Baroness Caroline Cox Philanthropy Journeys

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The Right Honourable Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury born July 6, 1937 was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005 and is currently a cross-bench peer Independent Member of the House of Lords.

From 1985 to 1986 she served as a Baroness-in-Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen.

On special request, Baroness Cox will advise and accompany Exquisite Safaris Philanthropic clients during high impact philanthropy journeys.

As Chief Executive of HART Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, which fosters humanitarian aid missions for suffering peoples around the world, Baroness Cox is a voice for the voiceless, advocating on behalf of HART's partners in Parliament and around the world.

She currently serves as Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She is also a strong advocate for disability causes, serving as a Member of the World Committee on Disability and a Judge for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award.

In 2004, she was appointed a Special Rapateur by the Britsh Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Religious Freedom and Belief.

Lady Cox's work in the field of humanitarian aid has taken her on many missions to conflict zones, including over 65 visits to the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh; countless visits to Africa including Sudan, Uganda and Nigeria; to the Karen, Karenni and Chin peoples in the jungles of Burma; and to communities suffering from conflict in India and Indonesia.

She has visited North Korea, helping to promote parliamentary initiatives and medical programs. In her work as a social scientist, she has been instrumental in helping to change the former Soviet Union policies for orphaned and abandoned children from institutional to foster family care.

Positions: Lady Cox's many positions include:

Chancellor: Liverpool Hope University; Bournemouth University, 1991-2001

Hon. President: Tushinskaya (Moscow) Children's Hospital Trust; Standing Conference of Women's Organisations; Dean Close School; Churches Together Highgate

Vice-President: The Royal College of Nursing of the UK; Girl Guides Association; Love Russia; UN Association - Westminster; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; St Lawrence College

Hon. Vice-Chairman: Executive Board of the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction (IICORR)

Patron: Medical Aid for Poland Fund; Premier Radio; Physicians for Human Rights, UK; Project Rachel-Romania; Columbia Childcare (UK); British School of Oesteopathy; British Association for Service to the Elderly.

Trustee: Siberian Medical University, Tomsk; Chernobyl Relief Foundation; The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation; MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International)

Director: Educational Research Trust; Andrei Sakarov Foundation

Member of Board/Advisory Council: Accident and Emergency Nursing. IUS et Lex-Poland; Emmanuel College; Project Cure; King's Fund; The Barnabas Fund; MigrationWatch

As President of the Tushinskaya Paediatric Hospital Trust, Baroness Cox worked closely with its former patron, the late Diana, Princess of Wales

Publications: Lady Cox is a prolific author, her many publications including:

A Sociology of Medical Practice (1975)

Rape of Reason: The Corruption of the Polytechnic of North London (jt au 1975)

The Right to Learn (jt au 1982)

Trajectories of Despair: Misdiagnosis and Maltreatment of Soviet Orphans (with John Eibner 1991)

Ethnic Cleansing in Progress: war in Nagorno Karabakh (1993)

Made to Care: the Case for Residential and Village Communities for People with a Mental Handicap (with M. Pearson 1995)

This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century (co-author Dr. John Marks 2006)

Islam, Islamism and the West: Is Idiological Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy (co-author Dr. John Marks 2006)

Academia:

Lady Cox is the Former Head of the Sociology Department of the University of North London, 1974-77.

Director, Nursing Education Research Unit, Chelsea College, University of London, 1977-84.

Lady Cox has been a guest lecturer at The Royal College of Defence Studies, The Joint Services Command Staff College (British Armed Forces), Oxford University, Georgetown University, Yale University, Oakland University and many other academic institutions around the world.

Decorations and Awards:

Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 1990

William Wilberforce Award, Jan. 1995

Fridtjof Nansen International Foundation Award

The International Mother Teresa Award for humanitarian work, Mar. 2005

Mkhitar Gosh Medal conferred by the President of the Republic of Armenia, Sep. 2005

Anniversary medal presented by Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland, at the 25th anniversary of the Polish Solidarity Movement, Oct. 2005

Lady Cox has received numerous awards, honors, and honorary degrees from governments, universities and NGOs from around the world.

Personal:

Lady Cox was married from 1959 to Dr. Murray Newell Cox, a forensic psychiatrist, until his passing in 1997. She has two sons, one daughter and 10 grandchildren

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