Jacqueline Margarete Jones (born 10 February 1966) is a Welsh politician,

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, and academic. She served as the Labour Party

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(MEP) for

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from 2019 to 2020. She taught law at

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, and then at

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, where she was Professor of Feminist Legal Studies.

Background

Jackie has lived in

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and

Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...

since 1985. Jones has been researching and teaching law for over 20 years, first at

, then at

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. Her main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender, migration, asylum process, human trafficking, violence against women, all within a human rights perspective. Jones was previously the Chair of the Wales Assembly of Women and President of the European Women Lawyers Association, and worked with various equalities organisations, including Welsh Women's Aid and the National Alliance of Women's Organisations.

Representing Wales

Jones was the Labour MEP for Wales in the

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from July 2019 to January 2020, when the UK withdrew from the European Union. Within the European Parliament, Jones was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee, and a substitute member of the Transport and Tourism Committee, as well as first Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States. Jones also founded the Wales-EU Parliamentary Friendship Group which focused on strengthening Welsh-EU relations and providing a platform for Welsh citizens' rights and interests at the European level post-Brexit. Jones stood for the Labour Party in

Preseli Pembrokeshire Preseli Pembrokeshire (, ; cy, Preseli Sir Benfro) was one of six local government districts of Dyfed in West Wales from 1974 to 1996. Until 1987 the name of the district was Preseli. The district took its name from the Preseli Hills. Creation Th ...

at the

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. Since May 2022 Jones has been a county councillor on Cardiif Council for the Whitchurch & Tongwylais ward.

Selected works

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References

1966 births Living people Labour Party (UK) MEPs MEPs for Wales 2019–2020 21st-century women MEPs for Wales Welsh barristers Academics of Cardiff University Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol Welsh legal scholars Women legal scholars Feminist studies scholars People from Pembrokeshire {{UK-MEP-stub