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Betsy Apple
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
ba2146@columbia.edu
Biography:
Betsy Apple teaches International Human Rights Law.
Apple is the Legal Director and General Counsel for AIDS-Free World, an international organization that conducts advocacy and legal work to address human rights violations exacerbating or emerging out of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Before joining AIDS-Free World, Apple was the Director of the Crimes Against Humanity program at Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights). She also served as Deputy Director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), based in New York. Prior to that, she was the managing and legal director of EarthRights International, in Thailand and the U.S., where she focused on government and corporate accountability for human rights violations and environmental abuses.
Apple has served as legal consultant to various institutions including Harvard Law School's Human Rights Clinic, Refugees International, and the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. Earlier in her career, Apple worked with the Volunteer Legal Services Program in San Francisco, focusing primarily upon family law and civil rights. She also practiced employment and commercial litigation at the San Francisco law firm of Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon.
Apple has authored or coauthored numerous human rights reports, including Electing to Rape: Sexual Terror in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
She holds degrees from Brown University and Boston College Law School.
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