Signatories Of Open Letter To World Leaders - Act now to stop Iran from executing protesters - 21 December 2022
More than 240 current and former United Nations officials, judges, human rights experts, Nobel laureates, and NGOs have published an open letter calling on world leaders to step up pressure on Iran to halt the execution of anti-government protesters, including by imposing sanctions on its officials for human rights abuses, expelling Iranian ambassadors and blacklisting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Read the full text of the letter.
The JVMI issued a press release about the open letter on 21 December 2022. Read our statement here.
Here are the 242 signatories:
Co-Signatory NGOs
Distinguished Signatories
Joachim Rücker
President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015); Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN in Geneva (2014-2016); Inspector General of the Federal Foreign Office (2011-2014); Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (2006-2008) - (Germany)
Sang-Hyun Song
President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2009-2015) - (South Korea)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Head of Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) - (Ukraine)
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008); UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator (2009-2017) - (New Zealand)
José Luís da Cruz Vilaça
President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities (1989-1995); Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2012-2018); Member of the Portuguese Government (1980-1983); Professor of EU Law; Attorney at law, founder and managing partner of Cruz Vilaça Advogados - (Portugal)
Sir Howard Morrison KC
President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2012-2018 & 2020-2021); former Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - (United Kingdom)
Amb. Jorge Lomonaco
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva; PILPG Circle of Former Ambassadors - (Mexico)
Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević
Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council and World Trade Organization (2013-2018); Senior Peace Fellow at PILPG - (Montenegro)
Amb. Amanda Ellis
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva (2013-2016) - (New Zealand)
Amb. Filloreta Kodra
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva - (Albania)
Amb. Stephen J. Rapp
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015); former Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) (2007-2009); Senior Fellow at Center for the Prevention of Genocide of US Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Center for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict (ELAC) of Oxford University - (United States)
Amb. Sam Brownback
US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021) - (United States)
Amb. François Zimeray
French Human Rights Ambassador-at-large (2008-2013); Member of the European Parliament (1999-2004); Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark (2013-2018) - (France)
Amb. Ken Blackwell
Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights - (United States)
Karen Smith
UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021) - (South Africa)
Jennifer Welsh
UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2013-2016); Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance & Security, McGill University - (Canada)
Charles Petrie
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General; Former UN Resident Coordinator for Myanmar (2012); Head of UNSG's Internal Review Panel for UN in Sri Lanka - (United Kingdom)
Prof. Claudio Grossman
Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (2016-present); President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) (2014-present); President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (1996, 2001); Chair, UN Committee against Torture (CAT) (2008-2015); Chair, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (2013) - (Chile)
Leila Nadya Sadat
Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative; James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University Law School; Visiting Fellow, Schell Human Rights Center, Yale Law School - (United States)
Hon. Richard J. Goldstone
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Honorary President of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) - (South Africa)
Anne Ramberg
Co-Chair, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI); Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Board Member, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Chair, Board of Uppsala University; former Secretary General, Swedish Bar Association - (Sweden)
Sir Geoffrey Nice KC
Lead prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milošević in The Hague; prosecuted the case of Bosnian Croat Dario Kordić at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), successfully prosecuted Goran Jelisić at the ICTY - (United Kingdom)
Prof. Pierre d’Argent
Professor, Law Faculty of the University of Louvain; Member, Institute of International Law (IIL); Member, Brussels Bar; President, European Society of International Law (ESIL); First Secretary of the International Court of Justice (2009-2011) - (Belgium)
William A. Schabas
Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (2014-2015); member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004); Chair of the Board of Trustees at the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (2009-2011); President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011); President of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation (2021-present); professor of international law at Middlesex University in London - (Canada)
Theo Van Boven
Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights (1977-1982); UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2001-2004) - (The Netherlands)
Manfred Nowak
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004-2010); former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina - (Austria)
Jean Ziegler
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008); former Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - (Switzerland)
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)
Yakin Ertürk
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2003-2009); Prof emeritus, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women (1999-2001); Member, Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture (2009-2013) - (Turkey)
