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CONTRIBUTORS
continues to teach. She is an expert advisor to the UN Task Force on the right to
development and has published on the right to development, including in relation
to the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, and on the related topics of
international cooperation and global justice. Margot is currently working on a book
addressing global poverty and the development of international law to be
published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
Lee Swepston is Chief of the Equality and Employment Branch, International
Labour Standards Department, International Labour Office, Geneva.
Duncan Wilson holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law (distinction)
(Lund), and is Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Coordinator for Amnesty
International. He is also Research Coordinator of the Right to Education Project.
Previously Duncan was a human rights consultant to UNESCO International Bureau
of Education and Division of Basic Education, and a researcher at the Raoul
Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He has international
teaching and training experience in human rights and is author of a number of
articles and reports on the right to education.
Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH (Harvard), is an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public
Health, although most of the year she lives in Latin America, where she works with
NGOs on health, development policies and human rights. In the US, Yamin is on
the Boards of the Center for Economic and Social Rights and Mental Disability
Rights International and on advisory boards of the Physicians for Human Rights
and the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health. Recent publications
include: ‘The future in the mirror: Constructing and de-constructing strategies for
the defense and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights’, Human Rights
Quarterly, (2005); ‘Embodying shadows: Tracing the contours of women’s rights to
health’, in From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human
Rights (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); and ‘Not just a tragedy: Access to medications
as a right under international law’, (Boston University International Law Journal,
2003).