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FEMALE
MINISTERS
OF INTERIOR, HOME AFFAIRS,
SECURITY,
CIVIL DEFENCE AND POLICE
See Ministers of Defence in
Female Defence Ministers
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1950-53 Minister of Justice and Police Helga Pedersen, Denmark
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Personal Secretary of the Minister of Justice 1940-46, City Court
Judge in Copenhagen 1947-50 and 1953-56, MF for The Rightwing Liberals
1953-64, Judge in the Court of Appeals (Østre Landsret) 1956-64, High
Court Judge 1964-71 and Judge at the Court for Human Rights of The
Council of Europe, 1972-80 (†). 1968 she turned down the offer of post
of Foreign Minister. Inger Helga was unmarried, and lived (1911-1980)
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1959-60
Minister of Interior Qian Ying, China |
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1951-54 Vice-Chairperson of the People’s
Control Committee of the Government Administrative Committee,
1954-59 Minister of People’s Supervision. She lived (1903-73) |
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1963-64 Minister of Home Affairs
Janet Jagan, Guyana |
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1950-70 Secretary General, 1970-84 International Secretary and 1984-90
Executive Secretary of PPP, 1953 Deputy President of the National Assembly, 1954
imprisoned by the British authorities for her activities for independence,
1957-61 Minister of Labour, Health and Housing
1973-97 Editor-in-Chief of The Mirror, 1993 Ambassador-at-Large and Acting
Permanent Representative of the United Nations (October-December). She is the
widow of Dr. Cheddi Bharat Jagan, Chief Minister 1953-55 and 1957-61, President
1961-64 and 1991-97(†).
1996-97 Leader of the Opposition, 1997 Prime Minister and Minister of Mines,
1997-99 President. In July 1999 she suffered a mild hart attack and chose to
resign from her post 3 years ahead of time, endorsing her successor the 35 years
old Bharrat Jagdeo, Minister of Finance 1994-99. Janet
Rosenberg was born in Chicago. (b.
1920-)
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1965-70 Minister of Justice and Police Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer,
Norway |
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Conservative Member of the City Council of Oslo 1951-55, Judge in the High Court 1971-90.
She lived (1923-2001 )
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1966-70 Minister of Home Affairs Mable Moir James,
Dominica |
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MP for Labour Party of Phylis Shand Alfrey. At some point she acted as
acted as Chief Minister. (b. 1917-) |
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1973-75 and
1978-79 Minister of Justice and Police Nathalie
Lind, Denmark |
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MF
for the Rightwing Liberals 1964-66 and 1968-81,
Minister of Social Affairs 1968-71
and
1973-75 also Minister of Cultural
Affairs, Vice-Chairperson of
the Folketing (Diet) 1973 and 1975-78, Deputy President of Nordic
Council 1975-78 and 1978, Vice-Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Group of her party 1977-78. She lived
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1973-79 Minister of Justice and Police
Inger Louise
Valle,
Norway |
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1971-72 Minister of Family and Consumers' Affairs, 1979-81 Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Labour, Labour MP 1977-83 and lived (1921-2006). |
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1980-84 Minister of Home Affairs Kebatshabile L. Disele,
Botswana |
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1951-54 Vice-Chairperson of the People’s
Control Committee of the Government Administrative Committee,
1954-59 Minister of People’s Supervision. She lived (1903-73) |
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1981-85 Minister of Justice and Police Mona Scobie Røkke,
Norway |
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Governor of Vestfold Fylke since 1989. (b. 1940-) |
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1982-86
Minister of Interior Britta Caroc Schall Holberg, Denmark |
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As Minister of Interior she was also in Charge of Civil Defence and
of Health, 1986-87 Minister of Agriculture. (b. 1941-)
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1985-86 Minister of Justice and Police
Wenche Frogn Sellæg, Norway |
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1981-83 Minister of Environmental Protection, 1989-90 Minister of Social Affairs, Deputy Leader of Høyre 1988-90. (b. 1937-). |
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1986-90 Minister of Home Affairs Rita Sinon, Seychelles |
| Former secretary of the
governing SPUP-party. |
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1986-89 Minister of Justice and Police
Helen Bøsterud, Norway |
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1980-81 State Secretary of Social Affairs, Since 1993 Director General of the Directorate for Civil Defence and
Emergency Planning. (b. 1940-)
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1987-90 Minister of the
Interior, District Administration and People's Moblisation Evelyn M.B.
