Signatories Of Global Statement Urging UN to Prevent Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran - May 2025
A coalition of more than 500 United Nations experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, human rights and legal experts, and NGOs have signed an urgent appeal for UN intervention to halt the imminent executions of political prisoners in Iran, condemning Tehran’s escalating campaign of politically motivated killings.
Read the statement here.
Co-Signatory NGOs
Distinguished Signatories
Sang-Hyun Song
President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2009-2015) - (South Korea)
Navi Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014) - (South Africa)
Joachim Rücker
President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015); Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN in Geneva (2014-2016) - (Germany)
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Chair, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR); Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Mark Ellis
Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA) - (United Kingdom)
Tahar Boumedra
President, 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)
Mounir Satouri MEP
Chair, European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights - (France)
Christoph Heusgen
Former President of the UN Security Council; Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) (2022-2025); Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN (2017-2021) - (Germany)
William A. Schabas
Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (2014-2015); President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011) - (Canada)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Head of Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) - (Ukraine)
Jody Williams
1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (United States)
President Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica; 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (Costa Rica)
Karen Smith
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021) - (South Africa)
Cherie Blair CBE KC
Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women - (United Kingdom)
Anne Ramberg
Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Board Member, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - (Sweden)
Leila Nadya Sadat
Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023); Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative - (United States)
Barbara Lochbihler
Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances - (Germany)
Claudio Grossman
Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (2016-present); Former Chair, UN Committee against Torture - (Chile)
Helen Keller
Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2011-2020); Chair, Public Law and European and Public International Law, University of Zurich - (Switzerland)
Josef Azizi
Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013) - (Austria)
Valeriu M. Ciucă
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010) - (Romania)
Marc Bossuyt
President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium (2007-2014) - (Belgium)
Irmgard Griss
President of the Supreme Court of Austria (2007-2011); President, Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union (2010-2011) - (Austria)
Justice Florence Mumba
International Judge, Supreme Court Chamber, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Former Vice President, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Former Appeals Chamber Judge, UNICTY/ICTR; Retired Judge, Supreme Court, Zambia - (Zambia)
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) - (Portugal)
Wolfgang Schomburg
Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2001-2008); Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003-2008); Judge, Federal Supreme Court of Germany (1995–2000) - (Germany)
Geoffrey Robertson KC
First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); Founder and Head, Doughty Street Chambers - (Australia)
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)
Judge Flavia Lattanzi
Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2003-2007); Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2007-2016) - (Italy)
Stanislav Pavlovschi
Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2001-2008); Minister of Justice of Moldova (2019) - (Moldova)
Sir David Edward KCMG
Judge, European Court of Justice (1992-2004); Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh - (United Kingdom)
Georg Ress
Judge, European Court of Human Rights (1998-2004) - (Germany)
Franklin Dehousse
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2003-2016) - (Belgium)
Vilenas Vadapalas
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013) - (Lithuania)
Dato’ Shyamala Alagendra
International Criminal Lawyer; Gender and Child Rights Expert - (Malaysia)
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law; Deputy Registrar, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2012-2017) - (United Kingdom)
Rui Manuel Moura Ramos
President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2007-2012); Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2003) - (Portugal)
Amb. Beth Van Schaack
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022-2025) - (United States)
Bernard Kouchner
Foreign Minister of France (2007-2010) - (France)
Amb. Hans Corell
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004) - (Sweden)
Dr. Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury; former Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge - (United Kingdom)
Bianca Jagger
Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador for the Abolition of the Death Penalty; President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation - (Nicaragua)
Pierre Sané
Secretary General, Amnesty International (1992-2001) - (Senegal)
Diane Orentlicher
UN Independent Expert on Combating Impunity (2003-2004) - (United States)
Frederik Harhoff
Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2007-2013) - (Denmark)
Martina Navratilova
Former world No. 1 women's tennis player - (Czech Republic/United States)
Kim McGinnis Russell
