Annabel Webb and Margot Young

Annabel Webb, BA MA (UBC), MSt (Oxon), is a Canadian human rights practitioner who has worked for more than two decades to promote the rights of women and girls across a broad spectrum of social, economic, and environmental justice issues. Annabel is a David Suzuki Fellow and was the 2009 Social Justice visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia Law School. She holds degrees in psychology from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Studies (awarded with distinction) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of London. She is the Director of Human Rights and Climate Change at Just Planet, an international human rights organization founded by graduates and supported by faculty of the International Human Rights Law program at the University of Oxford. She is also the president and co-founder of Justice for Girls, a Canadian NGO that promotes the rights of teen girls who live in poverty. She is an Associate of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.  
Margot Young is Professor at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia.  She is also a board member of Justice for Girls http://www.justiceforgirls.org/.

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Canada’s Failure: Climate Change and International Human Rights

Canada’s Failure: Climate Change and International Human Rights

“While I was breathing in wildfire smoke last month with Vancouver’s air quality rated worst in the world, Canadian government lawyers were preparing arguments to silence me.” This statement was made to the UN Committee on the Rights ...