Signatories Of Open Letter To UN Human Rights Council - 25 January 2022
More than 460 current and former United Nations officials, human rights and legal experts, and international NGOs and academic institutions have written to the UN Human Rights Council calling for an international inquiry into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran. The letter urges the HRC to challenge the impunity enjoyed by Iranian officials by mandating an international investigation into the 1988 mass executions and enforced disappearances. Read the full text of the letter.
The JVMI issued a press release about the open letter on 27 January. Read our statement here.
Here are the 470 signatories:
Co-Signatory NGOs
Distinguished Signatories
Ricardo Lagos Escobar
President of Chile (2000-2006); UN Special Envoy on Climate Change (2007-2010); President of Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo (FDD) - (Chile)
Jacques Santer
Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1984-1995); President of the European Commission (1995-1999) - (Luxembourg)
Sang-Hyun Song
President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2009-2015) - (South Korea)
Joachim Rücker
President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015); Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN in Geneva (2014-2016); Inspector General of the Federal Foreign Office (2011-2014); Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (2006-2008) - (Germany)
Sir Howard Morrison QC
President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2012-2018 & 2020-2021); former Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - (United Kingdom)
José Luís da Cruz Vilaça
President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (1989-1995); Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2012-2018); Member of the Portuguese Government (1980-1983); Professor of EU Law; Attorney at law, founder and managing partner of Cruz Vilaça Advogados - (Portugal)
Jose Ramos-Horta
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize; former President of Timor-Leste (East Timor); Chair of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy; Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau and Head of UNIOGBIS (2013-2014) - (Timor-Leste)
Dr. Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury; former Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge - (United Kingdom)
Amb. Claude Heller
President of the UN Security Council (2009 & 2010); Former Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN - (Mexico)
Guy Verhofstadt MEP
Prime Minister of Belgium (1999-2008); President of the Council of the European Union (2001-2001); Member of the European Parliament - (Belgium)
Juan E. Méndez
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010-2016); UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2004-2007); former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States - (Argentina)
Pablo de Greiff
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence (2012-2018); Rapporteur, UN Human Rights Council Experts' Group on Prevention (2019-2020); Member, UN Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) (2015-2016); Director, Prevention Project & Transitional Justice Program, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, New York University; Member, UN Secretary General’s Civil Society Advisory Board (2019-) - (Colombia)
Leila Nadya Sadat
Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-present); Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative; James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University Law School - (United States)
Tim McCormack
Special Adviser on War Crimes to the ICC Prosecutor (2010-present); Professor of International Law, The University of Tasmania - (Australia)
Christine Van den Wyngaert
Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor (2021-present); Judge, Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) (2017-present); Judge, International Criminal Court (2009-2018); Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice (ICJ) (2000-2002); Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2003–2009) - (Belgium)
Kevin Jon Heller
Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen (Centre for Military Studies); Professor of Law, Australian National University - (United States)
Karen Smith
UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021) - (South Africa)
Jennifer Welsh
UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2013-2016); Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance & Security, McGill University - (Canada)
Buhm-Suk Baek
Member, UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee; Professor, Kyung Hee University - (South Korea)
Catherine Van de Heyning
Member, UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee; Professor of fundamental rights, University of Antwerp - (Belgium)
Claudio Grossman
Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (2016-present); Chair, ILC’s Drafting Committee (2019); President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) (2014-present); President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (1996, 2001); Chair, UN Committee against Torture (CAT) (4 terms, from 2008-2015); Chair, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (2013) - (Chile)
Stefan Trechsel
President of the European Commission of Human Rights (1995–1999); Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2006-2013) - (Switzerland)
Yasmin Sooka
Human rights lawyer; Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, former Commissioner, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; former Commissioner, Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Honorary Fellow, University of Cape Town - (South Africa)
Michael Lynk
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University - (Canada)
Margaret M. deGuzman
Judge, UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals; Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for International Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law - (United States)
Ana Salinas de Frías
Ad Hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Professor, Law Faculty of the University of Málaga, Spain; President, Spanish Society of International Law (AEPDIRI) - (Spain)
Anne Ramberg
Co-Chair, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI); Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Board Member, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Chair, Board of Uppsala University; former Secretary General, Swedish Bar Association - (Sweden)
Annalisa Ciampi
Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association; Professor of International Law, University of Verona; member of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe (2008-2009); former Legal Adviser to the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs - (Italy)
Hon. Richard J. Goldstone
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Honorary President of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) - (South Africa)
Thomas Hammarberg
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (2006-2012); Secretary General of the Stockholm-based Olof Palme International Center (2002–2005); Ambassador of the Swedish Government on Humanitarian Affairs (1994–2002); Secretary General of the NGO “Save the Children Sweden” (1986–1992); Secretary General of Amnesty International (1980–1986); representative of the UN Secretary General for human rights in Cambodia (1996-2000); Member of Parliament (2018-present) - (Sweden)
Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO (1997-2000) - (United States)
Amb. Stephen J. Rapp
Former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015); former Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) (2007-2009); Senior Fellow at Center for the Prevention of Genocide of US Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Center for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict (ELAC) of Oxford University - (United States)
Gay McDougall
UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues (2005-2011); Member-Elect, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) (Vice Chair 2018-2019); Senior Fellow and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice / Center for Race, Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law - (United States)
