Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE

Row for Freedom

History & Biography

“Some stories are the stuff of legend-making and must be told. They are tales of heroism and duty and relentless determined passion. Julia’s story is all of that—it is also the potent pursuit of purpose. This journey in words gives us just an inkling of both the horrors of human trafficking and the grit one woman has to stand up and state her anger at the peddlers of injustice, with a cry for freedom and a row that stretches even the most insistent to adoration and respect. The fact that nations now are alert to this ugly money-grabbing system of trading human lives, and governments are acting to reverse the tide again, is in some major part a tribute to this woman and to her agony for freedom—for her and for the captives, it is just beautiful.”