Rashida Manjoo
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences (2009-2015); Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town - (South Africa)
Gabriela Knaul
UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015) - (Brazil)
Dubravka Šimonovic
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2015-2021); former Chairperson of UN CEDAW; Chairperson of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2001-2002) - (Croatia)
Heiner Bielefeldt
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-2016); former Director, German Institute for Human Rights / Deutsche Institut für Menschenrechte (DIMR) - (Germany)
S. James Anaya
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - (United States)
Robert K. Goldman
Former UN Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; former President and member, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); current President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Professor of Law & Louis C James Scholar, Washington College of Law, American University - (United States)
Anand Grover
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014) - (India)
Santiago Corcuera-Cabezut
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); former Chair of the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances; former Chair of the Co-ordinating Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council - (Mexico)
Gulnara Shahinian
UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences (2008-2014) - (Armenia)
Soledad Villagra De Biedermann
Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008) – (Paraguay)
Jeremy Sarkin
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) - (South Africa)
John H. Knox
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2012-2018); Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University School of Law - (United States)
Dr. Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury; former Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge - (United Kingdom)
Garry Kasparov
Chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative; World Chess Champion - (United States)
Erkki Tuomioja
President of the Nordic Council; Former Foreign Minister of Finland; Member of Finnish Parliament - (Finland)
Petrit Selimi
Former Foreign Minister of Republic of Kosovo - (Kosovo)
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); Board Member of the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation (VFTC) in the Field of Human Rights and of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Trust Fund for Financial and Technical Assistance - (Denmark)
Thomas Hammarberg
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (2006-2012); Secretary General of the Stockholm-based Olof Palme International Center (2002–2005); Ambassador of the Swedish Government on Humanitarian Affairs (1994–2002); Secretary General of the NGO “Save the Children Sweden” (1986–1992); Secretary General of Amnesty International (1980–1986); Representative of the UN Secretary General for human rights in Cambodia (1996-2000); Member of Parliament (2018-2022) - (Sweden)
Lord Neil Kinnock
Vice President of the European Commission (1999-2004); Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Irwin Cotler
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights; Emeritus Professor of Law McGill University - (Canada)
Paul R. Milgrom
2020 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
Michel Mayor
2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (Switzerland)
Sir Gregory P. Winter
2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United Kingdom)
Barry C. Barish
2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Kip S. Thorne
2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Joachim Frank
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (France)
Oliver Hart
2016 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (United States)
David Wineland
2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
John C. Mather
2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics - (United States)
Roger Kornberg
2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Austria)
Finn E. Kydland
2004 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences - (Norway)
Sir Richard J. Roberts
1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - (United Kingdom)
Dudley R. Herschbach
1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - (United States)
Bandana Rana
Member, UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - (Nepal)
Frej Fenniche
Chief of Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch (APMENAB) at the OHCHR (2015-2017) - (Switzerland)
Orry Van de Wauwer
Member of the Senate of Belgium - (Belgium)
Andrzej Rzepliński
President of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland (2010-2016); Member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (1994-2004); Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2004-2008); Member of the Advisory Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2013-present) - (Poland)
Rui Manuel Gens Moura Ramos
Judge of the General Court of the European Union (1995-2003); President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2007-2012) - (Portugal)
Valeriu M. Ciucă
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010) - (Romania)
Josef Azizi
Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013) - (Austria)
Vilenas Vadapalas
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013) - (Lithuania)
Franklin Dehousse
Judge, General Court of the European Union (2003-2016); Legal Adviser to the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium (1981-1990); Professor, University of Liège - (Belgium)
Rt. Hon. Sir David Edward
Judge, European Court of Justice (1992-2004); Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh - (United Kingdom)
Wolfgang Schomburg
Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2008); former Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - (Germany)
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)
Klaus U. Rackwitz
Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy - (Germany)
Brice Dickson
Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB); Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005) - (United Kingdom)
Eric David
Former member of the UN-affiliated International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (2006-2016); International Public Law Professor. Em., Université Libre de Bruxelles - (Belgium)
