Signatories of Open Letter to the UN Regarding Executions and Atrocity Crimes in Iran - May 2026
LONDON, 18 May 2026 — More than 300 prominent international legal experts, human rights defenders, and Nobel laureates have issued a joint open letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, raising alarm over a sharp escalation in executions in Iran and warning of an emerging pattern of atrocity crimes.
“The scale of executions has reached levels not seen in nearly four decades. Of particular concern is the targeted execution of political prisoners and protesters”, the letter states.
“Silence in the face of these atrocities only reinforces impunity. We look to your leadership to ensure that the United Nations acts decisively to prevent further loss of life”.
Read the full text of the letter here.
Distinguished Signatories
Mark Ellis
Executive Director, International Bar Association - (United Kingdom)
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Chair, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights - (United Kingdom)
Joachim Rücker
Former President of the UN Human Rights Council - (Germany)
Sang-Hyun Song
Former President of the International Criminal Court - (South Korea)
Mogens Lykketoft
Former President of the UN General Assembly - (Denmark)
Solomon Passy
Former President of the UN Security Council - (Bulgaria)
Stephen Rapp
Former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice - (United States)
Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland - (Switzerland)
Javaid Rehman
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - (Pakistan)
Anne Ramberg
Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights - (Sweden)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (Ukraine)
Maud De Boer-Buquicchio
Former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe - (Netherlands)
Christina Blacklaws
Former President of the Law Society of England and Wales, - (United Kingdom)
Gareth Evans
Former Foreign Minister of Australia; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group - (Australia)
Jody Williams
1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (United States)
Heiner Bielefeldt
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief - (Germany)
Richard Goldstone
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa - (South Africa)
David Crane
Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone - (United States)
Robert Goldman
Former President, International Commission of Jurists - (United States)
Leila Nadya Sadat
Former Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor - (United States)
Irwin Cotler
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada - (Canada)
Cherie Blair
Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women - (United Kingdom)
Barbara Lochbihler
Former Member of the European Parliament - (Germany)
Irmgard Griss
Former President of the Supreme Court of Austria - (Austria)
Marc Bossuyt
Former President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium - (Belgium)
Rui Manuel Gens Moura Ramos
Former President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal - (Portugal)
Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen
Former President of the Constitutional Court of Andorra - (France)
Jan Pronk
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General - (Netherlands)
Jens Modvig
Former Chair, UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) - (Denmark)
Ana Brian Nougrères
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy - (Uruguay)
Mike Smith
Former Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights - (Australia)
Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury - (United Kingdom)
José Luís da Cruz Vilaça
Former President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities - (Portugal)
Oscar Arias Sánchez
Former President, Costa Rica; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (Costa Rica)
Mantas Adomenas
Secretary General, Community of Democracies - (Lithuania)
Pierre Sané
Former Secretary General, Amnesty International - (Senegal)
Stephanie Wolfe
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars - (United States)
Patrick Kennedy
Former Member of the US House of Representatives - (United States)
Liv Tørres
Former Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Center - (Norway)
Michael Cooper
Executive Director, American Society of International Law - (United States)
James Goldston
Executive Director, Open Society Justice Initiative - (United States)
Erkki Tuomioja
Former Foreign Minister of Finland - (Finland)
Diane Orentlicher
Former UN Independent Expert on Combating Impunity - (United States)
Anders Wijkman
Former UN Assistant Secretary General - (Sweden)
Elisabeth Rasmusson
Former Secretary General of Norwegian Refugee Council - (Norway)
Chris Sidoti
Former Australian Human Rights Commissioner - (Australia)
Geoffrey Robertson
First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) - (Australia)
Gerald Staberock
Secretary General, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Germany)
Wolfgang Schomburg
Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda - (Germany)
Yakin Erturk
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women - (Turkey)
Monika Płatek
UN Expert, OHCHR Examination of the Human Rights Situation in Belarus - (Poland)
William Schabas
Former Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict - (Canada)
Morten Kjaerum
Former Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - (Denmark)
Hans Corell
Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations - (Sweden)
Helen Keller
Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - (Switzerland)
Tahar Boumedra
President, Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) - (United Kingdom)
Karen Smith
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect - (South Africa)
Catherine Van de Heyning
Member, UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - (Belgium)
Christian Tomuschat
Former Chairman of the UN International Law Commission - (Germany)
Claudio Grossman
President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights - (Chile)
Manfred Nowak
Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights - (Austria)
Alex Neve
Former Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada - (Canada)
José Alvarez
Former President, American Society of International Law - (United States)
Michael Lynk
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories - (Canada)
Melissa Upreti
Former Chair Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls - (Nepal)
Lincoln Bloomfield Jr.