Advocate for women & girls - (United States)
Helena Carreiras
Minister of National Defence of Portugal (2022-2024) - (Portugal)
Yoko Hayashi
Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (2015-2016) - (Japan)
Amb. Stephen J. Rapp
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015); Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (2007-2009) - (United States)
Robert K. Goldman
UN Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism (2004-2005); President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) - (United States)
Morten Kjaerum
Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden; Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2008-2015) - (Denmark)
Jan Pronk
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan (2004-2006); Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1985-1986) - (The Netherlands)
Juan E. Méndez
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010-2016); Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2004-2007); former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) - (Argentina)
Manfred Nowak
Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice/Italy; Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2004-2010); Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty (2016-2019); Former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Austria)
Kumi Naidoo
Secretary General, Amnesty International (2018-2020) - (South Africa)
Elbegdorj Tsakhia
President of Mongolia (2009-2017); Prime Minister of Mongolia (2004-2006 and 1998) - (Mongolia)
Gareth Evans AC KC
Former Foreign Minister of Australia; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group - (Australia)
Charles Flanagan
Foreign Minister of Ireland (2014-2017); Justice Minister of Ireland (2017-2020) - (Ireland)
Marko Mihkelson
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament - (Estonia)
Chris D. Sidoti
Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000); Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995) - (Australia)
Christian Tomuschat
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); Emeritus Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin - (Germany)
Erkki Tuomioja
Foreign Minister of Finland (2000-2007, 2011-2015); President of the Nordic Council (2008) - (Finland)
Amb. Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez
Foreign Minister of Paraguay (2000-2001); former Ambassador of Paraguay to the UN in Geneva; Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015) - (Paraguay)
Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević
Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council and World Trade Organization (2013-2018) - (Montenegro)
Amb. Vojislav Šuc
President of the UN Human Rights Council (2018) - (Slovenia)
Amb. Keith M. Harper
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council (2014-2017) - (United States)
Amb. Ken Blackwell
Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights - (United States)
Amb. Amanda Ellis
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the UN in Geneva (2013-2016); Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls - (New Zealand)
Ana Helena Chacón
Second Vice-President of Costa Rica (2014-2018); Costa Rican Ambassador to Spain (2018-2022) - (Costa Rica)
Amb. Filloreta Kodra
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva - (Albania)
Amb. Lincoln Bloomfield
US Special Envoy (2008-2009); US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs (2001-2005); Chairman Emeritus, Stimson Center - (United States)
Sharron Davies MBE
Swimmer, Olympic medalist - (United Kingdom)
Michael Scharf
President of the American Branch of the International Law Association; Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law (2013-2024) - (United States)
Michael Kirby
Former Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea (DPRK); UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-1996); Former Justice of the High Court of Australia - (Australia)
Gerald Staberock
Secretary General, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Germany)
Tracy Edwards MBE
Founder, The Maiden Factor - (United Kingdom)
Miriam Ekiudoko
Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2021-present) - (Hungary)
Dainius Pūras
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2014-2020); Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council (2018-2019) - (Lithuania)
Jean Ziegler
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008); former Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - (Switzerland)
Livingstone Sewanyana
UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2018-2024) - (Uganda)
Maud De Boer-Buquicchio
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (2014-2020); former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe - (The Netherlands)
Jeremy Sarkin
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2008-2014) - (South Africa)
Michael Lynk
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2016-2022); Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Western University - (Canada)
François Crépeau
UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017); Professor of Public International Law, McGill University - (Canada)
Gerard Quinn
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2020-2023) - (Ireland)
Fernand de Varennes
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-2023) - (Canada)
Urmila Bhoola
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (2014-2020) - (South Africa)
Joseph A. Cannataci
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2015-2021) - (Malta)
Ricardo A. Sunga III
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2014-2021) - (Philippines)
Gabor Rona
Chair-Rapporteur/Member of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries (2011-2019); Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School - (United States)
Saeed Mokbil
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries - (Yemen)
Gabriela Knaul
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015) - (Brazil)
Henrikas Mickevičius
Member, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2015-2022) - (Lithuania)
Ariel E. Dulitzky