Christian Tomuschat
Professor em. Humboldt University Berlin; President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (2013-2019); Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1977-1986); Member and Chairman of the UN International Law Commission (1985-1996); Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission on the human rights situation in Guatemala (1990-1993); Coordinator, Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), Guatemala (1997-1999) - (Germany)
Marc Bossuyt
Vice Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD); President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium (2007-2014); Em. Professor, Antwerp University - (Belgium)
Hon. Gareth Evans AC QC
President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia; Chancellor of Australian National University (2010-2019); former member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on Genocide - (Australia)
John Baird
Former Foreign Minister of Canada - (Canada)
Giulio Terzi
Former Foreign Minister of Italy; former Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN; former Ambassador of Italy to the US - (Italy)
Petrit Selimi
Former Foreign Minister of Republic of Kosovo - (Kosovo)
Radosław Sikorski MEP
Member of the European Parliament; former Foreign Minister of Poland - (Poland)
Amb. Hans Corell
Former Judge of Appeal; former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004); former Co-Chair of the Council of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute - (Sweden)
Mike Smith
Former Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea; former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN in New York; Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (2007-2013) - (Australia)
Frej Fenniche
Former Chief of Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch (APMENAB) at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, based in Geneva (2015-2017) - (Switzerland)
William A. Schabas
Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (2014-2015); member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004); Chair of the Board of Trustees at the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (2009-2011); President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011); President of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation (2021-present); professor of international law at Middlesex University in London - (Canada)
Geoffrey Robertson QC
First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); ‘Distinguished jurist’ on the UN Internal Justice Council (2008-2012); Founder and Head, Doughty Street Chambers; author ‘Crimes Against Humanity,’ ‘Mullahs without Mercy’ and ‘The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran, 1988’ - (Australia)
Sir Geoffrey Nice QC
Lead prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milošević in The Hague; prosecuted the case of Bosnian Croat Dario Kordić at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), successfully prosecuted Goran Jelisić at the ICTY - (United Kingdom)
Robert K. Goldman
Former UN Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; former President and member, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); current President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Professor of Law & Louis C James Scholar, Washington College of Law, American University - (United States)
Pierre d’Argent
Professor, Law Faculty of the University of Louvain; Member, Institute of International Law (IIL); Member, Brussels Bar; President, European Society of International Law (ESIL); First Secretary of the International Court of Justice (2009-2011) - (Belgium)
Mark Ellis
Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA); former Chair of the UN Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals - (United Kingdom)
Sternford Moyo
President, International Bar Association (IBA) - (Zimbabwe)
Melanie O'Brien
Associate Professor of International Law, University of Western Australia - (Australia)
Klaus U. Rackwitz
Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy, Nuremberg - (Germany)
Theo van Boven
Former Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights (1977-1982); former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2001-2004) - (The Netherlands)
Manfred Nowak
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004-2010); former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina - (Austria)
Maud De Boer-Buquicchio
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (2014-2020); former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe - (The Netherlands)
Jean Ziegler
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008); former Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - (Switzerland)
Michel Forst
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (2014-2020); former UN Independent Expert on Haiti (2008-2013) - (France)
Dubravka Šimonovic
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2015-2021); former Chairperson of UN CEDAW; Chairperson of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2001-2002) - (Croatia)
Joseph A. Cannataci
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2015-2021); Chair in European Information Policy & Technology Law; Co-Director, Security, Technology & e-Privacy (STeP) Research Group, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Head of Department of Information Policy & Governance, University of Malta; Senior Fellow and Associate Researcher at the CNAM Security-Defense-Intelligence Department, Paris, France - (Malta)
Gabriela Knaul
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015) - (Brazil)
Gulnara Shahinian
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences (2008-2014) - (Armenia)
Yakin Ertürk
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2003-2009); Prof emeritus, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women (1999-2001); Member, Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture (2009-2013) - (Turkey)
François Crépeau
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017); Faculty of Law, McGill University - (Canada)
Heiner Bielefeldt
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-2016); former Director, German Institute for Human Rights / Deutsche Institut für Menschenrechte (DIMR) - (Germany)
Urmila Bhoola
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (2014-2020) - (South Africa)
Dainius Pūras
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2014-2020); Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute / VŠĮ Žmogaus Teisių Stebėjimo Institutas - (Lithuania)
Okechukwu Ibeanu
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights (2004-2010) - (Nigeria)
Catarina de Albuquerque
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (2008-2014); Chair of the UN Working Group in charge of drafting an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2004-2008) - (Portugal)
John H. Knox
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2012-2018); Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University School of Law - (United States)
Fantu Cheru
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment; Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy at American University, Washington, DC - (Ethiopia/United States)
Léo Heller
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2014-2020) - (Brazil)
Yanghee Lee
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (2014-2020); former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child - (South Korea)
S. James Anaya
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - (United States)
Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (1999-2005) - (Costa Rica)
Anand Grover
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014); Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University, Washington; Member, Global Commission on Drug Policy; Director, Lawyers Collective - (India)
Rashida Manjoo
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009-2015); Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town - (South Africa)
Santiago Corcuera-Cabezut
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); former Chair of the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances; former Chair of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council - (Mexico)
Houria Esslami