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs - (United States)
Vânia Costa Ramos
Chair, European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) - (Portugal)
Rebecca Niblock
Vice Chair, European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) - (United Kingdom)
Alexis Anagnostakis
Human Rights Officer, European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) - (Greece)
John Mather
2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law - (United Kingdom)
Susan Akram
Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Boston University School of Law - (United States)
Lindsay Harris
Director, International Human Rights Clinic, University of San Francisco School of Law - (United States)
Richard Wilson
Professor and Co-Director, Human Rights Initiative, Princeton University - (United States)
Betsy Popken
Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley School of Law - (United States)
David Simon
Director, Yale University Genocide Studies Program - (United States)
William Schulz
Former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA - (United States)
Paul Nurse
President, The Royal Society; 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights - (Chile)
Elisabeth Ward
Executive Director, International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI), DePaul University College of Law - (United States)
Hannah Garry
Executive Director, UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights - (United States)
John Torpey
Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York - (United States)
Josef Azizi
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union - (Austria)
Ralf Michaels
Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law - (Germany)
Richard Wilson
Founding Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, American University Washington College of Law - (United States)
James Silk
Binger Clinical Professor Emeritus of Human Rights, Yale Law School - (United States)
Elizabeth Brundige
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Gender Justice Clinic, Cornell Law School - (United States)
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Professor of Fundamental and Human Rights, University of Vienna; Director Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights - (Austria)
Rachel VanLandingham
Lt Col, USAF (ret.); Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles - (United States)
Sharron Davies
Member of UK House of Lords, Swimmer, Olympic medallist - (United Kingdom)
Madeleine Rees
Former Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - (United Kingdom)
Ken Blackwell
Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights - (United States)
Kevin Jon Heller
Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen - (United States)
Klaus Rackwitz
Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy - (Germany)
Juan Garces
Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award - (Spain)
Sandy Pappas
Former President of the Minnesota Senate - (United States)
Zorica Marić-Djordjević
Former Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council - (Montenegro)
Tracy Edwards
Founder, The Maiden Factor - (United Kingdom)
Joanna Cherry
Former Chair of UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights - (United Kingdom)
Jessica Peake
Director, International & Comparative Law Program, UCLA School of Law - (United States)
Jerry White
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University - (Canada)
Jeremy Sarkin
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (South Africa)
Jennifer Rasmussen
Executive Director, Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) - (United States)
Ingrid Betancourt
Former Member of the Senate of Colombia - (France)
Howard Morrison
Former President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court - (United Kingdom)
Abbé Jolles
International Human Rights Litigator - (United States)
Abraham Cooper
Former Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom - (United States)
Achille Campagna
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court - (San Marino)
Adil Haque
Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School - (United States)
Alastair Logan
Chair, Solicitors International Human Rights Group - (United Kingdom)
Alastair McEwin
Former Disability Discrimination Commissioner of Australia - (Australia)
Alda Facio
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls - (Costa Rica)
Alec von Graffenried
Former Mayor of Bern - (Switzerland)
Alexander Motyl
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - (United States)
Alexandro Álvarez
Former UN Expert, Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua - (Chile)
Alia Brahimi
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council - (United Kingdom)
Alma Lama
Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino - (Kosovo)
Amanda Ellis
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls - (New Zealand)
Amos Waldman
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría
Former Vice-President of Costa Rica - (Costa Rica)
Anand Grover
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health - (India)
Andrea Shemberg
Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights - (Italy)
Andrew Hall
Former Chair of the Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
Andrew Woolford
Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Canada)
Anna Adamska-Gallant
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights - (Poland)
Anna Wyrozumska
Former Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights - (Poland)
Anthony Chase
Professor, Diplomacy & World Affairs, Occidental College - (United States)
Arbana Xharra
Recipient of US Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award 2015 - (Kosovo)
Ariel Dorfman
Novelist, playwright, and human rights activist - (United States)
Ariel Dulitzky
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Argentina)
Aurora Ciucă
President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association; Faculty of Law and Public Administration, University “Ștefan cel Mare” - (Romania)
Avidan Cover
Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law - (United States)
Baher Azmy
Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights - (United States)
Barend van Leeuwen
Professor of European Union Law, Durham Law School - (Netherlands)
Benjamin Davis
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law - (United States)
Bill Shipsey
Executive Director, Art for Human Rights - (United States)
Blaine Bookey
Legal Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco - (United States)
Brice Dickson
Former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission - (United Kingdom)
Bruce McColm
President, Institute for Democratic Strategies - (United States)
Carmela Pérez Bernárdez
Senior Professor of International and European Law, University of Granada - (Spain)
Caroline Bennett
Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, Sussex University - (New Zealand)
Charles Adeogun-Phillips
Barrister - (United Kingdom)
Christian Roth
Founder and Honorary President, European Lawyers’ Union - (France)
Christoph Degenhart
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court State of Saxony - (Germany)
Christopher Kutz
Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law - (United States)
Claire Mahon
Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group - (New Zealand)
Claude Nicati
Former Deputy Prosecutor General of Switzerland - (Switzerland)
Colm O'Cinneide
Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, Vice-Dean, UCL Faculty of Laws - (Ireland)
Dainius Pūras
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health - (Lithuania)
Daniel Rothenberg
Professor of Practice; Co-Director, Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University - (United States)
Dante Pesce González
Former Chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights - (Chile)
David Hunter
Professor Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law - (United States)
David Russell
UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF) - (United Kingdom)
David Wineland
2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Debórah Dwork
Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center—CUNY - (United States)
Deena Hurwitz
Human Rights Attorney and Educator - (United States)
Denis Jivaga
Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) - (Kazakhstan)
Dianne Post
International Human Rights Attorney - (United States)
Dick Spring
Former Foreign Minister of Ireland - (Ireland)
Dominique Attias
Former President of the European Bars Federation - (France)
Edvard Moser
2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (Norway)
Eleonora Mongelli
Vice President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) - (Italy)
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Austria)
Elias Corey
1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention - (United States)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court - (France)
Ellen Kennedy
Executive Director, World Without Genocide - (United States)
Eric Schwartz
Professor of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota - (United States)
Eric Sottas
Founder and former Secretary General of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Switzerland)
Errol Mendes
President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section - (Canada)
Eugene Fidell
Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School - (United States)
Eve Zucker
Lecturer at Yale University - (United States)
Fernand de Varennes
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues - (Canada)
Fernanda Pirie
Professor of the Anthropology of Law, University of Oxford - (United Kingdom)
Filloreta Kodra
Former Ambassador of Albania to the UN Office at Geneva - (Albania)
Flavia Lattanzi
Former Ad Litem Judge, International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia - (Italy)
Francisca Pou Giménez
Professor of Constitutional Law, UNAM - (Mexico)
François Audet
Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM) - (Canada)
Frank Chalk
Founding Co-director, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University - (Canada)
Franklin Dehousse
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union - (Belgium)
Frédéric Mégret
Professor and Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University - (Canada)
Frederik Harhoff
Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - (Denmark)
Frej Fenniche
Former Chief of Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch of the OHCHR - (Switzerland)
Gabor Rona
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries - (United States)
Gerard Quinn
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - (Ireland)
Giovanni Grasso
Former International Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - (Italy)
Gregory Stanton
Founding President, Genocide Watch - (United States)
Gulnara Shahinian
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences - (Armenia)
Habib Nassar
Attorney and Transitional Justice Expert - (Brazil)
Hans Noot
Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief - (Netherlands)
Hans-Christof von Sponeck
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General - (Germany)
Hansdeep Singh
Co-Founder, International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) - (United States)
Haun Saussy
Professor, University of Chicago - (United States)
Henrikas Mickevičius
Former Member, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Lithuania)
Hiljmnijeta Apuk
Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013 - (Kosovo)
Houria Esslami
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Morocco)
Hurst Hannum
Professor Emeritus of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University - (United States)
Irene Victoria Massimino
Former High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires - (Argentina)
James Mehigan
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury - (Ireland)
Jamil Dakwar
International Human Rights Lawyer and Adjunct Professor, New York University and Hunter College - (United States)
Jasper Krommendijk
Professor of Human Rights Law, Radboud University - (Netherlands)
Jaspreet Singh
Co-Founder, Director of Policy & Advocacy, International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) - (United States)
Jeanne Sarson
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Jean-Pierre Mignard
Lawyer - (France)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (France)
Jeff Kaufman
Director, writer, producer of the documentary about Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh “Nasrin" - (United States)
Jennifer Trahan
Clinical Professor; Director, Concentration in International Law and Human Rights, NYU Center for Global Affairs - (United States)
Joachim Savelsberg
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law, Former Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, University of Minnesota - (United States)
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Director, Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic - (United States)
Jocelynne Scutt
Former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania - (Australia)
John Dugard
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories - (South Africa)
John Hendy
Member of the UK House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
John Packer
Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa - (Canada)
Josef Drexl
Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition - (Germany)
Joseph DiMento
Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law - (United States)
Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez
Former Foreign Minister of Paraguay - (Paraguay)
Karen Gomez Dumpit
Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) - (Philippines)
Karen Musalo
Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies UC Law, San Francisco - (United States)
Katherine Spillar
Executive Director, Feminist Majority Foundation - (United States)
Kermit Roosevelt
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School - (United States)
Kerry Kennedy
President, Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center - (United States)
Kirsten Ainley
Professor and Director of Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University - (Australia)
Leilani Farha
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing - (Canada)
Lia Tsuladze
Executive Director, Center for Social Sciences (CSS) - (Georgia)
Linda MacDonald
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Lisa Hajjar
Professor of Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara - (United States)
Livingstone Sewanyana
Former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order - (Uganda)
