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Betsy Apple
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
Fax: 718-625-3864
ba2146@columbia.edu
Biography:
Betsy Apple, deputy director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), has been a lawyer and activist for women's rights, human rights, and environmental issues for the past 14 years.
Prior to joining WEDO in 2004, Betsy was a managing director and senior attorney at EarthRights International, an NGO working at the intersection of human rights and environmental abuses, where she started the Women's Rights Project. She has also served as the director of an international human rights campaign, a consultant to the government-in-exile of Burma on women's human rights issues, and a legal aid lawyer focused on legal issues affecting women and children in poverty. She has authored articles and reports about human rights abuses in Burma, the Alien Tort Claims Act, corporate accountability, and environmental rights, among other topics.