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) - (Morocco)
Ariel E. Dulitzky
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); Director of the Human Rights Clinic of the School of Law at University of Texas at Austin - (Argentina)
Jeremy Sarkin
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) - (South Africa)
José Luis Gómez del Prado
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries - (Spain)
Gabor Rona
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries; former International Legal Director of Human Rights First; Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School - (United States)
Alda M. Facio
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls - (Costa Rica)
Saeed Mokbil
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries - (Yemen)
Alfred De Zayas
Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2012-2018) - (United States)
Santiago A. Cantón
Former Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; former Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); former Director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights; Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue - (Argentina)
Uldis Ķinis
Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2008-2011); Justice and Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia (2007-2017) - (Latvia)
Ad Melkert
Former Special Representative for Iraq of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI); former UN Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) - (The Netherlands)
Wolfgang Schomburg
Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2008); former Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - (Germany)
Marek Antoni Nowicki
Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo; former UN-appointed International Ombudsperson in Kosovo (2000-2005); former member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999) - (Poland)
Sonja Biserko
Former Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea (DPRK); founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia - (Serbia)
Giovanni Grasso
Former International Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Judge of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina - (Italy)
Ken Scott
Former member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan; former Special Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; former senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2011); former Assistant US Attorney and Chief of the Complex Prosecutions Section in the prosecution office (1985-1997) - (United States)
Eric David
Former member of the UN-affiliated International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (2006-2016); International Public Law Professor. Em., Université Libre de Bruxelles - (Belgium)
Andrzej Rzepliński
Member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (1994-2004); Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2004-2008); President of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland (2010-2016); Member of the Advisory Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2013-present) - (Poland)
Graham Blewitt AM
Former Magistrate; Deputy Chief Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2004) - (Australia)
David M. Crane
Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; Founder, Global Accountability Network - (United States)
Yoko Hayashi
Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (2015-2016) - (Japan)
Hans-Christof von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq - (Germany)
Curt Goering
Head of the Gaza Office for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2009-2010); Executive Director, Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) (2012-2021); former Chief Operating Officer, Amnesty International USA; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University - (United States)
Apuk Hiljmnijeta
Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013; Director, Little People of Kosova; Member, Ad Hoc Committee of the UN General Assembly on drafting of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - (Kosovo)
Rt. Hon. Sir David Edward
Former Judge, European Court of Justice (1992-2004); Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh - (United Kingdom)
Sir Nicholas Forwood QC
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union (1999-2015) - (United Kingdom)
Valeriu M. Ciucă
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010) - (Romania)
Josef Azizi
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013) - (Austria)
Rui Manuel Gens Moura Ramos
Former Judge of the General Court of the European Union (1995-2003); former President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2007-2012) - (Portugal)
Vilenas Vadapalas
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013) - (Lithuania)
Sir Francis Jacobs QC
Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (1988-2006); President of the European Law Institute (ELI) (2011-2013); President of the Centre of European Law at King’s College London; President of the United Kingdom Association for European Law (to 2014); President of the UNIDROIT Administrative Tribunal; Governor of the British Institute of Human Rights - (United Kingdom)
Miguel Poiares Maduro
Advocate General, European Court of Justice (2003-2009); Professor, Director of the Global Governance Programme, European University Institute (2009-present) - (Portugal)
Eleanor Sharpston QC
Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2006-2020) - (United Kingdom)
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
Former President of the Constitutional Court of Andorra (2014-2016); Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Universite de Paris 1) - (France)
Maude Barlow
Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians - (Canada)
Reed Brody
Member, International Commission of Jurists; former Deputy Chief of the UN Secretary-General’s Investigative Team in the Democratic Republic of Congo; former Director of the Human Rights Division of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) - (United States)
Fannie Lafontaine
Professor, Faculty of Law, Université Laval; Canada Research Chair in International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Université Laval; Special Adviser and Human Rights Officer, Executive Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2005-2006); Human Rights Officer and Special Assistant to the President of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur (2004-2005); Project Director, Canadian Partnership for International Justice; Co-Director, International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Clinic (ICHLC), Université Laval - (Canada)
Eleonora Zielińska
Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of law and Administration, Warsaw University; Member of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice (2010-2017) - (Poland)
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law; Deputy Registrar, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2012-2017) - (United Kingdom)
Stephen P. Marks
Chair, High-Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development, UN Human Rights Council (2005-2010); Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; Director, Program on Human Rights in Development (PHRD), Harvard University - (United States)
Anna Wyrozumska
Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz; former Judge Ad hoc, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - (Poland)
Patrick Burgess
President, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR); former Director of Human Rights, UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN DPKO) Peacekeeping missions to Timor Leste; former Senior Member, Australian Refugee Tribunal - (Australia)
Sara Hossain
Former member, UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; former Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on Accountability in DPRK; Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh - (Bangladesh)
Tahar Boumedra
Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI); former Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office and Representative of the HCHR in Iraq - (United Kingdom)
Susan L. Bissell
Former Associate Director and Chief of Child Protection for UNICEF (2009-2015); Founding Director of Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children; Visiting Scholar and FXB Fellow at Harvard University - (Canada)