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2010-2017); Director of the Human Rights Clinic of the School of Law at University of Texas at Austin - (Argentina)
Baskut Tuncak
UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights (2014-2020) - (Turkey)
Alda M. Facio
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (2014-2020) - (Costa Rica)
Soledad Villagra
Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008) - (Paraguay)
Yasmin Sooka
Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (2016-present); former Commissioner, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission - (South Africa)
Sonja Biserko
Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014); Founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia - (Serbia)
Marek Antoni Nowicki
Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo; UN-appointed International Ombudsperson in Kosovo (2000-2005); Member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999) - (Poland)
Melanie O'Brien
President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS); Associate Professor of International Law, University of Western Australia - (Australia)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention - (United States)
Bob Blackman MP
Member of Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Sir Richard J. Roberts
1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Austria)
Felicity Gerry KC
International barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London - (United Kingdom)
Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Brice Dickson
Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005); Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University Belfast - (United Kingdom)
Nicholas Grief
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent - (United Kingdom)
Amos Waldman
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Marion Böker
Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues - (Germany)
Dominique Attias
Former President, European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) - (France)
Ellen J. Kennedy
Executive Director, World Without Genocide - (United States)
Errol P. Mendes
President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section; Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - (Canada)
David Russell
UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF) - (United Kingdom)
Predrag Dojčinović
Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut - (United States)
Sir Mark Vlasic
Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2003); Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law & Public Policy, Georgetown University - (United States)
Steven Leonard Jacobs
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama; Former First Vice-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (United States)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Thom Dyke
Barrister at Deka Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Susanne Brandtstädter
Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne - (Germany)
Malcolm Fowler
Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, member of JVMI, and formerly of the Council and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
Achille Campagna
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (San Marino)
Arbana Xharra
Recipient of US Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award 2015; Journalist - (Kosovo)
Jonathan Arkush
Barrister, Enterprise Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Paulo Casaca
Executive Director, South Asia Democratic Forum; Founder, ARCHumankind; Former MEP - (Portugal)
Paul H. Robinson
Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School - (United States)
Richard C. Dieter
Former Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center; Adjunct Professor of Law, Catholic University of America - (United States)
Rosa Ana Alija Fernández
Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona - (Spain)
Joan Francesca Quint
Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Nick Brown
Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Greg Boos
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Debórah Dwork
Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center—City University of New York - (United States)
Christina Cushen
Human Rights and Gender Equality Activist - (Australia)
Denis Jivaga
Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) - (Kazakhstan)
Eric Heinze
Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London - (United Kingdom)
Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate
Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH) - (Togo)
Alex Neve
Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; Former Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada - (Canada)
Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh
Human Rights Defender - (Bangladesh)
Hilary Earl
Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University - (Canada)
Melinda Taylor
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Australia)
Antonietta Elia
International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe - (Italy)
Toby Cadman
Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Victoria Sanford
Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI) - (United States)
David J. Simon
Director, Yale University Genocide Studies Program - (United States)
James Joseph
Director, The Duty Legacy - (United Kingdom)
Gregory H. Stanton
Founding President, Genocide Watch - (United States)
ElsaMarie Dsilva
Founder and President, Red Dot Foundation Global - (India)
Christina Blacklaws
President of the Law Society of England and Wales (2018-2019) - (United Kingdom)
Maxim Pensky
Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University, NY - (United States)
Andreas Bummel
Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders - (Germany)
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)
Kenneth Lewis
Lawyer for the PMOI in the Swedish trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury - (Sweden)
Giorgia Pietropaoli
Professor, writer, journalist and human rights activist - (Italy)
Marie Lamensch
Global Affairs Officer, Montreal Institute for Global Security (MIGS) - (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)
