Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside ( born January 3, 1932) is a British Labour politician, who is also chairman of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, AAM was from 1976 until its dissolution in 1995.

He went to Robert Gordon 's College in Aberdeen and lived from the age of 15 in South Africa, where he lived from 1947 to 1954 and worked as a technical draftsman. From 1970 to 1997 he was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Aberdeen North, and was subsequently raised as Baron Hughes of Woodside for Life Peer.

From March 1974 to July 1975 he was Unterstaatssekretät for Scotland, but resigned from his office because he did not agree with the income policy of the government.

Lord Hughes is Vice President of the British Humanist Association.

Under his driving board work, the anti- apartheid worked Movement against the refusal of the Thatcher government in the 1980s to impose sanctions against South Africa, and organized in 1988 a "Free Mandela " concert at Wembley Stadium that was broadcast worldwide. Lord Hughes took part in the independence celebrations in Namibia in 1990 and was a election observers in the first free elections in South Africa in 1994. According to the dissolution of the AAM, he was Chairman of the successor organization, Action for Southern Africa ( ACTSA ).