Alexander-Vandenburg, Suriname |
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1988-92 Minister of Home Affairs
Stella Odie-Alli, Guyana |
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1986-88 Minister of State of Home Affairs
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1989-94 (†)
Minister of the Interior Ien Dales, The Netherlands |
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Secretary of Social Affairs And Health 1981-82, MP. for P.v.d.A
1982-87, Party Vice-Chairperson 1983-86, government appointed Mayor
of Nijmegen 1987-89. She lived together with State Secretary
of Justice, Elisabeth Schmitz (See below). Ien Dales lived
(1931-94). |
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1989-90 Minister of Interior and
Civil Defence Margaret Austin, New Zealand |
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Also Minister of Arts, Culture and
Science. |
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1989-90 Minister of Justice and Police Else Bugge Fougner,
Norway |
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Conservative. (b. 1944-) |
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1990-92 Minister of Justice and Police
Education Kari Gjesteby, Norway |
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1976-78 State Secretary of Church Affairs
and Education, 1979-81 State Secretary of Finance, 1981 Minister of Trade and Shipping in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1986-88 State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Director in Norges Bank, the Central Bank 1989-90 and since 1993. (b.
1947-). |
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1992-93
Minister of Interior Lagle Parek, Estonia |
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The
former dissident and political prisoner was Leader of the National
Independence Party 1988-93 and Presidential Candidate in 1992.
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1992-96 Minister of Justice and Police
Grete Faremo, Norway |
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1990-92 Minister of Development Aid, 1996 Minister of Petroleum and
Energy (b. 1959- ) |
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1993-97
Minister of the Interior Birte Weiss, Denmark |
As Minister of Interior she was also in charge of Civil Defence.
1981-86 Deputy Chairperson of the Social Democrats,
1994-96 Minister of Church Affairs
1996-98 Minister of Health, 1998-99 Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing, 1999-2001 Minister of
Research and Information Technology
1998-99 (b.
1941-)
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1993 Minister of Justice and Police Pia
Gjellerup, Denmark |
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1987-2007 MF, 1990-93 Chairperson of the Taxation Committee, 1991-93
and from 2001 Secretary, 1994-98 and 2002-05 Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Group of the Social Democrats, 1991-93 and 2001-02
Secretary of The Folketing, 1993-98 Deputy Chairperson of the Finance
Committee,
1998-2000 Minister of Business and Industry and
2000-01 Minister of Finance. (b. 1960-) |
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1996-98
Minister of Public Security, Interior and Police Laura Chinchilla
Miranda, Costa Rica
2008 Acting Minister of Security |
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Vice-Minister
of Security 1994-96. First Vice-President and Minister of Justice
from 2006. |
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1996-97 Minister of Interior
Meral Akşener,
Turkey |
| A leading member of the
Motherland Party, ANAP. |
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1996-97 Minister of Justice and Police cand.jur. Anne Holt,
Norway |
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Lawyer and an popular Author of Criminal Novels, after two months
as minister she had to resign because of an serious anemia-illness. In 2000 she
married another woman. (b.