Gabrielle Louise McIntyre
International Consultant, Lex Collective; Climate Counsel, Anti-Corruption Authority - (Australia/Cyprus)
Roger S. Clark
Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey; Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1987-1990) - (New Zealand)
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips
Barrister, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers - (United Kingdom & Nigeria)
Christoph Degenhart
Professor emeritus of law, University of Leipzig; Former judge of the Constitutional Court State of Saxony - (Germany)
Jerry P. White
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University; Director, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium - (Canada)
Baden Offord AO
Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University - (Australia)
Jane E. Durgom-Powers
CEO & Founder, Families of the Missing (FOM) - (United States)
David E. Guinn
Public Service Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany - State University of New York - (United States)
Hans Noot
Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief - (The Netherlands)
Alison Brown
President, International Alliance of Women - (United States)
Sheila Paylan
Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant with the United Nations - (Armenia/Canada)
Yakin Ertürk
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2003-2009) - (Turkey)
Hiljmnijeta Apuk
Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013 - (Kosovo)
Michel Mayor
2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Switzerland)
Eleonora Mongelli
Vice President, FIDU - Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (Italian Federation for Human Rights) - (Italy)
Ben Kiernan
Founding Director, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University - (United States)
Alexander Motyl
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - (United States)
Anja Matwijkiw
Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest - (United States)
Barry C. Barish
2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Sergio D’Elia
Secretary General, Hands Off Cain - (Italy)
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain; former Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Mohammed Mostafa
Executive Director, Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms - (Tunisia)
Maude Barlow
Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly; Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians - (Canada)
Melissa Parke
Member, UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (2017–2021); Former Minister for International Development (AusAID) - (Australia)
Eric Sottas
Founder and former Secretary General of Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture - World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Switzerland)
Antonio Stango
President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) - (Italy)
James Allan
Emeritus Professor of Eastern Art, University of Oxford - (United Kingdom)
Klaus U. Rackwitz
Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy - (Germany)
Sara Chandler KC (Hon)
Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (FBE) - (United Kingdom)
Robert J. Currie KC
Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University - (Canada)
David E. Pettigrew
CSU Professor and Chairperson, Philosophy Department, Southern Connecticut State University - (United States)
Eric Stover
Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - (United States)
Thomas F. Creed
Senior Counsel - (Ireland)
Stephanie Wolfe
Professor, Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State University (WSU); First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2023-2025) - (United States)
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)
Lia Tsuladze
Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi - (Georgia)
Maria Dmytrieva
Democracy Development Center - (Ukraine)
David Matas
Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China - (Canada)
Juan Carlos Manriquez
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Chile)
Roberto Durrieu
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Argentina)
Heather Strang
Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, Cambridge University - (United Kingdom )
René Waldow
Representative to the United Nations, Association of World Citizens (AWC) - (Switzerland)
Donna Robinson Divine
Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College - (United States)
Ingrid Betancourt
Former Senator and Presidential candidate - (Colombia)
Ray Murphy
Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway - (Ireland)
Alice Benhamou Panetta
President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF); Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur - (France)
Yasushi Higashizawa
Professor, Faculty of Law, Meijigakuin University; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) - (Japan)
Carmen Márquez-Carrasco
Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Sevilla - (Spain)
Robin Ramcharan
Executive Director at Asia Centre; Professor of International Relations in Bangkok - (Thailand)
Judith Armatta
Author and Human Rights Lawyer - (United States)
Hon. Peter Kent
Minister of the Environment of Canada (2011-2013); Former Member of Parliament - (Canada)
Surepalli Prashanth
Lawyer; Special Assistant to the Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana - (India)
Christian Roth
Lawyer; Founder and Honorary President, European Lawyers’ Union (Union des Avocats Européens - UAE) - (France)
Tom Shakespeare
Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Pearl Eliadis
Human rights lawyer and Associate Professor (professional), Max Bell School of Public Policy; Full Member, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University - (Canada)
Ahmet Cemil Yildirim
Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Gulf University for Science and Technology - (Kuwait)
Siobhan Wills
Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University; Professor of Law, School of Law, Ulster University - (Northern Ireland)
Omar Soliman
