Megan Davis

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

Davis in 2017

Life

Davis was born in Monto in 1975. Her family moved along the Queensland Railway. Her ancestry is Aboriginal Australian 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 is a Cobble Cobble Aboriginal 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]

Davis was a member of the Referendum Council appointed in 2015, which designed a series of dialogues which culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017.[5]

In October 2018 Professor Davis was named overall winner of The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence award.[6]

Davis has an association with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga in New Zealand.[7]

Davis was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2017 and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.[8]

References
  1. 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 Archived 8 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 22 April 2015, UNSW.edu.au, Retrieved 12 August 2016
  3. 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
  5. "Get the facts". Referendum Council. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2020. Text from this source, which is available under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. (See here.)
  6. Patten, Sally (17 October 2018). "Women of Influence 2018 winner fights for recognition of Indigenous Australians". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  7. "Professor Megan Davis | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". www.maramatanga.co.nz. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  8. "Academy Fellow: Professor Megan Davis FASSA, FAAL". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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