David M. Crane
Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; Founder, Global Accountability Network - (United States)
Tahar Boumedra
Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI); former Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office and Representative of the HCHR in Iraq - (United Kingdom)
Marek Antoni Nowicki
Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo; former UN-appointed International Ombudsperson in Kosovo (2000-2005); former member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999) - (Poland)
Sonja Biserko
Former Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea (DPRK); founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia - (Serbia)
Maude Barlow
Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians - (Canada)
Juan E. Garcés
Spanish lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende; Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Director of “Garcés y Prada Abogados”, Madrid; President of the Spanish Foundation “President Allende” - (Spain)
Mark Ellis
Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA); former Chair of the UN Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals - (United Kingdom)
Hiljmnijeta Apuk
Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013; Director, Little People of Kosova; Member, Ad Hoc Committee of the UN General Assembly on drafting of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - (Kosovo)
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA School of Law; Deputy Registrar, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2012-2017) - (United Kingdom)
Dominique Attias
President, European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) - (France)
Toby Cadman
Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Kyle Matthews
Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University - (Canada)
Cynthia Tai
Executive Director and Founder, Project Expedite Justice (PEJ); former Senior Investigator and Senior Trial Lawyer at the ICC; pro tem Judge in the State of Hawaii - (United States)
Pål Wrange
Director of the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice - (Sweden)
Wendy Lower
Director, Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, Claremont CA - (United States)
David J. Simon
Director, Genocide Studies Program at Yale University - (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 (CUNY) - (United States)
William H. Wiley
Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) - (Canada)
Andreas Bummel
Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders - (Germany)
Victoria Sanford
Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI); Lehman Professor of Excellence, 2021-2024 - (United States)
Ezechia Paolo Reale
Secretary General, The Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Italy)
Pierre Bercis
President, Nouveaux Droits de l'Homme (NDH) - (France)
Tibi Galis
Executive Director, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) – (United States)
Elizabeth Silkes
Executive Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) - (United States)
Almudena Bernabeu
Executive Director, Guernica Centre for International Justice - (Spain)
Ellen J. Kennedy
Executive Director, World Without Genocide - (United States)
Yevgeniy Zhovtis
Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR); Board Member, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) - (Kazakhstan)
Sergio Fausto
Executive Director, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation - (Brazil)
Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate
Executive Director, West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH) - (Togo)
Tali Nates
Founder and Executive Director, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center - (South Africa)
Eric Heinze
Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London; Professor of Law & Humanities, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London - (United Kingdom)
James Silk
Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights, Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School; Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School - (United States)
Mabel Bianco
President of Foundation for Studies and Research on Women - Fundacion Para Estudio e Investigacion De la Mujer (FEIM); Co-Chair of the UN-affiliated Major Groups and other Stakeholders High-Level Political Forum Coordination Mechanism (MGoS HLPF CM) - (Argentina)
Stephen Eric Bronner
Co-Director, International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (ICDD); Board of Governors Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Rutgers University; Affiliate Distinguished Fellow, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR), Rutgers University - (United States)
Sergio D’Elia
Secretary General, Hands Off Cain - (Italy)
Alain Goldschläger
Former Chair, League for Human Right (Ontario); Member, Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA); Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario; Director, Holocaust Literature Research Institute (HLRI), Western University - (Canada)
Tracy Edwards MBE
Founder, The Maiden Factor - (United Kingdom)
Élise Le Gall
President, French Association for the Promotion of Universal Jurisdiction - Association Française pour la Promotion de la Compétence Universelle (AFPCU); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Kerry Whigham
Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University; Member, Executive Board, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (United States)
Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) - (United States)
Errol P. Mendes
President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section; Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; Latest Book: Peace and Justice at the International Criminal Court, 2020 - (Canada)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Endowed Chair, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College; Co-Founder and Co-President, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention; Academic Board Member, Zoryan Institute; Former President, Genocide Watch; Former First Vice President, International Association of Genocide Scholars - (United States)
Irene Victoria Massimino
