Claude Moraes
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Claude Moraes MEP |
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Claude Moraes in 2012
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Member of the European Parliament for London |
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Assumed office 15 July 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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October 22, 1965 Aden, State of Aden |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
University of Dundee Birkbeck, University of London LSE |
| Website |
Official website European parliament page |
Claude Ajit Moraes (born 22 October 1965) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London since 1999. He is Chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the European Parliament.
Claude Moraes is of Indian descent. He was born in Aden (State of Aden), and grew up in Scotland, having moved to Dundee with his parents at the age of three from India. His parents are Indian Catholics from Karnataka (Mangalore) and Mumbai respectively. He attended the comprehensive St Modan's High School, and studied law at the University of Dundee, government at Birkbeck, University of London and public international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
After leaving Scotland, Claude Moraes settled in East London, living and volunteering at Toynbee Hall an anti-poverty charity, where he was later a Council Member and was appointed House of Commons researcher to MPs John Reid and Paul Boateng following the 1987 General Election.
He was appointed a national officer at the TUC at Congress House, London in 1989 and during this period was a representative to the ETUC in Brussels.
Prior to becoming an MEP, he attained a national campaigning and media profile as director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants - a UK-based independent legal NGO founded in 1967 specialising in refugee and migration issues. At JCWI he helped organise key legal challenges in the UK and European Courts. He succeeded Dame Anne Owers as director in 1992. Previous directors of JCWI have included Ian Martin, sometime Secretary General of Amnesty International. At this time he was also executive secretary to the Immigrants' Aid Trust. Moraes was appointed a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) for the period 1997-2002 while at JCWI. He was also an elected Council member of Liberty during this period.
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