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Cherie Blair

Cherie Blair is chair of Omnia Strategy LLP. She is married to Tony Blair, the envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, and former prime minister. She chairs the Cherie Blair foundation, working to strengthen the capacity of women entrepreneurs in countries where they lack equal opportunities

November 2017

  • Joyce Banda in 2012.

    Death threats and a ‘ghost warrant’ – why is Malawi hounding Joyce Banda?

    Cherie Blair
    The rule of law is failing in this important African state, writes Cherie Blair, chair of Omnia Strategy LLP

August 2016

  • Silhouettes of two women

    Business and the sustainable development goals
    Cherie Blair and Miriam González: why companies must act on slavery law

    Cherie Blair and Miriam González Durántez
    The government is increasing action on modern slavery including a law pushing NGOs, media and consumers to name and shame businesses that don’t act

August 2015

  • A handout picture taken on March 4, 2014 and released by the United Women in Rwanda internally displaced persons camp

    Rwanda's gender gap: banks must stop failing female entrepreneurs

    Cherie Blair
    In Rwanda, only 35% of women have a bank account. This is holding some women back from developing their own businesses

June 2015

  • Widows take part in the Holi festival in Vrindavan

    Why widowhood is one of the developing world’s key problems

    Cherie Blair
    International Widows Day gives us a chance to act to address the stigma and the poverty

October 2014

  • Japanese Prime Minister Abe

    Japan must embrace ‘womenomics’ to modernise economy

    After visiting the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo, Cherie Blair discusses prime minister Shinzo Abe’s promise to promote women in leadership

June 2012

  • Cherie Blair: The price of the cab-rank rule

    Letter: Being labelled as an 'embarrassment' because I sometimes represented clients taking cases against the Labour government was a small price to pay for being able to continue the career I had worked so hard to establish

March 2011

  • Gerry Mackenzie

    Other lives
    Gerry Mackenzie obituary

    Other lives: Former switchboard operator at 10 Downing Street

August 2010

  • Cif belief
    Iran is attempting to decapitate its Bahá'í community

    Cherie Blair

    Cherie Blair: The sham trial of seven Bahá'í leaders is a violation of Iran's international human rights obligations and the country's own law

January 2010

  • Cif belief
    Faith, life and death in Iran

    Cherie Blair

    Cherie Blair: Bahá'í leaders are being made scapegoats. We must press Tehran to grant them a fair trial

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