Former High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020); former Co-Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2015-2017); Member of the Resolutions Committee of the IAGS (2017-Present); Co-President of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention; Professor of Jurisprudence and Human Rights - (Argentina)
Nana-Jo N’Dow
Founder and Executive Director, African Network against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances (ANEKED) - (Gambia)
Maria Elena Elverdin
President of AAMCJ (Asociacion Argentina de Mujeres de Carreras Juridicas), Honorary President of FIFCJ (Federation Internationale des Femmes des Carrieres Juridiques) - (Argentina)
Alexa Koenig
Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Co-Chair, International Bar Association Human Rights Law Committee - (United States)
Betsy Popken
Co-Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law - (United States)
Hans Noot
Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief - (The Netherlands)
Antonio Stango
President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) - (Italy)
Igor Bandović
Director, Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) - (Serbia)
R. Bruce McColm
President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House - (United States)
Alastair Logan OBE, LL.B
Chair of the Solicitors International Human Rights Group, Council member of The Law Society of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
David Russell
UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF) - (United Kingdom)
Frank Chalk
Professor of History and Founding Co-director, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University; President, the Association of Genocide Scholars (1999-2001) - (Canada)
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center - (United States)
Tom C. Rawlings
Former Director of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services and former Judge of the US Juvenile Courts - (United States)
Patrick Kennedy
Former Member of the US House of Representatives - (United States)
Victor Tsilonis
Alternate Member, ICC Disciplinary Board (2018-2022); Greece's 2020 ICC Judicial Nominee; Vice-President for Victims of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Greece)
William Bourdon
International human rights lawyer; Founder of SHERPA; President of PPLAAF - (France)
Eric Sottas
Founder and former Secretary General of Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture - World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) - (Switzerland)
Peter Haynes KC
President, International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) (2019-2021) - (United Kingdom)
Steven M. Schneebaum
International Law and Organizations Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University - (United States)
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain, former Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Ben Saul
Challis Chair of International Law, University of Sydney - (Australia)
Alexander Alvarez
Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University; Founding Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values - (United States)
James Scott
Sterling Professor of Political Science; Director, Agrarian Studies Program; Professor of Anthropology, Yale University - (United States)
Sir Ivan Lawrence KC
Barrister; former Recorder of the Crown Courts; former Member of Parliament and Chairman of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee; Co-Chairman, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Eduardo Salvador Barcesat
Professor of Constitutional Law of Argentina, University of Buenos Aires (UBA); Member of the Constitutional Assembly of Argentina (1994) - (Argentina)
Laurel E. Fletcher
Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic; Co-Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, University of California Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley - (United States)
Timothy J. Christian KC
Chief Federal Negotiator of the Government of Canada (1996–2010) and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta (1985-1995) - (Canada)
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips
Former lead prosecutor in 12 precedent-setting genocide trials before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda between 1998 and 2010; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Contributor, International Criminal Investigations: Law and Practice, 2017 - (United Kingdom & Nigeria)
Alejandro Baer
Stephen C. Feinstein Chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS); Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota - (United States)
Geoffrey Dancy
Director, Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET); Associate Professor, University of Toronto - (United States)
Predrag Dojčinović
Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut; War Crimes expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2017) - (United States)
Benjamin E. Goldsmith
Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); scholar in genocide and mass atrocities - (Australia)
Jerry P. White
Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University; Director, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium - (Canada)
Ben Kiernan
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University; Professor of International & Area Studies, MacMillan Center; Founding Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program (1994-1999); Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1998-2015) at Yale University; Convenor of the Yale East Timor Project (2000-2002) - (United States)
Fabián O. Raimondo
Associate Professor of Public International Law, Maastricht University; Executive Director, Maastricht Blog on Transitional Justice (www.transitionaljustice.net); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Argentina)
Sara Chandler KC (Hon)
Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe - FBE) and former President of the FBE; Former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, Law Society of England & Wales - (United Kingdom)
Kirsty Brimelow KC
Vice Chair of Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales; Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Yasushi Higashizawa
Professor, Faculty of Law, Meijigakuin University; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA); Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Japan)
Felicity Gerry KC
Barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London; Professor of Legal Practice, Deakin University; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Richard C. Dieter, J.D.
