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Book SynopsisBARONESS COX OF QUEENSBURY was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights.
She visits the most forgotten people in the world – often in highly dangerous conditions – to carry their stories of abuse and persecution back to the West. She has risked her life many times while taking aid to war victims in Armenia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and South Sudan, and Syria.
Honorary Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, recipient of the Wilberforce Award and of the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, she has also received honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Her motivation is profoundly Christian: “Faith without deeds is dead; love without action is dead.”
This new edition has been revised throughout to bring Baroness Cox’s remarkable story up to date.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD: Lord Alton of Liverpool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PROLOGUE: The Most Revd Dr Benjamin A. Kwashi. . . . . . 12
CHAPTER ONE
Appointment with the World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
CHAPTER TWO
Poland, Romania, Russia – The Iron Hand of
Communism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
CHAPTER THREE
Nagorno-Karabakh – Dignity is a Crown of Thorns . . . . . . 72
CHAPTER FOUR
Myanmar – “Land without Evil”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
CHAPTER FIVE
Nigeria – “Will You Tell the World?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
CHAPTER SIX
Sudan and South Sudan – Twin Quests for
Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
CHAPTER SEVEN
Syria – A Land of Conflicts, Near and Far. . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
CHAPTER EIGHT
Conclusion – On the Home Front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