Barrister, Guernica 37 Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Julia Bray
Emerita Professor of Classical Arabic, University of Oxford - (United Kingdom)
Tomas Manguel
Professor of International Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires - (Argentina)
Denakpon L. Tchobo
Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; President, Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE) - (United States)
Hon. Jocelynne A. Scutt
Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania, and former judge on the High Court of Fiji - (United Kingdom / Australia)
Reed Brody
Member, UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (2024-present); 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) - (Hungary/United States)
Juan E. Garcés
Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende - (Spain)
Caroline Bennett
Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, Sussex University - (New Zealand)
Katerina Hatzikidi
Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen - (United Kingdom)
Natasha Lindstaedt
Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Martti Koskenniemi
Member of the UN International Law Commission (2002-2006) - (Finland)
Alia Brahimi
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council - (United Kingdom)
Filippo Cesaris
Lawyer - (Italy)
Alexis Anagnostakis
Barrister at Law - (Greece)
Claire Mahon
Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group - (New Zealand)
Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Chief Expert-Consultant, Member of the Board, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) - (Kazakhstan)
William H. Wiley
Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) - (Canada)
Mireille Rebeiz
Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College - (United States)
Alexander Alvarez
Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University - (United States)
David M. Crane
Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone - (United States)
Sheldon Glashow
1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Rebecca A. Shoot
Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions - (United States)
Takaaki Kajita
2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Japan)
Stephanie Barwise KC
Barrister - (United Kingdom)
Eve Zucker
Lecturer at Yale University - (United States)
Nenad Stojanović
Professor, University of Geneva - (Switzerland)
David R. Boyd
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2018-2024) - (Canada)
Marie Fox
Queen Victoria Chair of Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool - (United Kingdom)
Rudolf Mellinghoff
Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (2001-2011); President of Federal Fiscal Court of Germany (2011-2020) - (Germany)
Tali Nates
Recipient US Secretary of State's International Religious Freedom Awards (2023) - (South Africa)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Distinguished Professor of Law (emeritus), UC Law San Francisco - (United States)
Susan Bazilli
Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus (2024-present) - (Canada)
Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) - (United States)
Luz E. Nagle
Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law - (United States)
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy
Founder, The Kennedy Forum; Former Member of the US House of Representatives - (United States)
Irene Victoria Massimino
High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020); Professor of Jurisprudence and Human Rights - (Argentina)
Karen Gomez Dumpit
Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) - (Philippines)
Sibylle von Heydebrand
Representative of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) at the United Nations in Geneva - (Switzerland)
Charles Taku
Lawyer - (Netherlands)
Stan Brabant
Executive Director, Amnesty International Luxembourg (2012-2019) - (Luxembourg)
Fathi Ben Mrad
Associate Researcher, University of Luxembourg; President of the Francophone Association for the Development of Mediation - (France)
Alastair Logan OBE
Chair, Solicitors International Human Rights Group - (United Kingdom)
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2023-2024); Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action, Simon Wiesenthal Center - (United States)
Steven M. Schneebaum
Adjunct Professor of International Law, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University - (United States)
Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Lecturer on Education, Harvard University - (United States)
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Regius Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Essex - (Norway)
Felipe Gómez Isa
Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean for International Relations, Deusto Law School - (Spain)
Stefan Braum
Professor of European Criminal Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg - (Luxembourg)
Peter Romijn
Head of the Research Department, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies; Professor of History, University of Amsterdam - (The Netherlands)
Andrea Shemberg
Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights - (Italy)
Nwabueze Nwokolo
Council Member Emeritus, The Law Society of England and Wales - (Nigeria)
Struan Stevenson
Former Member of the European Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Jocelyn Getgen
Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic; Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Cardozo Law - (United States)
Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez
Former President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL); Chair of International and European Law, University of Granada - (Spain)
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)
Amanda Grzyb
Professor of Information and Media Studies, Western University - (Canada)
Kurt Kerns
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Kermit Roosevelt
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School - (United States)
Jeffrey Bachman
Associate Professor, American University School of International Service - (United States)
Nico Krisch
Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - (Switzerland)