Former Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Adjunct Professor of Law at the Catholic University of America - (United States)
Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Max du Plessis
Senior Counsel, Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University; Senior Research Associate at Institute for Security Studies; Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers of London - (South Africa)
Brian Kennedy
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University; Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - (Canada)
Jonathan Elystan Rees KC
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Nicholas Grief
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent; Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Gerhard Kemp
Professor of Law, University of Derby; Extraordinary Professor of Public Law, Stellenbosch University - (United Kingdom / South Africa)
Jennifer Wright Knust
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University; Director, Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies; Co-Director, Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab - (United Kingdom)
Jared O. Bell
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (TJ Centre), Western University (Canada) - (United States)
Pearl Eliadis
Law Office of Pearl Eliadis (practice in human rights); Associate Professor (Professional), McGill University - (Canada)
Louise Mallinder
Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Tracy M. Lemos
Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies and Religion, University of Toronto; Professor of Hebrew Bible and Faculty Affiliate of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Western University - (Canada)
Alexander Motyl
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University - (United States)
Timothy Williams
Junior Professor of Insecurity and Social Order, Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany); 2nd Vice President, International Association of Genocide Studies (IAGS) - (Germany)
Caroline Bennett
Associate Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington; Advisory Board Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (New Zealand)
Achille Campagna
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (San Marino)
Peter Carter KC
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC); patron of Amicus - (United Kingdom)
Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University - (United States)
David Matas
Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China - (Canada)
Amos Waldman
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
François Larocque
Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa; Fellow 2021, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation - (Canada)
Hilary Earl
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nipissing University; former Member of the Advisory Board, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Canada)
Greg Boos
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Hon. Jocelynne A. Scutt
Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham; former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania; former judge on the High Court of Fiji - (Australia)
Geoffrey Philip Roberts
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Juan Carlos Manriquez
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Proceedings and International Criminal Law - (Chile)
Amanda Grzyb
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario; Project Director, Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, University of Western Ontario - (Canada)
John Traversi
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC); Barrister, 9BR Chambers in London - (United Kingdom)
Jennifer Leaning
Former FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and former Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow at the FXB Center and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School - (United States)
Johan D. van der Vyver
I.T. Cohen Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Emory University School of Law - (South Africa)
David Palumbo-Liu
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University - (United States)
Jelia Sane
Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Flynn Coleman
Technology & Human Rights Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - (United States)
Thom Dyke
Barrister at Deka Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United Kingdom)
Tozun Bahcheli
Emeritus Professor of Political Science, King's University College, University of Western Ontario - (Canada)
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)
Clair Duffy
Former Prosecution Appeals Counsel, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - (Australia)
Habib Nassar
Director of Policy and Research, Impunity Watch; former Senior Transitional Justice Advisor/Human Rights Officer, OHCHR - (The Netherlands)
Adam M. VanHo
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (United States)
Paulo Ilich Bacca
Deputy Director, Center for Law, Justice and Society, Dejusticia - (Colombia)
Steven Leonard Jacobs
Professor of Religious Studies and Emeritus Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama; former First Vice-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (United States)
Adam Muller
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba - (Canada)
Ranjana Kumari
Director, Centre for Social Research (CSR); former Member, Task Force on Industrial Relations, International Labour Organization (ILO) - (India)
Nigel Edwards KC
Head of International Law, 33 Bedford Row - (United Kingdom)