Member of British parliament to discuss Syria at May 9 Newsmaker

Lady Caroline Cox, the Baroness Cox of Queensbury and a senior member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, plans to discuss her efforts to bring humanitarian relief to Syria at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference on Tuesday, May 9, at 10 a.m. in the Club's Bloomberg Room.

This news conference is open to credentialed media and Club members, free of charge.

Baroness Cox was recently in Aleppo, Syria, meeting with aid organizations and political groups while the city was being bombed. During her time in Syria, she met with civilians who had been attacked.

As a member of the House of Lords and as a lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies, she was one of the first politicians to raise the issue of radical Islam and its terrorist threat -- long before 9/11.

Lady Caroline, a 79-year-old grandmother, has literally dodged sniper fire, land mines, and bombs in Syria and elsewhere to bring humanitarian aid to people cut off from assistance. Earlier in her career, she served as a Baroness-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She also worked closely with the late Diana, Princess of Wales, at a children's charity.