Megan Davis

Megan Davis (born 1975) is an Aboriginal activist and human rights lawyer. She was the first indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body and she is now Chair of a UN permanent forum.

Life

Davis was born in Monto in 1975. Her family moved along the Queensland Railway. Her ancestry is Australian, Aborigine and South Pacific islander.[1] She was in time brought up by a single parent and one of her earliest interests was the United Nations General Assembly.[2] Davis calls herself a Cobble Cobble indigenous woman from south-east Queensland.[3]

Davis is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and in addition she directs the Indigenous Law Centre there. She is on the Australian Government's expert panel on the country's indigenous people.[3]

In 2010, she became the first Indigenous Australian woman to be elected to a United Nations body when she was appointed to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues[4] which is based in New York.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Five questions to Megan Davis: on Aboriginal self-determination, 16 May 2014, The Guardian, Retrieved 12 August 2016
  2. ↑ UNSW human rights lawyer Professor Megan Davis has been elected Chair of the United Nation's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 22 April 2015, UNSW.edu.au, Retrieved 12 August 2016
  3. 1 2 Randall Abate; Elizabeth Ann Kronk (1 January 2013). Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-78100-180-6.
  4. ↑ Megan Davis, womenaustralia.info, Retrieved 11 August 2016
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