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips
Former lead prosecutor in 12 precedent-setting genocide trials before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda between 1998 and 2010; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Contributor, International Criminal Investigations: Law and Practice, 2017 - (United Kingdom & Nigeria)
Mikołaj Pietrzak
Former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture; Dean of the Warsaw Bar Association; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Poland)
Prof. Theresia Degener
Former Chairperson, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); Director of Bochum Center for Disability Studies (BODYS) - (Germany)
Clair Duffy
Former Prosecution Appeals Counsel, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - (Australia)
Prof. Cephas Lumina
United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights (2008-2014); Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017-2021) - (Zambia)
Irwin Cotler
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; Emeritus Professor of Law McGill University - (Canada)
Maria Candida Almeida
Former Deputy Attorney General at the Supreme Court of Justice; Member of the Advisory Board of the General Attorney’s Office; Director of the Central Department of Criminal Investigation; Deputy Director of the Center for Judicial Studies; Current President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of Jurist Women – (Portugal)
François Zimeray
French Human Rights Ambassador-at-large (2008-2013); Member of the European Parliament (1999-2004); Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark (2013-2018) - (France)
Baroness Boothroyd
Former Speaker of the House of Commons - (United Kingdom)
Lord Neil Kinnock
Vice President of the European Commission (1999-2004); Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Timothy J. Christian QC
Chief Federal Negotiator of the Government of Canada (1996–2010) and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta (1985-1995) - (Canada)
Amb. Ken Blackwell
Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights - (United States)
Brice Dickson
Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB); Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005) - (United Kingdom)
Claude Nicati
Deputy Prosecutor General of Switzerland (2001-2009); former President of the Government of the State of Neuchâtel (Switzerland); former investigating judge, Neuchâtel; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Switzerland)
Brig. Gen. Richard M. O’Meara
Lecturer, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Director, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University (2016-2018); Advisor, The Peace Boat (Academic Committee, UN affiliated international educational institution) (2018-); Faculty Associate, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University; Brigadier General, US Army (ret.); Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Operations, Washington DC (1996-2000) - (United States)
Baroness Verma
Former UK Energy & Climate Change Minister and former International Development Minister - (United Kingdom)
Ellen Samyn
Member of Parliament; Vice President of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee - (Belgium)
Senator Leo Housakos
Senator from Canada; former Speaker of the Senate of Canada (2015) - (Canada)
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Rt. Hon. David Jones MP
Member of Parliament; former UK Secretary of State for Wales - (United Kingdom)
Bob Blackman MP
Member of Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Steve McCabe MP
Member of Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Milan Zver MEP
Member of the European Parliament from Slovenia - (Slovenia)
Emanuelis Zingeris
Member of Parliament; Head, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - (Lithuania)
Rep. Patrick Kennedy
Former Member of the US House of Representatives - (United States)
Hon. David Kilgour
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (1994-1997); former Canadian Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa (1997-2002); and former Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific (2002-2003) - (Canada)
Hon. Tony Clement PC
Former Member of Parliament from Canada; former Canadian Minister of Industry; Minister of Health and President of the Treasury Board - (Canada)
Paul R. Milgrom
2020 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
Barry C. Barish
2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Joachim Frank
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Sir Fraser Stoddart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (France)
Oliver Hart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
David Wineland
2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
John C. Mather
2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics; Senior Project Scientist, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - (United States)
Roger Kornberg
2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
John L. Hall
2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Austria)
Finn E. Kydland
2004 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (Norway)
Sir Richard J. Roberts
1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Elias J. Corey
1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
John Polanyi
1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (Canada)
Dudley R. Herschbach
1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Roald Hoffmann
1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Sheldon Glashow
1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Juan E. Garcés
Spanish lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende; Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Director of “Garcés y Prada Abogados”, Madrid; President of the Spanish Foundation “President Allende” - (Spain)
Ingrid Betancourt
Former Senator and Presidential candidate - (Colombia)
Rev. William F. Schulz
Former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA (1994-2006); President Emeritus, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (United States)
Herman Schwartz
Professor of Law Emeritus at American University Washington College of Law - (United States)
Michael A. Newton
Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; Senior Adviser to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the US State Department (1999-2002); US representative on the UN Planning Mission for the Sierra Leone Special Court (2002); Expert Adviser to the UN Regional Center for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) (2013-2014) - (United States)
Frank Chalk
Professor of History and Founding Co-director, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University; President, the Association of Genocide Scholars (1999-2001) - (Canada)
Ben Kiernan
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University; Professor of International & Area Studies, MacMillan Center; Founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-1999); Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1998-2015) at Yale University; Convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-2002) - (United States)
David J. Simon
Director, Genocide Studies Program at Yale University - (United States)
Kyle Matthews
Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University - (Canada)
Debórah Dwork
Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY) - (United States)
Maxim Pensky
Co-director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University, NY - (United States)
Nadia Rubaii
Co-director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University, NY - (United States)
Manus I. Midlarsky
Director, Center for the Study of Mass Violence (CSMV), Rutgers University; Moses and Annuta Back Professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - (United States)
Victoria Sanford
Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI); Lehman Professor of Excellence, 2021-2024 - (United States)
Daniel Eduardo Feierstein
Director, Center for Genocide Studies - Centro de Estudios sobre Genocidio (CEG), National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF); President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) (2013-2015); Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Scholar at CONICET - (Argentina)
