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Katherine Allen (born 25 January 1955) is the Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK).〔http://www.amnesty.org.uk/sites/default/files/kate_allen_34_0.pdf〕 ==Career== After studying for a BA(Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Allen was a a policy officer at the Greater London Council, and then Haringey London Borough Council. She was a member of Camden Council during the 1980s where she set up the Women’s Committee. Allen then moved to the Refugee Council, where she headed the UK emergency evacuation programmes for Bosnia and Kosovo, and chaired the Asylum Rights Campaign during the passage of new asylum and immigration legislation. In 1998/99 she was seconded to the Home Office, where she worked on the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act.〔 In 1992 she tried to gain the Labour nomination to stand for the seat of Coventry North East at the General Election, however she came fourth in the selection process. In 2000, Allen was appointed UK Director Amnesty International, the third largest Amnesty section worldwide with more than a quarter of a million supporters;〔 Allen undertook a major restructure, and established the Human Rights Action Centre in Shoreditch. Having appeared on BBC’s ''Question Time'', in May 2006 she wrote a two-page article in ''The Observer'' newspaper, which launched an international campaign on Internet censorship and repression. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Allen (Amnesty International)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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