Christy Fujio
Executive Director, Synergy for Justice; Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk University Law School - (United States)
Evelyne Schmid
Professor of International Law, University of Lausanne - (Switzerland)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (France)
Kerry Whigham
Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University - (United States)
Avril Alba
Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney - (Australia)
Rupert Skilbeck
Director, REDRESS - (United Kingdom)
David Strupek
Lawyer - (Czech Republic)
R. Bruce McColm
President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House - (United States)
Mark Kersten
Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice, the University of the Fraser Valley - (Canada)
Abbé Jolles
International Human Rights Litigator - (United States)
Rt Hon Nigel Evans
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (2020-2024) - (United Kingdom)
Timothy J. Christian KC
Chief Federal Negotiator of the Government of Canada (1996–2010); Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta (1985-1995) - (Canada)
James Mehigan
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury - (Ireland / United States)
Sandra M. Coyle
Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP) - (United States)
Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot
Emeritus Professor of Private international law, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón - (Spain)
Pierre Bercis
President, Nouveaux Droits de l'Homme (NDH) - (France)
Heinz Schöch
Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at the University of Munich - (Germany)
Emanuel Kamura
Jurist - (Switzerland)
Nick Bell
Human rights activist - (Switzerland)
Akaash Maharaj
Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) - (Canada)
Barend van Leeuwen
Professor of European Union Law, Durham Law School - (Netherlands)
Max du Plessis
Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers; Senior Counsel; Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela University - (South Africa)
Martha Bradley
Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law, University of Johannesburg - (South Africa)
Niamh Harnett
Barrister At Law, The Bar of Ireland; Lecturer in Immigration and Asylum Law, City Colleges - (Ireland)
Martin Flaherty
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School; Adjunct Professor, Barnard College; Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights, Fordham Law School; Founding Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice - (United States / Ireland)
Luciano Hazan
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2017-2023); Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) (2011-2017) - (Argentina)
Mae Thompson
Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights - (United States)
Sanna Wolk
President of the UN Association of Sweden - (Sweden)
Alastair McEwin AM
Disability Discrimination Commissioner (2016-2019); Royal Commissioner, Disability Royal Commission (2019-2023) - (Australia)
Anita Sinha
Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC), American University Washington College of Law (WCL) (2019-Present) - (United States)
Miloon Kothari
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing (2000-2008) - (India)
Luciana Minassian
Assistant Professor of International Law and Emiliano Buis Chair, Law School, University of Buenos Aires - (Argentina)
Andrew Woolford
Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Canada)
Anand Grover
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014) - (India)
Maria Neus Torbisco-Casals
Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute - (Switzerland)
Daniele Vecchi
Partner, Gianni & Origoni - (Italy)
Madasamy Ravi
International human rights lawyer - (Singapore)
Kevin Jon Heller
Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen - (United States)
Claude Nicati
Deputy Prosecutor General of Switzerland (2001-2009) - (Switzerland)
Anabela Atanásio Alves
Senior International Criminal Lawyer - (Portugal)
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University; Member of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016) - (Canada)
Eyal Benvenisti
Former Director of the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, University of Cambridge - (Israel)
Michael A. Newton
Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School - (United States)
Sètondji Roland Adjovi
Member, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2014-2020) - (Benin)
Thomas E. Garrett
Secretary General of Community of Democracies (CoD) (2017-2024) - (United States)
John C. Mather
2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Michael Pålsson
Attorney-at-law - (Sweden)
Savita Pawnday
Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) - (India)
Aurora Ciucă
President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association; Faculty of Law and Public Administration, University “Ștefan cel Mare” - (Romania)
John Dugard
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2001–2008); Member of the International Law Commission (1997–2011) - (South Africa)
Nigel Edwards KC
Barrister, Lamb Building - (United Kingdom)
Monica Iyer
Professor, Georgia State University College of Law - (United States)
David Palumbo-Liu
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University - (United States)
Frej Fenniche
Chief of Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch (APMENAB), OHCHR (2015-2017) - (Switzerland)
John Packer
Former UN Staff Member, Member of the UN's Standby Team of Mediation Experts (2012-2014); Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), University of Ottawa - (Canada)
Sarah Annes Brown
Professor, Anglia Ruskin University - (United Kingdom)
Elisabeth Driscoll
UK Bureau Chief, JURIST - (United Kingdom)
Natalija Havelka
Executive Director, Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights - Osijek - (Croatia)
Peter Stafverfeldt
Chief Judge, Skaraborg District Court - (Sweden)
Lindsay Moir
Professor of International Law, Law School, University of Hull - (United Kingdom)
Jasper Krommendijk
Professor of Human Rights Law, Radboud University - (Netherlands)