Joanna R. Quinn
Founding Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (TJ Centre), Western University - (Canada)
Valerie Oosterveld
Associate Director, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (TJ Centre), Western University; Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University - (Canada)
Eli L. Karetny
Deputy Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, at The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY) - (United States)
Eyal Benvenisti
Director of the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law; Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge - (Israel)
Michael J. Kelly
Senator Allen A. Sekt Endowed Chair in Law, Creighton University; Director, Nuremberg International Criminal Law Study Abroad Program, Creighton University School of Law - (United States)
Gerald Staberock
Secretary General of World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) - (Germany)
Mehnaz Afridi
Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan College - (United States)
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Member of the House of Lords; President, JUSTICE; Chair, British Council (1998-2004) - (United Kingdom)
Andreas Bummel
Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders - (Germany)
Uriel Epshtein
Executive Director, Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI) - (United States)
Dominique Attias
President, European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) - (France)
Ezechia Paolo Reale
Secretary General, The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Italy)
Carmen K. Cheung
Executive Director, Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) - (United States)
William H. Wiley
Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) - (Canada)
Sandra M. Coyle
Consulting Executive Director of World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP) - (United States)
György Tatár
Director, Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention (BCMAP); Head of EU Task Force for Conflict Prevention/Emerging Horizontal Security Issues (2004-2010) - (Hungary)
Ranjana Kumari
Director, Centre for Social Research (CSR); former Member, Task Force on Industrial Relations, International Labour Organization (ILO) - (India)
Rafael Uzcategui
General Coordinator, Programa Venezolano de Educación-Acción en Derechos Humanos (Venezuelan Program for Education and Action on Human Rights) (Provea) - (Venezuela)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Endowed Chair, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College; Co-Founder and Co-President, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention; Academic Board Member, Zoryan Institute; Former President, Genocide Watch; Former First Vice President, International Association of Genocide Scholars - (United States)
Irene Victoria Massimino
Former High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020); former Co-Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2015-2017); Member of the Resolutions Committee of the IAGS (2017-Present); Co-President of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention; Professor of Jurisprudence and Human Rights - (Argentina)
Ivana Žanić
Executive Director, Humanitarian Law Center - Fond za humanitarno pravo - (Serbia)
Bob Flax
Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions - (United States)
Toby Cadman
Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Gilbert Mitterrand
President, France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand - (France)
Antonio Stango
President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) - (Italy)
Stefan Braum
Professor of European Criminal Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg - (Luxembourg)
Pierre Bercis
President, Nouveaux Droits de l'Homme (NDH) - (France)
Akila Radhakrishnan
President, Global Justice Center - (United States)
Errol P. Mendes
President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section; Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Latest Book: Peace and Justice at the International Criminal Court, 2020 - (Canada)
Cheryl Lawther
Director, Human Rights Centre, Queen's University Belfast (QUB); Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Igor Bandović
Director, Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) - (Serbia)
James Silk
Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School; Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School - (United States)
Alexander Bellamy
Centre Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P); Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland - (Australia)
Elizabeth Silkes
Executive Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) - (United States)
Alejandro Baer
Stephen C. Feinstein Chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS); Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota - (United States)
Predrag Dojčinović
Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut; War Crimes expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2017) - (United States)
Almudena Bernabeu
Executive Director, Guernica Centre for International Justice - (Spain)
Dwayne Ryan Menezes
Founder and Managing Director, Human Security Centre (HSC) - (United Kingdom)
H. Peter Langille
Director, Sustainable Common Security - (Canada)
Hope R. Metcalf
Executive Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School - (United States)
Ellen J. Kennedy
Executive Director, World Without Genocide - (United States)
Kamal Sido
Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) / Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) - (Germany)
Eric Stover
Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - (United States)
Nelson Camilo Sánchez
Director, Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Virginia, School of Law - (Colombia)
Élise Le Gall
President, French Association for the Promotion of Universal Jurisdiction - Association Française pour la Promotion de la Compétence Universelle (AFPCU); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) - (United States)
Maxine Marcus
Director and Co-Founder, Partners in Justice International (PJI); former Legal and SGBV Advisor to the OHCHR Fact Finding Mission for Sri Lanka, the UN Secretary General’s CAR Independent Review Panel, and the UN Commission of Inquiry for Guinea; former Trial Attorney ICTY and Investigator SCSL - (Germany / United States)
Lindsay Freeman
Law and Policy Director of the Technology and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law - (United States)
Mabel Bianco
President of Foundation for Studies and Research on Women - Fundacion Para Estudio e Investigacion De la Mujer (FEIM); Co-Chair of the UN-affiliated Major Groups and other Stakeholders High-Level Political Forum Coordination Mechanism (MGoS HLPF CM) - (Argentina)
L. Kathleen Roberts
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Partners in Justice International (PJI); former Legal Director, Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) - (United States)
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Regius Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Essex; Director, Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Essex; Research Associate, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) - (Norway)
Stephen Eric Bronner
Co-Director, International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (ICDD); Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers University; Affiliate Distinguished Fellow, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR), Rutgers University - (United States)
Eric Heinze
Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London; Professor of Law & Humanities, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London - (United Kingdom)
Chris Mahony
CEO, Peloria; former United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Transitional Justice Global Focal Point; former Senior Political Economy Specialist, World Bank - (New Zealand)
Cynthia Tai
Executive Director and Founder, Project Expedite Justice (PEJ); former Senior Investigator and Senior Trial Lawyer at the ICC; pro tem Judge in the State of Hawaii - (United States)
Benjamin E. Goldsmith
Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); scholar in genocide and mass atrocities - (Australia)
Elazar Barkan
Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University; Director, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Human Rights Concentration; Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University - (United States)
Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR); Board Member, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) - (Kazakhstan)
Serena Oberstein
Executive Director, Jewish World Watch - (United States)
Samuel Munderere
Chief Executive, Survivors Fund (SURF) - (United Kingdom)
Binalakshmi Nepram
Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network/CAFI; Convenor, Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace; Founder, Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace; Fellow, CARR Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (India)
Tali Nates
Founder and Executive Director, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center - (South Africa)
Adam Muller
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba - (Canada)
Vincent Asselineau
Chair, European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Jerry P. White
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University; Director, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium - (Canada)
Robin Kirk
Faculty Co-Director, Duke Human Rights Center; Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University - (United States)
Lorraine Smith Van Lin
Executive Director, Tallawah Justice for Women; consultant on international law and human rights; former Prosecutor and Resident Magistrate - (Jamaica)
Jennifer Wright Knust
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University; Director, Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies; Co-Director, Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab - (United Kingdom)
Paulo Ilich Bacca
Director of the Ethnic and Racial Justice Area, Dejusticia; Lecturer in Legal Theory, Javeriana University - (Colombia)
Tom Ginsburg
Faculty Board Co-Chair, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago; Professor of International Law, University of Chicago - (United States)
Nana-Jo N’Dow
Founder and Executive Director, African Network against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances (ANEKED) - (Gambia)
Laurel E. Fletcher
Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC), University of California, Berkeley - (United States)
Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate
Executive Director, West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH) - (Togo)
Fabián O. Raimondo
Associate Professor of Public International Law, Maastricht University; Executive Director, Maastricht Blog on Transitional Justice (www.transitionaljustice.net); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Argentina)
Richard C. Dieter, J.D.
Former Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Adjunct Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America - (United States)
R. Bruce McColm
President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House - (United States)
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center - (United States)
Sergio D’Elia
Secretary General, Hands Off Cain - (Italy)
Lisa Forman
Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Global Health Equity, Associate Professor and Interim Director of PhD Program at the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences Division of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Nela Navarro
Associate Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR), Rutgers University; Associate Director, Rutgers English Language Institute (RELI) - (United States)
Alastair Logan OBE, LL.B
Council member of The Law Society of England and Wales, Chair of the Solicitors International Human Rights Group - (United Kingdom)
Ben Saul
Challis Chair of International Law, University of Sydney - (Australia)
Susan Benesch
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; Founding Director, Dangerous Speech Project - (United States)
Hans Noot
Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief - (The Netherlands)
Angana Chatterji
Co-chair, Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley - (United States)
Surabhi Ranganathan
Co-Acting Director, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, King's College, University of Cambridge - (United Kingdom)
Stephen Gardbaum
Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law; Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law - (United States)
Damien Short
Co-Director, Human Rights Consortium (HRC); Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Academic contributor, UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2011) - (United Kingdom)
Habib Nassar
Director of Policy and Research, Impunity Watch; former Senior Transitional Justice Advisor/Human Rights Officer, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - (The Netherlands)
Alexander Alvarez
Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values - (United States)
James Scott
Sterling Professor of Political Science; Director, Agrarian Studies Program; Professor of Anthropology, Yale University - (United States)
Darryl Robinson
Professor of international criminal law, Faculty of Law, Queen's University; Legal Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (1997-2004); Adviser to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2004-2006); former Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law - (Canada)
Roger S. Clark
Board of Governors Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School; Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1987-1990) - (New Zealand)
David S. Law
Professor of Law, University of Virginia; Former Consultant, Office of the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Yemen - (United States)
Sejal Parmar
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Sheffield; former Consultant, UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect - (United Kingdom)
Claudia M. Flores
Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago; former Senior Advisor on Gender and the Constitution for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Zimbabwe; former Legal Advisor for UN Women in East Timor - (United States)
Susan Lee Kemp
Member, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute Council; former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Judge Tom C. Rawlings
Former Director of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services and former Judge of the US Juvenile Courts - (United States)
Diana Constantinide
Barrister specialising in international criminal law and human rights, 33 Bedford Row, London; Member, International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) Counsel Support Staff Committee - (Cyprus)
Victor Tsilonis
Alternate Member, ICC Disciplinary Board (2018-2022); Greece's 2020 ICC Judicial Nominee; Vice-President for Victims of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Greece)
Andrew Woolford
Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Canada)
William Bourdon
International human rights lawyer; Founder of SHERPA; President of PPLAAF - (France)
Eric Sottas
Founder and former Secretary General of Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture - World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Switzerland)
Peter Haynes QC
President, International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) (2019-2021) - (United Kingdom)
Steven M. Schneebaum
International Law and Organizations Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University - (United States)
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain, former Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Sara Chandler QC
Council Member of the Law Society of England & Wales; former Chair of the Law Society’s Human Rights Committee; former President of the European Bars Federation (Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe - FBE) - (United Kingdom)
Kirsty Brimelow QC
Vice Chair of Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales; Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Princess Nwabueze Nwokolo
Council Member, The Law Society of England and Wales (TLS); Chair, UK’s Black Solicitors Network (BSN) - (Nigeria)
