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

Mark Ellis

Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA) - (United Kingdom)

Tahar Boumedra

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

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

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

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

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)

Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter

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

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)

Ms Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh

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 McIntyre

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

Michel Mayor

2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Switzerland)

Eleonora Mongelli

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

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

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)

Dr. Carmen Márquez-Carrasco

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)

Prof. Tom Shakespeare

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

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)

Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt

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

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

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

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)

Prof. Aurora Ciucă

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)

Dr. Fiona McGaughey

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)

Dr. Eyal Mayroz

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)