Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights for over 40 years, on issues of democracy, civil liberties, social equality, environmental protection, peace and global justice. From 1971, he was a leading activist in the Gay Liberation Front in London.Peter was the defeated Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election. He co-founded the queer rights group OutRage! in 1990. In 1999, in London, he ambushed the motorcade of the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe; attempting a citizen's arrest on charges of torture. A repeat attempt in Brussels in 2001 resulted in him being beaten unconscious by Mugabe's bodyguards.He was voted the sixth greatest "Hero of our Time" by readers of the New Statesman and The Independent listed him as one of top 50 "Good" people in Britain in 2006. In 2009 he won Campaigner of the Year at the Observer Ethical Awards. Peter is the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East. More info: www.petertatchell.net and www.greenoxford.com/peter.