1959-)
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1997-98 Minister of the Interior
Yeh Chin-feng,
Taiwan |
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Judge in the Taichung District Court 1969-1980 and Presiding Judge, Yunlin District Court, 1981-1985,1981-1992
Chairperson of he Presidium of
the
National Assembly, Judge of the Taichung Branch of Taiwan
High Court, University Lecturer 1981-85, Judge in the Supreme Court
1981-1986, 1987-1988,
Senior
Specialist of the Judicial Yuan 1987, Commissioner of the Examination Yu
1987 and 1988, 1988-1992 Deputy Director-General,
Department of Women's Affairs, Central Committee, Kuomintang and since 1988
Member of the Central Committee, Kuomintang, 1992-96 Vice-Chairperson of the Mainland Affairs Committee of the Executive
Yuan, 1996-2000 Minister of State,
1996-97 Minister without Portfolio,
1998-99 Chairperson of the Mainland Affairs Committee,
1999-2000 Minister of Justice (b. 1943-)
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1997-99 Minister of the Interior
Francisca Lucas Pereira Gomes,
Guinea Bissau |
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Francisca Pereira (or possibly
Peirreira) was the first female President of a Region before her appointment to the
cabine,
1990-94 Minister of Women's Affairs,
1990-94 Member of the Council of State,
1993-94 Minister of Social Affairs,
1994-97 1. Vice-President of Assembléias Nacional
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2003 Minister of State and Councillor charged with Political Affairs and
Diplomacy |
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1997 Minister of Justice and
Police Gerd-Liv Valla, Norway |
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Advisor of the Premier Minister 1990-92, State Secretary by the Premier
Minister 1992-94, Vice-Chairperson of the Association of Civil Servants
1994-97 and Vice-Chairperson of the Central Labour Association 1997-2001
and it's chairperson until 2007 when she was forced to resign when it
was revealed that she had harrassed employees. (b. 1960- ) |
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1997-99 Minister of Justice and Police Aud Inger Aure,
Norway |
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Mayor of Kristiansand 1993-97. She had to resign after a hart
attack and was succeeded by the first man on the post since 1981 and 11 successive women. (b. 1943-)
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1998-2000
Minister of Security and Police Elizabeth Chuiz Sierra, Honduras |
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The first minister in the portfolio |
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1998-98 Minister of Interior, Police and Municipality Affairs Ana Luisa Armjios, Ecuador
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1991-93 President of Banco Central del Ecuador,
1994-96 President of the National
Monetary Board and Cabinet Member, 1995-96 Minister of Economy and
1999 Minister of Finance.
(b. 1949-). |
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1998-99 of the Interior and Minister in Charge of Co-ordination
of the Civil Defence Rosa Russo
Jervelino, Italy |
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1987-89
Minister for without Portfolio for Special Affairs, 1989-92 for Social Affairs, 1992-94 of Education and
. She was Secretary of the Partito della
Democrazia Cristiana 1992-94 and 1994-ca. 96 President of the
Partito Populare Italiana afterwards vice-President. In
1999 her party nominated her as candidate for the post of
President. (b. 1936-) |
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1998-2003 Secretary of Security Regina Ip, Hong
Kong |
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1997-98
Director of Immigration and from 1998 Secretary of Security
in charge of Hong Kong's Defence force. |
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1998-2002 Minister of Home
Affairs and Public Security
Paula A. Cox
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Concurrently
minister of
Labour and from 2002 Minister of Education and
Development. (b. 1969-). |
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1999-2001 Minister of Interior Dosta Dimovska, Macedonia |
| Vice-President of
the Government 1998-2000 and 2001-02. Also
Vice-President of VMRO-DPMNE. (b. 1954-). |
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1999-2001
1999-2001 Minister of Interior,
Public Administration and Decentralization
Vasso Papandreau, Greece |
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1985 Deputy Minister of Energy and Industry, 1986-88 Alternate Minister of
Industry, 988-89 Minister of External Trade, 1989-92 EEC-Commissioner for
Labour, Social Affairs and Industry, 1994-96 Vice-President of the Council
of Europe, 1996-99 Minister of Development and
from 2001 Minister of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works.
