Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs

Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs

Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs (born December 5, 1932 in Prague ) is a British Labor Party politician and former member of the House of Commons.

Youth and education

Dubs comes from Czechoslovakia. He was one of the 699 Czech mostly Jewish children who emigrated to Great Britain from the German Reich and the occupied territories as part of the Kindertransport campaign initiated by the English stockbroker Nicholas Winton . His father fled to Great Britain on the day the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. His mother was originally refused a visa but was able to travel to the UK a short time later.

Dubs learned the truth about Nicholas Winton's story through a radio broadcast in 1988. He later met Winton personally and fought for his award. Winton was knighted in 2002.

Dubs studied at the London School of Economics . Then he worked for a local authority.

Career

Dubs was elected to the House of Commons in the Battersea South constituency in 1979 and in the Battersea constituency in 1983 . In 1987 he lost re-election. From 1988 to 1995 he was Director of the Refugee Council . In 1994 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Dubs , of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth . He moved into the House of Lords for the Labor Party . From 1997 to 1999 he was Parliamentary Undersecretary in the Northern Ireland Office .

Lord Dubs worked for the regional health authority. He was chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission in the Office of Communications and was vice chairman of the Independent Television Commission . He is the trustee of the Open University Foundation .

He was active as a council member and chairman and trustee of various social organizations.

In 2008 Lord Dubs was very active in the House of Lords; he took part in 42 debates, which is well above the average peer. He made speeches in many areas. He works with the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights .

In May 2016, an amendment to the law known as the Dubs bill was adopted to allow the UK to accept large numbers of unaccompanied refugee minors . Over the following months it was repeatedly criticized that not a single child had been admitted under the new regulation, that the British government had remained inactive and that there was still no procedure on the part of France to identify and register the children despite the foreseeable closure of refugee camps in Calais , who could benefit from the new regulation. Media reported at the end of October that around 200 Calais children had reached the UK and a few dozen were to follow. Some are underage refugees with relatives in Great Britain, some are very young (12-year-old) refugees or girls. The latter will be included in order to protect them from sexual assault.

Dubs is currently Chairman of the Road Safety Foundation and Vice President of the Debating Group .

In 2017 he starred in the movie Sea Sorrow .

Web links

• Profile on the Parliament's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC news
2. ↑ BBC: breakfast with frost
3. ^ Mark Townsend, Matthew Weaver, Harriet Sherwood: Home Office yet to accept single child refugees from Calais. The Guardian, October 21, 2016, accessed October 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Amelia Gentleman: 'It is a disgrace to Europe': former child refugee Lord Dubs on the Calais camp. The Guardian, September 5, 2016, accessed October 22, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Hundreds of migrants are allowed to come: the British take in young Calais refugees. In: tagesschau.de. ARD, October 25, 2016, accessed on October 27, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Debating Group ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.