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Online talk
The Work of the HALO Trust
Chris Loughran

Chris is Senior Policy & Advocacy Advisor for The Halo Trust and leads their global advocacy strategy as well as the organisation's policy change agenda. He is also responsible for leading political engagement in the UK. Chris is an accomplished spokesperson, with a decade of experience of high-level representation at the United Nations. He has over thirteen years of senior management and leadership experience in the UK and overseas, including three years as Country Director in Iraq.

The Halo Trust is an international humanitarian NGO working in 25 countries affected by conflict, instability, and humanitarian crises. HALO specialises in clearing landmines and addressing human suffering caused by small arms and ammunition.

The Halo Trust helps countries recover after conflict. Whilst clearing landmines, to save lives, is at the heart of what they do, they continue to work with communities that are too often forgotten once the fighting has ended.

Chris talked about the work of HALO and their recently established Action on Conflict campaign. He stressed the increased influence of the north east through the recenrly elected Conservative MPs in 'red wall' constituencies.

For more information on HALO's work, see: https://www.halotrust.org/

Ruth Dodds was born in 1890 and lived in Gateshead. She was a playwright, Quaker, volunteer and local politician. She joined the Labour Party after the First World War and was one of the first women to be elected to Gateshead Council in 1929. In 1939 she resigned from the Labour Party in protest at its support for war, and although she later rejoined she was not as politically active. She was made the first woman Freeman of Gateshead in 1965. Together with her sisters, Hope and Sylvia, she helped to found the Little Theatre in Gateshead. Ruth Dodds kept diaries, from which this interesting and inspiring talk took extracts and placed them in the context of Tyneside in the 1920s .

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