JANE WINTER: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHJane Winter is now retired, but is has written and researched two biographies and is now writing novels. She is looking for an agent and/or a publisher (but not intested in self-publishing), She is an active member of the Hacked Off campaign, because her emails were hacked while she was with British Irish RIGHTS WATCH. a charity which monitored the human rights dimension of the conflict in Northern Ireland.. A journalist's daughter and a human rights activist, she is a champion of the freedom of the press, but believes there are limits to the invasion of privacy.From 1995 until 2012 Jane was the Director of BIRW, an independent human rights non-governmental organisation whose services are available, free of charge, to anyone whose human rights have been violated because of the conflict, regardless of religious, political or community affiliations. In that capacity, she testified before British, Congressional and Irish government hearings, made submissions to governments and the United Nations, researched high- and low-profile human rights violations, and made third party interventions in domestic and international courts. In 2007 she was awarded the Beacon Prize for Northern Ireland, in 2008 the Irish World’s Damien Gaffney Award, and in 2009 BIRW won the new Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Prize.After taking her degree in Social Anthropology, Jane worked as a researcher in two London Social Services Departments. She then moved to Battersea Law Centre where she was a caseworker in welfare rights, employment and immigration. After that she ran Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureau for five years, then became a welfare rights consultant for the CAB service in London. From 1990 until 1994 she was the Project Co-ordinator for the Public Law Project, which promotes access to public law remedies such as judicial review for the disadvantaged. Throughout her working life she has taught and published practical guides on rights issues, such as fuel rights, community care, and human rights.