Shami Chakrabarti

Profile: Full name: Shami Chakrabarti Area of interest: Human right and civil liberties Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Shami Chakrabarti Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: Education: London School of Economics: Law Career: see staff profile (Liberty) Current position/role: Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: 'Liberty is about more than just one woman', The director of Liberty is as passionate – and optimistic – as the day she took up her job. Robert Chesshyre meets her. The Independent, 6th June 2011 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: see Andy Burnham controversy (Wikipedia) Burnham's Chakrabarti comments have been misread - There is a startling headline on the front of today's Daily Mail, one I have never seen in over 30 years of regular morning reading (this may be why I have to take pills for high blood pressure). "Stop being so miserable!" it tells browbeaten readers like me - Michael White, The Guardian, 20th June 2008 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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Journals: Asbo facelift won't protect the vulnerable - The asbo is dead – but a brace of souped-up new jargon is no shortcut to solving the problem of antisocial behaviour - 23rd May 2012 Our human rights are not a fad. We don't need this Botox bill - Replacing the Human Rights Act could lead to a permanent constitutional revolution rather than a statement of basic values - 14th November 2011 Warning: anti-justice stomach bug spreading - Politicians’ complaints about unelected judges and inoffensive human rights laws are unbecoming – and dishonest - 21st February 2011 This injustice over control orders must stop - Conservative voices defending control orders forget how fiercely their own party fought detention without trial - 7th January 2011 Will Theresa be caught by the securocrats? - Deportation is no substitute for a fair trial. The coalition must stop this un-British practice - 19th May 2010 Freedom must apply to all faiths and none - The Christian’s right to wear a cross must be defended as fiercely as any other religious liberty - 19th January 2010 Lib Dems must defend human rights - The Tories are wrong, we shouldn't scrap the Human Rights Act, it remains our best defence against injustice - 22nd September 2009 Why no respect for the presumption of innocence? - Despite the Government’s attempts to spin the DNA database issue, the Big Brother state is very much alive - 8th May 2009 One cheer for Blunkett on ID cards - In fairness to the former Godfather of this folly, old habits die hard - 30th April 2009 Our freedoms are not frothy skinny lattes - The Damian Green affair and the disastrous fallout from the G20 protests show how our liberties have been compromised - 18th April 2009 (see also: Liberty director was target in police search, The Times, 18th April 2009) The fight that is never done - The letter that launched Britain's leading civil liberties group inspires another, 75 years later - 24th February 2009 In 2009, the fight for liberty is about to go up a gear - The courageous tone set by the US president must serve to inspire us in the struggle to defend the Human Rights Act here - 22nd January 2009 Taking liberties with the law - Britain's justice secretary, Jack Straw, has become the master of mindless authoritarianism - 8th December 2008 Why I'm defending the shock-jock who branded me ‘dangerous’ - He once called her "the most dangerous woman in Britain", but Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti is now pushing for sacked shock-jock Jon Gaunt to be reinstated - 27th November 2008 On 42 days, their lordships were glorious - The rejection of Labour's proposal for detention without charge was a victory for human rights and common sense in parliament - 14th October 2008 Of dignity and equality - What liberty means to me: The basis of a just society is that human rights must be extended to everyone, without conditions - 7th July 2008 Law and principle are lost in the crazy politics of 42 days - Detention without charge tramples rights won over centuries. Labour MPs must resist prolonging it just for party posturing - 6th June 2008 Who's listening? - How can our privacy rights be protected when new legislation on surveillance is constantly cobbled together? - 21st February 2008 Conviction politics - Of course, vested interests in secret surveillance oppose the use of intercept evidence in court. It brings their activities under legal scrutiny - 6th February 2008 So much for habeas corpus - Make no mistake: these new powers to detain suspects for six weeks trash centuries of British justice and shame us in the eyes of the world - 24th January 2008 Liberty begins at home - British moral authority is hurt by failure to practise what is preached to the world on human rights - 8th January 2008

News & updates: Liberty director was target in police search - The Times, 18th April 2009

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