Loveday Hodson
Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Leicester - (United Kingdom)
Lucia Serena Rossi
Former Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union - (Italy)
Luciano Hazan
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Argentina)
Lucius Caflisch
Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights - (Liechtenstein)
Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez
Former President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) - (Spain)
Lysa John
Expert on civil society and collective action - (South Africa)
Marek Antoni Nowicki
Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo - (Poland)
Marion Böker
Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues - (Germany)
Mark Kersten
Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of the Fraser Valley - (Canada)
Mark Klamberg
Deputy Director, Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice - (Sweden)
Martin Flaherty
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University - (United States)
Martti Koskenniemi
Former Member of the UN International Law Commission - (Finland)
Mary O’Connell
Chair in Law and Professor of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame - (United States)
Maude Barlow
Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN General Assembly - (Canada)
Maxim Pensky
Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University - (United States)
May-Britt Moser
2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (Norway)
Melissa Parke
Former Minister for International Development of Australia (AusAID) - (Australia)
Michael Newton
Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School - (United States)
Michael Schmitt
Professor of International Law, University of Reading School of Law - (United States)
Michel Mayor
2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Switzerland)
Miloon Kothari
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing - (India)
Mostafa Fouad
Executive Director, HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement - (Belgium)
Nicholas Grief
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent and Honorary Associate Tenant, Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Nicholas Vineall
Former Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
Nicola Macbean
Executive Director, The Rights Practice - (United Kingdom)
Noanne Tenneson
Executive Director, Alliance des Avocats pour les Droits de l'Homme (AADH) - (France)
Ole von Uexkull
Executive Director, Right Livelihood - (United States)
Oliver Hart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
Param Cumaraswamy
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers - (Malaysia)
Paul Milgrom
2020 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
Paul Rink
Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School - (United States)
Pearl Eliadis
Human rights lawyer and Associate Professor, Max Bell School of Public Policy - (Canada)
Peter Ratcliffe
2019 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Peter Stafverfeldt
Chief Judge, Skaraborg District Court - (Sweden)
Predrag Dojčinović
Former War Crimes Expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTY - (United States)
Ray Murphy
Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway - (Ireland)
Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Rebecca Shoot
Co-Convener, Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court - (United States)
Reinhard Genzel
2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Germany)
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann
Former Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights - (Canada)
Ricardo Sunga
Former Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - (Philippines)
Richard Dieter
Former Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center - (United States)
Richard Henderson
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United Kingdom)
Richard Roberts
1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Roald Hoffmann
1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Robert Huber
1988 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (Germany)
Roger Clark
Former Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control - (New Zealand)
Roger Kornberg
2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Roland Adjovi
Former Member, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - (Benin)
Ronald Slye
Professor of Law, Seattle University - (United States)
Rudolf Mellinghoff
Former President of Federal Fiscal Court of Germany - (Germany)
Saeed Mokbil
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries - (Yemen)
Saira Mohamed
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law - (United States)
Samuel Townend
Former Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
Sandra Coyle
Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP) - (United States)
Sara Chandler
Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (FBE) - (United Kingdom)
Scott Roehm
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law School; Senior Director for Justice and Accountability, Center for Victims of Torture - (United States)
Sheldon Glashow
1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Siobhan Wills
Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University - (Ireland)
Sonja Biserko
Former Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK - (Serbia)
Stanislav Pavlovschi
Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights - (Moldova)
Stephen Rosenbaum
Frank C. Newman Lecturer, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - (United States)
Stuart Russell
Co-chair, Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers, International Association of People's Lawyers (IAPL) - (Australia)
Suliman Baldo
Former UN Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Mali - (Sudan)
Susan Bazilli
Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus - (Canada)
Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law - (United States)
Takaaki Kajita
2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Japan)
Tali Nates
Recipient of the 2023 US Secretary of State Religious Freedom Award - (South Africa)
Toby Cadman
Barrister and Head of Outline Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Tom Dannenbaum
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School - (United States)
Tom Rawlings
Former Judge of the US Juvenile Courts - (United States)
Tomas Manguel
Professor of International Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires - (Argentina)
Tudor Ulianovschi
Former Foreign Minister of Moldova - (Moldova)
Valeriu Ciucă
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union - (Romania)
Veronica Undurraga
Former President of the Expert Commission of the Constitutional Council of Chile - (Chile)
Victoria Sanford
Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI) - (United States)
Vilenas Vadapalas
Former Judge, General Court of the European Union - (Lithuania)
Vojislav Šuc
Former President of the UN Human Rights Council - (Slovenia)
Waad Al-Kateab
Oscar-nominated film director - (United Kingdom)
William Bourdon
International human rights lawyer - (France)
Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Member of the Board of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute - (Kazakhstan)
Nenad Stojanović
Professor, University of Geneva - (Switzerland)