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01 Sir John Waite

3 September 2008

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I was co-chair of the Independent Asylum Commission, which recently completed a survey and report on the functioning of the asylum system within the UK.

The survey was far-reaching. It involved a series of hearings in London and throughout the UK at which the views of asylum seekers, and others with direct or voluntary responsibility for dealing with their claims, gave evidence.

Those hearings were recorded by Human Rights TV. The resulting record (which is available on-line) is invaluable. Firstly it enables the views and recommendations of the Commissioners in their Final Reports to be verified and independently evaluated by reference to the evidence they heard. Secondly it provides a useful, practical and readily accessible resource for students, social workers, government officials, charities, and all others who are concerned with the many problems which arise when refugees seek sanctuary in this country.

It was an impressive and innovative achievement, which deserves to be expanded to serve other causes in the public, human rights, and charitable sector.

John Waite

02 Canon Nicholas Sagovsky

 'The work of Human Rights TV in support of the Independent Asylum
Commission was quite remarkable. Our report continually referred to the
visual evidence that had been indexed and classified by Human Rights TV.
Their work enabled us to increase our impact several times over -
because people can so easily go to the internet and see the evidence for
themselves. As a Commissioner, I am deeply grateful for the
extraordinary contribution they made.'

Nicholas Sagovsky

Notes: 9 October 2003
The Queen has approved that the Reverend Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, MA, PhD, be appointed to the Residentiary Canonry in Westminster Abbey in succession to the Reverend Canon Nicholas Thomas Wright, MA, DPhil, DD, on his elevation to the Bishopric of Durham.

Professor Nicholas Sagovsky (born 1947) was Curate St Gabriel’s Church, Heaton, Newcastle from 1974 to 1977 and temporary Curate, Cambridge Great St Mary with St Michael, Cambridge during 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was Vice-Principal and Director of Studies, Edinburgh Theological College and from 1986 to 1997 Fellow, Dean and Director of Studies in Theology, Clare College, Cambridge. From 1997 to 2002 he was William Leech Professorial Research Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, Newcastle University. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Theology and Public Life, Liverpool Hope University College. Professor Sagovsky is the author of a number of books and articles on a wide range of subjects, in particular ecumenism, theology and justice, and 19th and 20th century theology.

He is married to Ruth, an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and they have one son and one daughter. His recreations include rough gardening and other Northumbrian pursuits.

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03 Professor Peter Ambrose

"I have been amazed and very impressed by the Human Right TV coverage of various events recently. In particular the coverage of the London Mayoral Assembly in Central Hall Westminster on 9 April of this year attended by 2500 people (at which I spoke) was full, professional and posted online extremely quickly. This has enabled me (and no doubt countless other participants) to refer those with a keen interest in this vitally important event to the Human Rights TV website to see what happened.
 
What did happen was extremely significant for millions of Londoners in that Boris Johnson undertook, inter alia, to calculate and publish each year a Housing Affordability Standard figure based on the methodology I outlined to the Assembly. HRTV coverage of this enables me to refer professional colleagues round the world to this key undertaking by the now Mayor of London. This is a first. No other country has a calculated 'affordable housing' yardstick.
 
Human Rights TV are doing a vitally important, and rapidly growing, job of educating millions at all levels by presenting in a most professional way aspects of important social and economic issues that in my view at least do not get sufficient and balanced coverage in the main organs of the mass media."

Peter Ambrose

Visiting Professor in Housing Studies
Health and Social Policy Research Centre
Brighton University
Mayfield House
Falmer, Brighton
BN1 9PH England