killed their husbands. As a life peer, she also participates in the House of Lords on issues concerned with human rights, civil liberties, social justice and culture. www.helenakennedy.co.uk
This Edinburgh Lecture is one of many Gude Cause events in the run-up to the commemorative Procession on 10th October 2009. www.gudecause.org.uk
Gude Cause was formed to remember the 1909 suffrage procession in Edinburgh when women were not only working for universal suffrage, but seeing that as one way of putting peace on the agenda. The Gude Cause committee of twelve are in the final stages of preparations for the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Women's Suffrage Procession. Around 4,000 people will take part in the procession from Bruntsfield Links to Calton Hill on Saturday10th October 2009 starting at 1.00pm.
On the eve of 2007 Scottish election, a women's procession along Princes Street was hastily organised as part of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre's effort to encourage the women voters we needed to secure for a Parliament that would be sympathetic to the Peace Movement. This was the seed which saw Gude Cause launched in the Scottish Parliament, ably chaired by Joyce McMillan in October 2008.
For information on The Edinburgh Lectures 2009-10 programme visit www.edinburghlectures.org
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Baroness Helena Kennedy launches The Edinburgh Lectures
Baroness Helena Kennedy will deliver the opening Edinburgh Lecture of the 2009 series on 1st October 2009 at 6pm in Edinburgh City Chambers. The theme for 2009/10 is ‘Making Scotland', which embraces a number of notable anniversaries including the centenary of the Women's Suffrage Procession in Edinburgh. The series will focus on how physical, political, commercial and cultural issues shape our country and its people and Scotland's role on the global stage. Baroness Kennedy chairs POWER2010 and she has been invited by Gude Cause to talk about this newly formed project. Launched this September to identify reforms that will change the way we do politics in this country, PROJECT 2010 has its roots in the Power Inquiry in 2005 - the biggest ever inquiry into Britain's democracy.
"We are delighted and honoured that Baroness Kennedy has accepted our offer to open this series of the Edinburgh Lectures in support of Gude Cause. There are many parallels to be drawn between the aims of POWER 2010 and those of Gude Cause in celebrating women's contribution to democracy in Scotland over the past 100 years and raising awareness of issues of what still needs to be done to achieve full citizenship and equality for everyone." Helen Kay, Gude Cause Co-ordinator
Baroness Helena Kennedy (QC) is a campaigning lawyer, acting for those who have little voice within the system, and seeking reform for those who do not get justice. She has been involved in many prominent cases,including cases arising out of the new wave of terrorism, notably the TransAtlantic Airline Bomb Plot which finished very recently. She undertakes judicial review, public inquiries and sex discrimination work and has acted for many battered women who have killed their husbands. As a life peer, she also participates in the House of Lords on issues concerned with human rights, civil liberties, social justice and culture. www.helenakennedy.co.uk
This Edinburgh Lecture is one of many Gude Cause events in the run-up to the commemorative Procession on 10th October 2009. www.gudecause.org.uk
Gude Cause was formed to remember the 1909 suffrage procession in Edinburgh when women were not only working for universal suffrage, but seeing that as one way of putting peace on the agenda. The Gude Cause committee of twelve are in the final stages of preparations for the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Women's Suffrage Procession. Around 4,000 people will take part in the procession from Bruntsfield Links to Calton Hill on Saturday10th October 2009 starting at 1.00pm.
On the eve of 2007 Scottish election, a women's procession along Princes Street was hastily organised as part of the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre's effort to encourage the women voters we needed to secure for a Parliament that would be sympathetic to the Peace Movement. This was the seed which saw Gude Cause launched in the Scottish Parliament, ably chaired by Joyce McMillan in October 2008.
For information on The Edinburgh Lectures 2009-10 programme visit www.edinburghlectures.org
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