Human Rights as Human Values

Shami Chakrabarti has been director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties, or NCCL) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as in-house counsel on September 10, 2001. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the War on Terror and with the defense and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the courts, and wider society. A barrister by background, she was called to the bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for governments of both persuasions.