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Before her election to the European Parliament, Mary Honeyball's career was in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity. She was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of [[Gingerbread]], the charity for single parent families. She was also a councillor in the [[London Borough of Barnet]] from 1978 to 1986. |
Before her election to the European Parliament, Mary Honeyball's career was in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity. She was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of [[Gingerbread]], the charity for single parent families. She was also a councillor in the [[London Borough of Barnet]] from 1978 to 1986. |
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She was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women's Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of [[Emily's List]], an organisation that helps |
She was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women's Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of [[Emily's List]], an organisation that helps Labour women campaign for seats in Parliament.<ref>[http://www.labourlist.org/mary_honeyball Labourlist Profile], </ref> |
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Mary Honeyball is the UK Labour representative in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament. <ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?partNumber=1&group=1534&country=GB&language=EN&id=5846 MEP Profile]</ref> She is also a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2008_45_thu.shtml BBC Radio Four ''Woman's Hour'' – "The Gender Politics of Political Blogs"], 6 November 2008</ref> |
Mary Honeyball is the UK Labour representative in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament. <ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry/view.do?partNumber=1&group=1534&country=GB&language=EN&id=5846 MEP Profile]</ref> She is also a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics. <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2008_45_thu.shtml BBC Radio Four ''Woman's Hour'' – "The Gender Politics of Political Blogs"], 6 November 2008</ref> |
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Mary Honeyball (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative parties representing London. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2000. Seventh on Labour's 1999 list, she had not been elected in the European Parliament Election, 1999, but replaced Pauline Green who resigned as an MEP in November 1999.
Before her election to the European Parliament, Mary Honeyball's career was in the charitable and non-governmental sector. During the 1980s she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for SCOPE, the cerebral palsy charity. She was later the General Secretary of the Association of Chief Officers of Probation from 1994 to 1998, and prior to that Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families. She was also a councillor in the London Borough of Barnet from 1978 to 1986.
She was Chair of the Greater London Labour Party Women's Committee during the 1980s and spent three years as Treasurer of Emily's List, an organisation that helps Labour women campaign for seats in Parliament.[1]
Mary Honeyball is the UK Labour representative in the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament. [2] She is also a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics. [3]
When commenting on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill last spring, Mary Honeyball asked whether ministers, such as Ruth Kelly and Des Brown, should be allowed to sit on the front bench of government if they follow the Pope's whip above the government's. [4] In the same article, Mary Honeyball also said that Catholicism exercised a "vice-like grip" on the legislative processes over large parts of Continental Europe, blocking women in Ireland and Portugal's right to an abortion. [5] This was cited as a contributory reason for the resignation of Conor McGinn, the vice chairman of Young Labour who described it as a "sectarian diatribe".[6]
References
- ^ Labourlist Profile,
- ^ MEP Profile
- ^ BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour – "The Gender Politics of Political Blogs", 6 November 2008
- ^ Cardinals' sins - Gordon Brown has allowed his authority to be undermined by the three Catholics in his cabinet, 20 May 2008
- ^ Cardinals' sins - Gordon Brown has allowed his authority to be undermined by the three Catholics in his cabinet, # Mary Honeyball, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday May 20, 2008
- ^ Labour activist quits post over anti-Catholicism, Ed West, Catholic Herald, 30 May 2008
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