Bianca Jagger has compiled an impressive list of humanitarian causes over the last 20 years. She has fought for the rights of indigenous Brazilian communities, campaigned for the Aids victims. She has supported Amnesty International in their anti-torture campaigns and acted as an ambassador for the Albert Schweizer Institute that helps the sick and vulnerable in the developing world.

She was born in Nicaragua in 1950. At the age of 16, she won a scholarship to the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Seeing the oppression and suffering through years of dictatorship made her realise the importance of people's rights.

Most recently she campaigned against war on Iraq, believing that the coalition had not exhausted the alternatives to conflict. Her visit to the country was to strengthen her views against military action. She lent her support to the Stop the War coalition speaking at its demonstration in Hyde Park in February.

Amongst other roles, Ms Jagger is a member of the executive directors' leadership council of Amnesty International and an adviser of Human Rights Watch.

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