Amélie Lefebvre
Lawyer at the Paris Bar, Partner at Cabinet BOURDON & Associés - (France)
Kermit Roosevelt
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School - (United States)
Sir Ivan Lawrence QC
Barrister; former Recorder of the Crown Courts; former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee; Co-Chairman, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Eduardo Salvador Barcesat
Professor of Constitutional Law of Argentina, University of Buenos Aires (UBA); Member of the Constitutional Assembly of Argentina (1994) - (Argentina)
Yasushi Higashizawa
Professor, Faculty of Law, Meijigakuin University; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Japan)
Abbé Jolles
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Felicity Gerry QC
Barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London; Professor of Legal Practice, Deakin University; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
James Wood QC
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Jonathan Elystan Rees QC
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Diana Ellis QC
Barrister, 25 Bedford Row; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Peter Carter QC
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC); patron of Amicus - (United Kingdom)
Hon. Jocelynne A. Scutt
Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham; former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania; former judge on the High Court of Fiji - (Australia)
Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Max du Plessis
Senior Counsel, Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University; Senior Research Associate at Institute for Security Studies; Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers of London - (South Africa)
Brian Kennedy
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
François Larocque
Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa; Fellow 2021, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation - (Canada)
Natasha Lindstaedt
Faculty Dean of Education (Social Sciences UG), Department of Government, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Lyndall Ryan
Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia; Head of the School of Humanities, University of Newcastle (1999-2003) - (Australia)
Caroline I. Fournet
Professor of Law, Law School, University of Exeter - (United Kingdom)
James E. Waller
Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College - (United States)
David E. Pettigrew
Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University; Member, Steering Committee, Genocide Studies Program at Yale University; Board Member, Bosnian-American Genocide Institute and Education Center, Chicago, IL - (United States)
Jay Winter
Professor Emeritus at Yale University; Member, Steering Committee, Genocide Studies Program at Yale University - (United States)
Maureen S. Hiebert
Associate Professor of Political Science and Graduate Program Director, Centre for Military, Security & Strategic Studies, University of Calgary; Genocide scholar; author Constructions of Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity (Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2017) - (Canada)
Zachary D. Kaufman
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, University of Houston Law Center - (United States)
Eve Zucker
Lecturer at Yale University; Member, Steering Committee, Genocide Studies Program at Yale University - (United States)
Hollie Nyseth Brehm
Associate Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University (OSU) - (United States)
Hilary Earl
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nipissing University; former Member of the Advisory Board, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Canada)
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University; Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - (Canada)
Gabriel Gatti
Professor of Sociology, University of the Basque Country - (Spain)
Steven Leonard Jacobs
Professor of Religious Studies and Emeritus Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama; former First Vice-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (United States)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Albert Abramson Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings Law; Author of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005) and Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (1995) - (United States)
Ralf Michaels
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and Queen Mary University London - (Germany)
Tatyana Eatwell
Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the Executive Committee of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Peter Romijn
Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Department, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies; Professor of History, University of Amsterdam - (Netherlands )
Geoffrey Dancy
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University; former director and current consultant for the Transitional Justice Research Collaborative (TJRC) - (United States)
Rosa Ana Alija Fernández
Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona - (Spain)
Michael Bazyler
Professor of Law and The 1939 Society Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Fowler School of Law, Chapman University - (United States)
Rory O’Connell
Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) & School of Law, Ulster University - (United Kingdom)
Bernie Hammond
Professor Emeritus, Social Justice and Peace Studies, King’s University College, Western University - (Canada)
Jared O. Bell
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (TJ Centre), Western University (Canada) - (United States)
Ebba Lekvall
Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Kieran McEvoy
Professor of Law and Transitional Justice, Queens University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Anna Bryson
Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast (QUB); Chair of the Committee on the Administration of Justice and Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Nicholas Grief
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent; Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Andrew James Harding
Professor of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS); Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, NUS (2012-2016); Head of the School of Law, SOAS University of London (1996-1999) - (Singapore)
Kerry Whigham
Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University; Member, Executive Board, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (United States)
Vivek Krishnamurthy
Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa; Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (Canada/United States)
Paul Slovic
Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon; Board of Advisors, Genocide Watch (2014–present); Board of Advisors, The Auschwitz Institute (2014–present) - (United States)
Sévane Garibian
SNF Professor of Law, University of Geneva (UNIGE); Adjunct Professor, University of Neuchâtel - (Switzerland)
Norman M. Naimark
Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University; Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and of the Institute of International Studies - (United States)
Ethel Brooks
Associate Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University; Member, US Holocaust Memorial Council (2015-2020); Chair, European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) - (United States)
Daniel Goldstein
Professor Emeritus in Anthropology, Rutgers University - (United States)
Amanda Grzyb
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario; Project Director, Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, University of Western Ontario - (Canada)
Lawrence Hamilton
Professor of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits); SA-UK Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge University - (United Kingdom)
Jeffrey Bachman
Senior Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service - (United States)
Alain Goldschläger
Former Chair, League for Human Right (Ontario); Member, Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA); Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario; Director, Holocaust Literature Research Institute (HLRI), Western University - (Canada)
