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Katherine Allen (born 25 January 1955) was the Director of
Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...
UK (AIUK) from 2000 to 2021.


Early life and education

Katherine Allen was the daughter of William Allen and Patricia Allen (née Middleton). She gained a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at
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. Allen was made an Honorary Fellow by the university in 2006.


Career

Allen was a policy officer at the
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from 1977 to 1979. She then became a scientific officer at the Social Science Research Council (1979–80) and a policy officer at
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(1980–81). From 1981 to 1987, Allen was senior policy officer in Social Services for the Association of County Councils. She was elected to Camden Council in
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, representing Kilburn for the Labour Party. Whilst on the council, she was chair of the Women's Committee. In March 1990, whilst still a councillor, she attempted to become the Labour
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for the
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of Hampstead and Highgate, which included Kilburn. However, she lost out to the actress
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on the third ballot. Allen remained a councillor until the May 1990 local elections. She became deputy chief executive of the
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in 1987, a role she held until 1999. There, Allen headed the UK emergency evacuation programmes for Bosnia and
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, and chaired the Asylum Rights Campaign during the passage of new asylum and immigration legislation. In 1998/99 she was seconded to the Home Office, where she worked on the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act. In 2000, Allen was appointed the UK Director of
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, the third-largest Amnesty section worldwide with more than a quarter of a million supporters; Allen undertook a major restructure, and established the Human Rights Action Centre in
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. Having appeared on
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'', in October 2005 she wrote a two-page article in ''
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'' newspaper, which launched an international campaign on
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and repression. In March 2021, Allen announced she would be retiring from Amnesty International in September of the same year, after 21 years.


Personal life

For 20 years, Allen was the partner of Ken Livingstone, former leader of the
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, then
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, and later the first
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. Allen was one of the three Labour councillors representing Kilburn on Camden Council. The couple's relationship ended in 2001.


References


External links


Video interview with Kate Allen (The Alligator Online)

Transcript of an interview with Kate Allen (The Student Journals)

(Third Sector)

(The Guardian)

(Amnesty International UK)
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