Claude Moraes

Claude Moraes ( born October 22, 1965 in Aden) since 1999 has been an MEP for the Labour Party for London in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.

Career

After he had moved at the age of six with his parents from India to Britain, Claude Moraes grew up in Scotland. After studying English and Scottish law at the University of Dundee, from which he graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Laws, he acquired in 1989 at Birkbeck College, University of London Master of Science degree in management science and administrative law. He then completed until 1991 postgraduate studies in international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Already during his studies he was from 1986 to 1989 Consultant of the members of the British House of Commons John Reid and Paul Boateng, before Commissioner of the European Trade Union Confederation ETUC for national policy in 1989. This office had Moraes held until 1992 when he was appointed director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; from 1993 he was also chief operating officer of the Foundation for the support of immigrants. Both offices he resigned in 1998 when he became a member of the Committee on racial equality was for a year instead. He is also a member of the National Council for Civil Liberties ( NCCL ) since 1997.

He eventually became first elected as MP for the London constituency of the European Parliament in 1999. He was until 2004 the first deputy chairman of the delegation for relations with South Africa. In the parliamentary elections of 2004 and 2009 he was re-elected each.

As a parliamentarian he is a member there in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the special committee on organized crime, corruption and money laundering, the alternate member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Furthermore, he is Deputy Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula and a substitute member of the Delegation for relations with India. Since 2004, Moraes is chairman of the Intergroup Working Group on Combating Racism and Diversity and Deputy Chairman of the Intergroup Intergroup on Ageing and since 2009 Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the European Parliament and coordinator of the Socialist Group in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home affairs.

In addition Moraes drew attention to himself by writing various publications; he was a co-author of Social Work and Minorities in the EU and in 2003 a co-author of The Politics of Migration and a year later of Migration Policy in the UK in 1994. In addition, he published articles on justice and home affairs and EU issues in newspapers and magazines.

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