CONTRIBUTORS Contributors Pooja Ahluwalia holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law, University of Essex, UK, and an LLB, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. She is the Legal Officer at the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO), Secretariat and Consultant Researcher for the Center for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) both in New Delhi. Formerly she was Legal Consultant at the UNHCR also in New Delhi. Iain Byrne is Commonwealth Law Officer at Interights and Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, Essex University. He has worked as a consultant and trainer on human rights and good governance for the British Council and the UN in Zimbabwe, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Georgia and Brazil. Publications include: The Human Rights of Street Children: A Practical Manual for Advocates and Blackstone’s Human Rights Digest. In 2003 he gave evidence to the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Joint Select Committee on incorporation of the ICESCR. He recently co-edited a special edition of Mediterranean Politics (Autumn 2004) on Mainstreaming Economic and Social Rights in the EU Development Programmes and is currently conducting a UK audit of economic, social and cultural rights. Fergus MacKay is a human rights lawyer who primarily focuses on the rights of indigenous peoples. He has worked as an attorney for indigenous peoples in Alaska and was legal advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples for five years. He is presently Coordinator of the Three Guyanas Programme, working with indigenous and tribal peoples in Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, and is coordinator of the Human Rights and Legal Programme of the UK-based NGO, the Forest Peoples Programme. He has litigated a number of cases before the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2003, he served as a member of the advisory panel of the Eminent Person conducting the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review. Margot E. Salomon, PhD (LSE), was Legal Standards Officer at Minority Rights Group International from 1999-2004. In this role, she represented MRG to the United Nations and to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and advised governments on minority rights in areas of foreign policy. She is now a lecturer at the London School of Economics’ Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Law; and since 2003 has been Course Convener in Human Rights and Development on the LLM at the University of Essex, where she 123