Steven McCulloch
Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester - (United Kingdom)
Uwe Wirsching
President of the Nuremberg Bar Association - (Germany)
Izabela Konopacka
Immediate Past President, European Bars Federation (FBE) - (Poland)
Gill H. Boehringer
Dean (ret.), Macquarie University Law School, Sydney - (Australia)
Janina Dill
Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) - (United Kingdom)
Audrey Matéo
Legal Counsel - (France)
James Wood KC
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Lauren Lederle
International Law and Human Rights lawyer, Senior Associate at Omnia Strategy LLP - (United Kingdom)
Jane Hickman
Former Commissioner, Legal Services Commission - (United Kingdom)
Darragh Mackin
Director, Phoenix Law Human Rights Lawyers - (Ireland)
Amb. Alma Lama
Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino; Former Member of Parliament - (Kosovo)
Fantu Cheru
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment - (Ethiopia/United States)
Orry Van de Wauwer
Director, Pax Christi Flanders; Member of the Senate of Belgium (2019-2024) - (Belgium)
Jean Flamme
Member, Defence Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) - (Belgium)
Javier S. Eskauriatza
Co-Director, Criminal Justice Research Centre (CJRC), University of Nottingham - (United Kingdom)
Elaine Arnull
Associate Dean, Director of the National Hub for Social Innovation and Technology and Professor, University of Wolverhampton - (United Kingdom)
Graham Blewitt AM
Deputy Chief Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2004) - (Australia)
Emilie Palamy Pradichit
Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation - (Thailand)
Sir Gregory P. Winter
2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United Kingdom)
Vincent Heneghan
Senior Counsel - (Ireland)
Heiner Bielefeldt
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-2016) - (Germany)
Peter Carter KC
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Dame Eleanor Sharpston DCMG KC
Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Union (2006-2020) - (Luxembourg)
Joachim Frank
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Jennifer Wright Knust
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University - (United Kingdom)
Margaret Greenfields
Professor of Social Policy - (United Kingdom)
Giovanni Marotta
Vice President, Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE) - (United States)
Jens Modvig
Former Chair, UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) - (Denmark)
Paulo Saragoça da Matta
Partner, DLA Piper - (Portugal)
Ellen Samyn
Member of Parliament - (Belgium)
Frank Chalk
Founding Co-Director, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University; President, the Association of Genocide Scholars (1999-2001) - (Canada)
Alannah Travers
Conflict, Justice, and Human Rights LLM at SOAS University; formerly Iraq researcher - (United Kingdom/Germany)
Mark Klamberg
Professor in International Law, Stockholm University; Deputy Director, Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice - (Sweden)
Simon Foote KC
Barrister, Arbitrator - (New Zealand)
Markus Kotzur
Vice Dean for International Relations and Chair for Public Law, European and International Public Law, University of Hamburg - (Germany)
Amy Strecker
Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin - (Ireland)
Donna M. Hughes
Professor Emerita, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women's Studies Emerita, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Rhode Island - (United States)
Dorien Rookmaker
President, More Direct Democracy (MDD); Former Member of the European Parliament - (Netherlands)
Marie-Hélène Proulx
Counsel at the International Criminal Court; Former President of the ICC Bar Association - (Canada)
Joanna Dingwall
Public international lawyer; Visiting Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow - (United Kingdom/Germany)
Myo Win
Visiting Scholar at the University of Oklahoma - (United States)
Imtiaz Ahmed Sajal
Assistant Professor of Law and Human Rights Defender - (Bangladesh)
Lady Valerie Corbett
Founder, Lady Val's Professional Women's Network - (United Kingdom/Germany)
Jeanne Sarson
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Linda MacDonald
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Bill Bowring
Member of the Executive of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Mary Travis Bassett
Executive Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - (United States)
Matteo Pignocchi
Lawyer and postdoc researcher - (Italy)
Jean-Edouard Gresy
Anthropologist; Co-Founder, AlterNego - (France)
Rory O’Connell
Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Ulster University - (United Kingdom)
Paul R. Milgrom
2020 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
Wole Soyinka
1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Nigeria)
Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam
Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Senator from France (2004-2023) - (France)
Rez Gardi
Founder, Empower; Co-founder, Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland - (New Zealand)
Paul Modrich
2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Tim Hunt
2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Patrick Modiano
2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (France)
Jerome Friedman
1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Gerardus’ T. Hooft
1999 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Netherlands)
John Maxwell Coetzee
2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (South Africa/Australia)
Orhan Pamuk
2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Turkey)
Aarti Thakor
Lawyer - (United Kingdom)
Farah Kanbi
Co-Director, Politics4Her - (Tunisia)
Vikrant Dorkar
Lawyer - (United Kingdom)
Chris Law MP
Member of Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Michaela Streibelt
Lawyer - (Germany)
Suthaharan Nadarajah
Co-Chair, Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ), SOAS University of London - (United Kingdom)
Estella Carpi
Associate Professor of Humanitarian Studies, University College London - (United Kingdom)
Rev. Susan Lee
