JVMI Board of Advisors
Members of the Board of Advisors of Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI):
A prominent human rights campaigner, David Alton is a Member of the UK House of Lords and former Member of Parliament. He is a Visiting Professor at Liverpool Hope University. He co-founded Jubilee Campaign and Jubilee Action, and serves as chair, patron, or trustee, of several charities and voluntary organisations.
Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA), Mark leads the foremost international organisation of bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers in the world. He is former Chair of the UN Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.
Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Anne is an Ad hoc Judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Board Member of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Chair of the Board of Uppsala University, and former Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association.
Having served as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014), Anand is currently a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
He is a Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and Director of Lawyers Collective.
Pierre was Secretary General of Amnesty International (1992-2001), following which he served as Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (2001-2010). After retiring from the UN, he taught at the University of Kyoto and the University of Seoul. He founded the Imagine Africa Institute in 2011, an institute based in Paris and Dakar.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2014-2020), Dainius was Chair of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council (2018-2019). He is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Public Mental Health at Vilnius University and former Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI).
A former Senator and Presidential candidate in Colombia, Ingrid was kidnapped in 2002 while campaigning for the presidency, being held captive for six years. An anti-corruption activist, Ingrid has received multiple international awards, such as the Légion d’honneur. In 2008, she received the Concord Prince of Asturias Award.
Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden), Juan is a Spanish lawyer who became Chilean President Salvador Allende’s closest personal adviser and a survivor after the 1973 military attack on La Moneda Palace.
He is the man behind the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.
International human rights lawyer from France, William practices primarily in the areas of criminal law, including economic criminal law, as well as communications law, especially press and publishing laws. He is specialised in human rights, particularly specialized in defending the victims of globalisation and crimes against humanity.
Former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, Kirsty is a Visiting Professor at Goldsmith University and Head of the International Human Rights team at Doughty Street Chambers. She specialises in international human rights, criminal law, public international, constitutional and international criminal law.
Ambassador Rama Yade is a former Minister of Human Rights of France. While in government, she denounced Muammar Gaddafi‘s state visit to France in 2008 due to his human rights record. She was appointed France’s Ambassador to UNESCO in 2010. She is senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center.
A solicitor for 52 years and retired criminal defence higher court advocate, Malcolm is a former President of the Birmingham Law Society, former member of the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales, chair of the Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee and member of its Human Rights Committee.