Luke de Pulford
Luke John de Pulford (born 18 August 1984 in Canterbury, England) is a British human rights activist and Conservative Party figure. He co-founded the anti-slavery charity Arise in 2015 and led it until 2022. In 2020 he started the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), bringing together lawmakers from several countries to defend freedoms and challenge China on human rights issues; he serves as its executive director. He also co-founded the Coalition for Genocide Response and sits on the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, while advising the World Uyghur Congress and acting as trustee for several charities.
De Pulford is known for Hong Kong democracy campaigning, including public actions against pro-establishment figures. His work focuses on modern slavery and human rights abuses in China, and in 2022 he helped push a campaign to remove forced labour from NHS supply chains. In 2016 he helped secure the UK Parliament’s first declaration of genocide regarding Yazidis, Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. Since 2019 he has advised Hong Kong democracy activists and British MPs critical of the CCP, a stance that has drawn attention from Chinese authorities. IPAC, described as a cross-border alliance for liberties, held its first global summit in Rome and a 2022 meeting in Washington. De Pulford lives in London and received the Bene Merenti medal from Pope Francis in 2020 for his anti-slavery work.
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