Mulberry Conference 2009
Thursday April 2nd

Asad Rehman has been a voice of progressive activism in the UK for over 20 years. Asad worked for over ten years campaigning for Amnesty International, and was one of  the founders of the ‘Stop The War’ coalition. He is also Chair of Newham Monitoring Project, the UK’s oldest community based anti-racist organisation, and has been an advocate for the family of Jean-Charles de Menezes
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Gareth Peirce (born c. 1940) is one of Britain’s best known Civil Rights lawyers.. She is noted for taking on controversial cases, including high profile human rights issues. Her clients include the Birmingham Six, the Tipton Three, the Guildford Four, former MI5 operative David Shayler, Abu Qatada ,Judith Ward, Mouloud Sihali, the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, Mozzam Begg and Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi, a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.        Read more about Gareth Peirce

Deborah Finding is a researcher at the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics. She works on the representation of sexual violence in music, and has also published more widely on issues of gender and sexuality in the media. Prior to this, Deborah was the team leader for the POPPY Project, the first government-funded project in the UK to help women trafficked into the country for prostitution. Read more about Deborah Finding