She is among the Leaders of the Socialists, PASOK. (b. 1956-).
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1999-2000 Minister of Justice and Police
Yvonne Reine Antoniette Raveles-Resida,
Suriname |
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Wonny
Rawales was
Under-Minister of Culture 1980,
Minister of Regional Development
1996-2000,
Parliamentary Leader of Nationaal Democratisch Partij/2000 Faction
2000-05 and Candidate for the post of Vice-Chairperson of the
Nationale Assemblee in 2005. (b. 1941-) |
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2000-05 Minister of the Interior Urmila Joella-Sewnundun,
Suriname |
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2000-01 Minister of
Trade and Industry.
In consideration for the post of Minister of Justice and Police in 2005 but withdrew in the last moment for personal reasons.
Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2006. (b. 1968-). |
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2000-02
Secretary of State of Internal Affairs, Civil Defence and Justice
Francesca Michelotti,
San Marino
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Member of the Council of the
San Marino City from 1980, Member of
the Consiglio Grande e Generale fra 1993, Member of the Council of the 12 and
other Commissions and
Secretary of State of Education,
Cultural Institutions,
Universities and Social Affairs from 2006. (b. 1952-). |
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2000-01 Minister of Justice Hanne
Harlem, Norway |
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Councillor of Children and Education of Oslo 1992-93, Assistant Judge and a
number of managerial positions from 2001. Sister of former Premier Minister Gro Harlem
Brundtland (b.1964-) |
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2000-01 Minister of the Interior and Refugees Karen Jespersen,
Denmark |
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1993-94, 1994-2000 and from 2007 Minister of Social Affairs. A former leading member of the Leftwing Socialists before she became MF for the Social Democrats 1993-2005
until she resigned and joined the rightwing
Liberals in 2007. (b.
1947-) |
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2001-05 Cabinet Member and National
Security Advisor
Dr. Condoleezza Rice,
United States of America |
Director of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council 1989-93. Professor of International Affairs of Stanford University.
From 2003 also
Director of the Iraq
Stabilization Group at the White House and as such
she coordinates and oversees the
stateside element of the rebuilding projects while the direction
of U.S. efforts on the ground in Iraq
remained under the
authority of Paul Bremer as the head of the Coalition Provisional
Authority. Secretary of State from 2005. (b. 1954-) |
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2001-02 Minister of Interior and Justice Vera Sofia Rubi, Honduras
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She was candidate in the internal primaries in the Liberal Party for the
position of Presidential Candidate in
1997,
2001
and 2005. |
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2001-06 Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs Mia
Mottley, Barbados |
1994-2001 Minister of Education, Culture and Youth and
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since 2001 Leader of the
House, from 2003 Deputy Premier and from 2006 Minister of Economic Affairs and Development. (b. 1965-).
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2001-04
Minister of Home Affairs
Sarah
Flood-Beaubrun, St. Lucia |
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1997-2001
Minister of Health, Human Service and Family Affairs,
1997-2004 Minister of Gender Relations,
and in 2001 she gave birth to her first child.
In January 2004 she was dismissed from the government because she protested
against a decision to allow abortion under certain circumstances,
she founded the party the Organization for National
Empowerment. Resigned from
parliament in 2006 and lot the subsequent by-election and then joined the
opposition
United Worker’s Party. Appointed Speaker of the House of Assembly in 2007. (b. 1969-)
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2001- Minister of Justice Lene Espersen,
Denmark |
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MF
since 1994, Political Spokesperson of The Conservative People's
1999-2001. (b. 1965-)
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2002-04
Minister of Interior
Dr. Lamperth Mónika, Hungary
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Former
chairperson of the Association of Hungarian Social Democratic Local
Polititians and Vice-President of the European Association of Social
Democratic Local Polititians. Socialist MP. (b. 1957-). |
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2002-07
Minister of Security
Cynthia
"Mother" Pratt, Bahamas
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Security (In charge of the Defence
Force and Police). She was Opposition Whip Ca. 1992-2000 and
from ca. 2000 Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Progressive
Liberal Democratic Part.
