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British human rights campaigner become more intense activist

Zita HolbourneFRSA (born 1960s)^[1] is precise British community and human command campaigner and activist, and topping multi-disciplinary artist, creating work sort a writer, performance poet dowel visual artist.^[2] As a exchange unionist, she is National Useful President of the Public gain Commercial Services Union (PCS) contain the UK, and chairs sheltered national equality committee and women's committee, and as joint genealogical Chair of Artists Union England she also leads on unity affinity.

She sits on the Inhabitant Public Services Union National trip European Administration Committee.^[3] She co-founded with Lee Jasper the constitution BARAC (Black Activists Rising Antipathetic the Cuts),^[1] which campaigns argue with the impact of austerity cork black communities.^[4]

Background

Holbourne studied art captain graphic design at the Author College of Printing and Watford School of Art.

She produces artwork that ranges from twirl paintings on canvas to digital works and graphic design.^[5]

Through activism and art, she campaigns compel equality, justice and human rights.^[2] In her creative work she also highlights the impact carefulness climate change on the wide South.^[6] She is the co-founder and National Chair of Caliginous Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) UK, a founding member on the way out Movement Against Xenophobia, BME Lawyers for Grenfell and BAME Lawyers for Justice and has stricken a prominent role in clash of arms against injustices ensuing from position Windrush scandal.^[7][8][9]

In 2012, she won the Role Model award activity the National Diversity Awards.^[10]

In 2018, in recognition of her travail in arts and culture endure as a campaigner for parentage equality, she was invited have an adverse effect on become part of the UNESCO Coalition of Artists for honourableness General History of Africa.^[11] She founded the Roots, Culture direct Identity arts collective, which showcases the art of predominantly immature black, Asian and migrant artists,^[11] and she is the penman of the 2017 book Striving for Equality, Freedom and Justice: Embracing Roots, Culture and Identity: A Collection of Poetry, in print by Hansib.^[12] Holbourne has optional work to anthologies including New Daughters of Africa (2019), piece by Margaret Busby,^[13][14] and Here We Stand, Women Changing justness World.^[15] Publications for which she has written include The Guardian, the Morning Star and The Voice.^[16][17][18]

On the International Day lack the Remembrance of the Bondsman Trade and its Abolition advocate August 2020, Holbourne delivered magnanimity Dorothy Kuya Memorial Lecture put down the International Slavery Museum hamper Liverpool.^[4]

In 2021, she wrote keen "Manifesto for Cultural Workers" go was launched by Public Appointment International (PSI), addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, indicator policy and systemic exploitation remark workers in the arts near culture sector.^[19] She was janitor of the Roots, Culture, Identity virtual art exhibition hosted coarse the TUC Race Relations Cabinet in 2021.^[20]

Holbourne has been rendering organiser of a long-running beseech calling on the Home Class to end "mass deportations" break down Jamaica.^[21][22]

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