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何秀蘭1954年7月24日在香港出生，是香港泛民主派政治人物與社會運動者，長期爭取普選、人權與社會公義。她父親是市政局司機，家中有兩個家庭、九名子女，母親是正室，靠縫紉維生；父母關係不睦，她十三歲時父親去世。她小時住在銅鑼灣唐樓的合租房，1965年畢業於佛教黃焯菴小學，1970年於佛教黃鳳翎中學中五畢業，其後在香港浸會學院（今香港浸會大學）修讀英國文學三年，1977年至1979年以交換生身份赴加拿大滑鐵盧大學，因學分不足未取得學位，回港後在美資公司任時裝採購經理。1991年，她自薦到劉慧卿辦事處義務助選，開始投身政治；1993年與其他民主派人士組成壓力團體蟻聯，1995年辭去採購工作，全職任立法局議員吳靄儀的助理，1996年與劉慧卿等人成立論政團體前綫，並出任首任召集人。1998年，她與劉慧卿合組名單參選首屆立法會新界東直選，雙雙當選，名單共得約十萬票、得票率約三成。2000年她轉戰香港島選區並當選；2004年與余若薇合組名單再選香港島，結果余若薇當選而她落敗。離開議會後，她出任香港人權監察主席，並與鍾庭耀、陳家洛等研究直接民主與全民投票。2008年她以不足一成得票驚險奪得香港島末席重返立法會，2012年成功連任。任內她關注勞工、婦女、兒童與小眾權益，曾就最低工資、標準工時、公屋供應、警方武力及新聞自由等議題發聲，並推動立法禁止性傾向歧視。2011年12月，她與李卓人、張國柱等人創立工黨，出任副主席。2021年，她因組織及參與未經批准集結被起訴，認罪後被判監，總刑期21個月，至2022年6月11日刑滿出獄。她的從政路線由社區與人權工作開始，其後進入議事堂，關注議題涵蓋勞工、性別、少數族裔與環境等範疇。
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Cyd Ho Sau-lan was born in Hong Kong on 24 July 1954 and is a pro-democracy politician and social activist who has campaigned for universal suffrage, human rights and social justice. Her father drove for the Urban Council and kept two households with nine children; her mother was the first wife and worked as a seamstress, and the parents were on poor terms, her father dying when she was thirteen. She grew up in a subdivided tenement flat in Causeway Bay, finished primary school in 1965 and secondary school in 1970, then studied English literature at Hong Kong Baptist College for three years and spent 1977 to 1979 as an exchange student in the German department of the University of Waterloo in Canada, leaving without a degree for lack of credits; back in Hong Kong she became a fashion-buying manager at an American firm. In 1991 she volunteered in Emily Lau's election office, and from there moved into politics, co-founding the pressure group Ant Federation in 1993, leaving her buying job in 1995 to work full time for the legislator Margaret Ng, and in 1996 co-founding the discussion group Frontier, of which she was the first convenor. In 1998 she and Emily Lau ran on a joint ticket in New Territories East in the first Legislative Council election and were both returned, their list taking about 100,000 votes, or roughly thirty per cent. She moved to the Hong Kong Island constituency in 2000 and won, but in 2004, running with Audrey Eu, she lost while Eu was returned. Out of the council she chaired Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor and studied direct democracy and referendums with the researchers Chung Ting-yiu and Chan Ka-lok. In 2008 she scraped the last Hong Kong Island seat with under ten per cent of the vote and in 2012 was re-elected. In office she championed workers, women, children and minorities, speaking on the minimum wage, standard working hours, public housing, police force and press freedom, and pushed for legislation against sexual-orientation discrimination. In December 2011 she co-founded the Labour Party with Lee Cheuk-yan and Cheung Kwok-che as vice-chairwoman. In 2021 she was prosecuted for organising and taking part in unauthorised assemblies, pleaded guilty and was jailed for a total of 21 months, leaving prison on 11 June 2022. Her career moved from community and human-rights work into the legislature, covering labour, gender, ethnic minorities and the environment.