Former President, US Women’s Caucus; Former Master Lecturer in Social Sciences, Boston University - (United States)
Nathalie Seff
Executive Director, ACAT-France - (France)
Richard Henderson
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United Kingdom)
Brynhildur Björnsdóttir
Former Member of Parliament - (Iceland)
Cantor Michael Zoosman
Co-Founder, "L'chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty - (United States)
Andy Vermaut
EU Climate Pact Ambassador; President, Fundamental Rights Movement Postversa - (Belgium)
Helga Vala Helgadóttir
Attorney and former Member of Parliament - (Iceland)
Orri Páll Johannsson
Former Member of Parliament - (Iceland)
Sarah Mardini
Swimmer and lifeguard - (Syria)
Josef Drexl
Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition - (Germany)
Elise Groulx Diggs
Founder and Honorary President of the International Criminal Bar for the International Criminal Court - (Canada)
Gulnara Shahinian
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences (2008-2014) - (Armenia)
Eva Pils
Humboldt Professor of Human Rights Law, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg - (United Kingdom)
Fiona McGaughey
Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Western Australia - (Australia)
Reinhard Genzel
2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Germany)
Mariane Pearl
Award-winning journalist; Founder of Women Bylines - (France)
Ifenla Oligbinde
Founder, Ark and Rainbow Development Foundation - (Nigeria)
Michael Brown
1985 Nobel Laureate in Medicine - (United States)
Robert J. Aumann
2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics - (United States)
Robinah K. Nanyunja
President & Chair, Pilot International and Women Entrepreneurship Forum Africa (WEFA) - (Uganda)
Patrick Baudouin
Honorary President, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH); Honorary President, Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (LDH) - (France)
Sara Kowal
Director, Eleos Justice, Monash University - (Australia)
Roger Kornberg
2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
John L. Hall
2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Shuji Nakamura
2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Japan)
David W. MacMillan
2021 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United Kingdom)
Herta Müller
2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Germany)
Yuan T. Lee
1985 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (Taiwan)
John Strawson
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London - (United Kingdom)
Teresa C. Fogelberg
Former Director of Research, Education and Culture, Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands - (Netherlands)
Linda B. Louis
Human rights lawyer - (United Kingdom)
Tom Syring
Chairman, Human Rights Research League (HRRL) - (Norway)
Anders Wijkman
Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations (1995-1997) - (Sweden)
David Hirsh
Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London - (United Kingdom)
Eyal Mayroz
Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney - (Australia)
Alejo Vidal Quadras
Vice President of the European Parliament (1999-2014); President, International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) - (Spain)
Dominique Pradelle
Professor, Sorbonne University - (France)
Rino Pullano
Historian Focused on Human Rights; Schools Facilitator - (Belgium)
Timothy Mooney
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin - (Ireland)
Toni Sillanpää
Founder, Augmented Everest - (Germany)
Sylvester Sammie
Executive Director, Justice and Accountability Worldwide (JAW) - (Italy)
Stephen Schneck
Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom - (United States)
Sirra Ndow
Country Director, African Network against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances (ANEKED) - (Gambia)
Ana Brian Nougrères
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2021-present) - (Uruguay)
Anwar Albunni
Co-founder of the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research - (Germany)
Francoise Sème Wallon
National Secretary, Union Européenne des Femmes - (France)
Marko C. Maglich
Senior Counsel - (United States)
Katya De Giovanni
Chair, Social Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Malta - (Malta)
Silke Voß-Kyeck
Senior Researcher and Policy Advisor, Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte (DIMR) - (Germany)
Ibrahim Najjar
Former Minister of Justice of Lebanon - (Lebanon)
Waad Al-Kateab
Syrian journalist and Oscar nominated film director - (United Kingdom)
Mandy Sanghera
International human rights activist - (United Kingdom)
Samantha Knights KC
Barrister - (United Kingdom)
Jeffrey M. Pollock
Lawyer - (United States)
Artemis Westenberg
President, Netherlands Association for Women's Rights, Female Labour and Equal Citizenship - (Netherlands)
Houria Esslami
Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2014-2020) - (Morocco)
Robert C. Roberts
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University - (United States)
Cyrus Engerer
Former Member of the European Parliament - (Malta)
Joanna De Guia
Chief Operating Officer - London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism - (United Kingdom)
Maurice Martin
Author - (France)
Craig Foster AM
Human Rights Activist, Advocate for Refugees and Social Justice, Adjunct Professor of Sport & Social Responsibility; former captain of the national soccer team - (Australia)
Attika Ghalem
Anti-death penalty activist - (France)
Clémence Witt
International Criminal Lawyer - (France)
Mariarosaria Guglielmi
President, MEDEL (Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés) - (Italy)
Theodoros Rousopoulos
President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - (Greece)
Abraham J. Bonowitz
Executive Director, Death Penalty Action - (United States)
Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir
Ambassador of Iceland to South Africa (2006-2008); Ambassador of Iceland to Norway (2008-2001) - (Iceland)
Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland - (Switzerland)
Erwin Heller
Lawyer, Writer, Artist - (Germany)
Wil Eikelboom
Human rights lawyer - (Netherlands)