Claude Moraes
| Claude Moraes MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for London |
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| Assumed office 15 July 1999 |
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| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Dundee |
Claude Moraes is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament for London since 1999. He is also the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the European Parliament.
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Background[edit]
Claude Ajit Moraes is of Indian origin. He grew up in Scotland, having moved to the UK with his parents at the age of four from India. He studied Scots law,English Law, Government & Administrative Law and International Law at the University of Dundee, London University (Birkbeck College) and the London School of Economics.[citation needed]
Previous Work[edit]
Prior to becoming an MEP, he attained a national profile as director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants - a UK based independent legal NGO specialising in refugee and migration issues. Moraes was also a Commissioner for Racial Equality and became a regular media commentator and campaigner on migration issues. He also helped organise legal challenges in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and in Europe.
Before his NGO work he was House of Commons researcher to John Reid MP and Paul Boateng MP, and was a national officer at the TUC and a representative to the European TUC. He was also a previous Council member of Liberty.
He has published on migration and human rights issues and is a co-author of the Politics of Migration (Blackwells) and The EU After the Treaty of Lisbon (Cambridge University Press).[citation needed]He has written regularly for national newspapers and was a Tribune Columnist.
European Parliament[edit]
He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, one of the first Asian MEPs elected to the European Parliament and London's first ethnic minority MEP. He was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004. In 2009, he was number one on the London list of Labour candidates in the European Parliamentary elections, being re-elected to the European Parliament for the third time. Shortly after this, Moraes was elected a Spokesperson for the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In 2011 he was named Dod's and the European Parliament Magazine's 'MEP of the Year' for his work on Justice and Civil Liberties. He currently co-chairs the European Parliament's All Party Groups (Intergroups) on Ageing and on Anti-Racism.
Moraes is an early signatory of the International Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) which seeks to end the usual deadlock in tackling global issues. Moraes became a signatory in February 2005.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ simpol.org: List_of_all_pledged_candidates.pdf
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- Labour Party (UK) MEPs
- Commissioners for Racial Equality
- British people of Indian descent
- British politicians of South Asian descent
- Alumni of the University of Dundee
- Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Members of the European Parliament for English constituencies
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 1999–2004
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 2004–2009
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 2009–2014
- SIMPOL signatories