Jennifer Leaning
Former FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and former Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow at the FXB Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School - (United States)
J. Paul Martin
Adjunct Professor and former Director of Human Rights Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University - (United States)
Gerhard Kemp
Professor of Law, University of Derby; Extraordinary Professor of Public Law, Stellenbosch University - (United Kingdom / South Africa)
Karen Hulme
Professor, School of Law, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Johan D. van der Vyver
I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Emory University School of Law - (South Africa)
Fiona C. Ross
Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town - (South Africa)
Alexander Motyl
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - (United States)
Phil Scraton
Emeritus Professor, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (QUB); Founder member of Statewatch and of INQUEST: United Campaigns for Justices - (United Kingdom / Ireland)
Paul H. Wise
Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society, Stanford University - (United States)
Sharry Aiken
Associate Professor & Academic Director, Graduate Diploma in Immigration & Citizenship Law, Faculty of Law, Queen's University - (Canada)
Tozun Bahcheli
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, King's University College, University of Western Ontario - (Canada)
Sara M.T. Polo
Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Karen Elizabeth Bishop
Associate Professor of Spanish & Comparative Literature, Rutgers University; Director, Critical Translation Studies Initiative, Rutgers University - (United States)
Pearl Eliadis
Law Office of Pearl Eliadis (practice in human rights); Associate Professor (Professional), McGill University - (Canada)
René Provost
Professor of Law, McGill University; Founding Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2005-2010); Fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation - (Canada)
Geoff Gilbert
Professor of International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Louise Mallinder
Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Tracy M. Lemos
Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies and Religion, University of Toronto; Professor of Hebrew Bible and Faculty Affiliate of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Western University - (Canada)
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto; Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Western University; Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto - (Canada)
David Palumbo-Liu
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University - (United States)
Alex Jeffrey
Fellow, Emmanuel College; Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge - (United Kingdom)
Haun Saussy
Professor, University of Chicago - (United States)
Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University - (United States)
Timothy Williams
Junior Professor of Insecurity and Social Order, Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany); 2nd Vice President, International Association of Genocide Studies (IAGS) - (Germany)
Mark Kersten
Senior Researcher, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Consultant, Wayamo Foundation - (Canada)
Harry Hobbs
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) - (Australia)
Luke Moffett
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast; Director, Human Rights Centre, Queen’s University Belfast (2015-2020); Principal Investigator on the project Reparations, Responsibility & Victimhood in Transitional Societies - (United Kingdom)
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Lecturer on Education, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership and Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - (United States)
Caroline Bennett
Associate Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington; Advisory Board Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (New Zealand)
Adam Kochanski
Research Affiliate, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University - (Canada)
Katerina Hatzikidi
Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany); Research Affiliate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford; Associate Fellow, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London - (United Kingdom)
David Matas
Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China - (Canada)
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University - (United States)
Paula J. Meth
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield - (United Kingdom)
Gloria Yayra A. Ayee
Lecturer, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (United States)
Flynn Coleman
Technology & Human Rights Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (United States)
Peter Weiss
Former Vice-President, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) - (United States)
Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University; Director, Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for Intl Studies, Stanford University - (United States)
Sascha Nanlohy
Member, Executive Board, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Australia)
Cara Levey
Lecturer, University College Cork (UCC) - (Ireland)
Tara Van Ho
Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex - (United States)
Achille Campagna
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (San Marino)
Adam M. VanHo
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Amos Waldman
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Casimiro Mastino
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Italy)
Christopher Leibig
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
James Mehigan
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury; Barrister, Garden Court Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Ireland / United States)
Smadar Ben-Natan
University of Washington, Seattle; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Israel)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Geoffrey Philip Roberts
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Greg Boos
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Harald von Seefried
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Germany / Switzerland)
James MacGuill
Former President of the Law Society of Ireland (2007-2008); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Ireland)
Jean Flamme
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Member, Defence Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA); former Deputy Judge at the Tribunal of Commerce of Gent (Belgium); former Secretary-General of Avocats sans Frontières Belgium and of International Criminal Bar (ICB) - (Belgium)
Jean-Pierre Kilenda Kakengi Basila
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Belgium)
Jessica Finelle
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
John Stokes
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
John Traversi
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Kurt Kerns
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Max Mailliet
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Luxembourg)
Pascal Vanderveeren
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); President of the Brussels Bar (1998-2000) - (Belgium)
Juan Carlos Manriquez
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Proceedings and International Criminal Law - (Chile)
Liesbeth Zegveld
Professor of War Reparations, Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), University of Amsterdam; Founder, Nuhanovic Foundation; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (The Netherlands)
Rachel Lindon
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Roberto Durrieu
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Argentina)
Silke Studzinsky
Former International Civil Party Lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Germany)
Thom Dyke
Barrister at 9 Gough Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Višnja Drenški Lasan
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Croatia)
Lyma Nguyen
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Australia)