Ms. Sidney Thompson, B.A. (Toronto), is an associate fellow with the CISDL, focussing on gender, development and human rights.  Working with grassroots NGOs she has conducted research on gender roles and work among ethnic minority groups in Northern Thailand; lobbied for women’s rights to land in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and has worked as a gender and development consultant in Toronto, Canada.  She has also documented human rights abuses in prisons in Cambodia with the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.  Ms. Thompson is currently a B.C.L/LL.B candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law where her research interests have focussed on the intersection of business and human rights in Africa, in particular the liability of multinational corporations for abuses of human rights, odious debt, and private military companies under humanitarian law. She speaks English and French and has conversational Spanish, Thai, and Kiswahili.