Acting Prime Minister in May-June
during ilness of the Premier. She is aformer nurse, she is mother of 6 children (b. 1947-) |
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2002-04 Minister of
Interior
Cristina Fontes Lima, Cape Vede |
Maria Cristina Lopes Almeida Fontes Lima
was Minister of Justice 2001-06,
Minister of
Local Administration
2001-02, Minister Adjunct to the
Prime Minister and Government Spokesperson 2004-06, Minister of Defence and of the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
and
Minister of State Reform from 2006.
(b. 1958-).
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2002 Secretary
of State of Internal Affairs, Post and Telecommunication and Civil Defence
Emma Rossi, San Marino |
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1983-86
Minister of State of Health and Social Affairs, 1990-94 and 1997-2000
Political Coordinator of Partito Social Reformanista in the Consiglio
Grande e Generale, 1992-94 Minister of State of Justice, Culture and
Education, 1994-97 Minister of State of Territory, Environment and
Agriculture, 2000-02 Secretary of State of Public Instruction,
Universities, Social Affairs, Culture and Information and from 2000
Party President.
(b. 1952-).
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2003-06
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency
Preparedness
Anne McLellan,
Canada |
Liberal MP 2003-06
and
1993-95
Minister of Energy, Mines, Forestry,
1994-97
Federal Interlocutor for Métis
and Non-Status Indians,
1995-97 Minister of National Resources,
1997-2002 Minister of Justice and Attorney General,
2002-03
Minister of Health, From
2003
also
Deputy
Prime Minister.
(b. 1950-).
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2003-06
Minister for Policing, Security
and Community Safety Hazel Blaers,
United Kingdom of Great Britain |
Had overall responsibility for reducing crime and the fear of crime,
police policy and police reform, community safety and anti-social behaviour,
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and the Street Crime Initiative.
She provided support to the Home Secretary on counter-terrorism and
resilience. She was
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State of Health 2001-03. Labour Chair 2006-07 and Secretary
of Communities and Local Government since 2007. (b. 1956-)
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2004-05
Minister in charge of Internal Security and Local Liberties Marie-José Roig,
France |
Minister-Delegate in the Ministry of Interior. Previously
Deputy Mayor 1983-89 and Mayor of Avignon since 2001, Minister of Family and
Children in 2004.
(b. 1938-).
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2004- Minister of Home
Affairs
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula,
South Africa |
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Deputy Minister of
Home Affairs 2002-04.
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2004-06 Federal Minister of Interior Liese Prokop, Austria
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Government Councillor from 1981 and Vice Minister President 1992-2004 of
Niederösterreich. Also vice-President of The ÖVP (Conservatives) of the
state, and first Vice-President of the Assembly of Regions which
is part of the European Union setup 1999-2000.
President of the Assembly of European Regions. Died
of a hard attack on new years eve. She
lived
(1941-2006). |
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2004-05, 2005 Acting Minister and
2005-06
Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixera, Guyana |
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1992-98
Senior Minister of Health,
1998-2006 Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.
She was Acting Foreign Minister in
1998, 2002 and 2003.
Appointed Chairperson of the Committee on Governance in the Office of the
President in 2006. |
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2005-06 Minister of Security
Betty Akech,
Uganda |
1999-2002
State
Minister of Local Government,
2002-03 State
Minister for Higher Education
and
2003-05
State Minister for Security.
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2005- Minister
of Home Affairs and Internal Security Anna Kachikho, Malawi |
2005 Deputy Minister of Education and Human
Resources. (b. 1955-).
