Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
sternvh@parliament.uk
Biography
Councils, public bodies
Committee Member, Prison Disciplinary System 1984-85
International bodies
Member, Advisory Council, ILANUD (United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders);
Honorary Secretary-general, Penal Reform International;
Board member, Association for Prevention of Torture, Geneva 1993-2000;
Vice-president, Comité de Soutien, Français Incarcérés au Loin (FIL) 2001-07;
Trustee, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington;
Member, advisory council:
International Legal Foundation, New York,
Legal Policy Research Centre, Kazakhstan
Political interests
Criminal justice, foreign affairs, human rights, international development, penal reform, prisons, rape and sexual violence, death penalty
Countries of interest
Afghanistan, Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Takjikistan, Uzbekistan
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baroness Stern, of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth 1999
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Member, Open Society Institute Criminal Justice Fund Advisory Committee, New York; remunerated for attendance at three meetings per year
Annual royalties from Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
6: Sponsorship
The International Centre for Prison Studies (registered charity) provides the Member with office space in her capacity as a Trustee of the charity (see category 10(e))
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Visiting Professor, University of Essex
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Trustee, International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London
Trustee, Civil Liberties Trust
President, Association of Members of Independent Monitoring Boards
Member, Advisory Board, Legal Policy Resource Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Member, Advisory Board, John Smith Memorial Trust
Member, Advisory Board, International Legal Foundation, New York, USA