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2005- Minister of Interior Affairs Adriana del Piano Puelma,
Región Metropolitana de Santiago
(Chile) |
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Minister of Natural Assets 1994-99, eputy
Leader of the Election Campaign of President Lagos in 1999, Minister
Women’s Affairs 2000-03, Subsecretary of Regional Development,
2003-2005,
Intendent of the
Región Metropolitana de Santiago
from 2007. (b. 1947-) |
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2005- Minister
of Home Affairs and Immigration
Rosalia Nghidinwa,
Namibia |
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2000-05
Deputy Minister of Labour. (b. 1952-) |
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2006-
Secretary of State of Internal Affairs and Civil Protection and Accomplishment
of the Programme Valeria Ciavatta, San Marino
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2003-04
Capitano Reggente and
President of
Alleanza Popolare in 2005. (b. 1959-). |
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2006-07
Minister of Interior Alicia Muñoz Alá, Bolivia |
Elected
Communist Senator in 2005. (b. 1951-)
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2006-
Minister of Interior and Justice Olga
Gólcher, Panama |
Deputy Mayor of the City of Panamá 1987-89 and later Vice-President and
President of the Association of Lawyers,
2004-06 Vice-Minister
of Interior and Justice
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2006-
Minister of Interior Gordana Jankulovska, Macedonia |
MP for
VMRO-DPMNE. There were speculations that her party would nominate her for
the post of Parliamentary Speaker. (b. 1975-).
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2006-07
Minister of Interior Pilar Mazzetti Soler,
Peru |
2004 Vice-Minister of Health and 2004-06 Minister of Health
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2007-
Minister of Interior
Michèle Alliot-Marie,
France
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1986-88
Secretary of State for Education, 1993-95 Minister of Youth and
Sports.
From 1994 1. Vice-President of the General Council of the Department of
Pyrénées-
Atlantique, 1999-2002
President of RPR, Rally for the Republic. Minister of Defence 2002-07. (b. 1946-)
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2007- Secretary of State of the Home Office
Jacqui Smith, United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland |
1999-2001 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Education and Employment for Lifelong Learning,
2001-03 Minister of State of Health,
2003-05 Minister of state for Trade and Industry and
Deputy Minister for Women, Privy Councillor,
2005-06 Minister of State of Education and Skills (Schools) (Deputy to the
Secretary of State) and
2006-07 Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury.
(b. 1962-).
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2007- Minister of Interior and Kingdom Relations Guusje ter Horst,
The Netherlands |
Municipal Councillor for PvdA before she was government appointed Mayor of
Nijmegen 2001-07. (b. 1952-).
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2007- Minister of Interior Ana Isabel
Morales Mazún, Nicaragua |
Former Sandinist
guerrilla leader, she worked for a number of years in the Ministry and as a
lawyer
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2007- Minister of Interior
Adela Camacho de Torrebiarte, Guatemala |
Civil servant, President of the National Football Association amd FIA
Delegate 2001-03
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2007- Minister of
Interior Daisy Tourné, Uruguay |
Socialist MP since 1995 and member of the leftwing alliance, in 2005 she was
designated as the future President of the Chamber of Representatives
for the legislative year of 2008-09, but
instead she jointed the government. (b. 1951-).
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2008-
Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Interior Policy Đurđa Adlešić,
Croatia |
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Djurda Adelesic is former Mayor of Bjelovar, Vice-President of the
Social Liberal Party, HSLS 2000-06 and then Leader of a new party formed
as a merger between the
Croatian
Social-Liberal Party and Liberal Party
- also named HSLS. Around 2000 and 2001-08 President of the
Parliamentary Committee on National Security. 2001 Deputy Foreign
Minister, 2004-08 Vice-President of the Sabor and 2005 Presidential
Candidate.
(b. 1960-). |
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2008- Minister
of Interior, Police and Public Security Janina del Vecchio Ugalde, Costa Rica |
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Former Chief of Cabinet for President, Ambassador to
Spain, Rome, Italy, the Vatican, and Switzerland and MP until 2008. (b.
1946-).
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