Signatories of Statement by Prominent Women: Save Zahra Tabari from Execution in Iran - December 2025
More than 400 prominent women worldwide — including Nobel laureates, former presidents and prime ministers, parliamentarians, UN special rapporteurs, media personalities, sporting icons and leading human rights defenders — have signed an urgent public statement calling for the immediate release of a women’s rights champion in Iran. Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian mother and engineer, is at imminent risk of execution for holding up a banner bearing the words “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
Read the statement here.
Distinguished Signatories
Yulia Tymoshenko
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine - (Ukraine)
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Former President of Switzerland - (Switzerland)
Anneli Jäätteenmäki
Former Prime Minister of Finland - (Finland)
Amb. Samantha Power
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations - (United States)
Martina Navratilova
Former world No. 1 women's tennis player - (Czech Republic/United States)
Sharron Davies MBE
Swimmer, Olympic medallist - (United Kingdom)
Tracy Edwards MBE
Founder, The Maiden Factor - (United Kingdom)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (Ukraine)
Jody Williams
1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - (United States)
Yakin Ertürk
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women; Former Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women - (Turkey)
Cherie Blair CBE KC
Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women - (United Kingdom)
Hanna Suchocka
Former Prime Minister of Poland - (Poland)
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano
Former President of Ecuador - (Ecuador)
Mercedes Aráoz
Former Prime Minister of Peru - (Peru)
Amb. Amanda Ellis
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls - (New Zealand)
Kateryna Yushchenko
Former First Lady of Ukraine - (Ukraine)
Melissa Upreti
Former Chair Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls - (Nepal)
Yoko Hayashi
Former Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - (Japan)
Alda M. Facio
Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls - (Costa Rica)
Barbara Lochbihler
Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances - (Germany)
Ana Brian Nougrères
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy - (Uruguay)
Anna Adamska-Gallant
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights - (Poland)
Annie Ernaux
2022 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (France)
Rosa Zafferani
Former Captain Regent of San Marino - (San Marino)
Cristina Narbona
President of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Elisabeth Badinter
Philosopher - (France)
Brigitte Zypries
Former Justice Minister - (Germany)
Frances Fitzgerald
Former Justice Minister - (Ireland)
Maria Celeste Cardona
Former Justice Minister - (Portugal)
Judy Sgro
Former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration - (Canada)
Yanghee Lee
Former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child - (South Korea)
Karen Smith
UN Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021) - (South Africa)
Catherine McKenna
Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change - (Canada)
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Human rights and democracy advocate - (Canada)
Licypriya Kangujam
Special Envoy for the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste; Climate & Environmentalist Activist - (India)
Maud De Boer-Buquicchio
Former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe - (The Netherlands)
Elisabeth Rasmusson
Former UN Assistant Secretary General - (Norway)
Irmgard Griss
Former President of the Supreme Court of Austria - (Austria)
Catherine Van de Heyning
Member, UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee - (Belgium)
Hedy Fry
Former Minister of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women; Member of Parliament - (Canada)
Rep. Nancy Mace
Member of the US House of Representatives - (United States)
Leah Gazan
Member of Parliament - (Canada)
Elena Nevado del Campo
Member of the European Parliament - (Spain)
Rt Hon Baroness Hughes of Stretford
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Dominique Voynet
Member of Parliament - (France)
Naike Gruppioni
Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo
Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Karin Liltorp
Member of Parliament - (Denmark)
Laurence Fehlmann Rielle
Member of Parliament - (Switzerland)
Kathleen Depoorter
Member of Parliament - (Belgium)
Sara Conti
Member of Parliament - (San Marino)
Janja Sluga
Member of Parliament - (Slovenia)
Ersilia Qatrawi
Member of Parliament - (Moldova)
Erin McGreehan TD
Member of Parliament - (Ireland)
Janny Bakker-Klein
Senator - (The Netherlands)
Christine Bonfanti
Senator - (France)
Elisa Pirro
Senator - (Italy)
Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam
Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly - (France)
Eleonora Zielińska
Former Chair-Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice - (Poland)
Helen Keller
Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2011-2020) - (Switzerland)
Gabriela Knaul
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers - (Brazil)
Dame Theresa Villiers
Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - (United Kingdom)
Linda Blade
Coach; Former NCAA All American and National Champion of Canada in track & field - (Canada)
Kim McGinnis Russell
World Lacrosse Women in Sport Commission (2024), Advocate for Women & Girls, Athletes for Action - (United States)
Rebecka Andersson
Secretary General, Unizon - (Sweden)
Alison Brown
President, International Alliance of Women (IAW) - (United States)
Gerlinde Freia Niehus
Former Deputy Director, NATO - (Germany)
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism - (Ireland)
Inga Thompson
Cyclist, 3-time Olympian, 10-time US National Champion, and 3-time World Medallist - (United States)
Waad Al-Kateab
Oscar-nominated film director - (United Kingdom)
Antonella Mularoni
Former Foreign Minister - (San Marino)
Leila Nadya Sadat
Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023) - (United States)
Trina Budge
Director, For Women Scotland - (United Kingdom)
Susan Smith
Director, For Women Scotland - (United Kingdom)
Marion Calder
Director, For Women Scotland - (United Kingdom)
Senator Sandy Pappas
President of the Minnesota Senate (2013-2017); Member of the Minnesota Senate - (United States)
Shaista Shameem
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Use of Mercenaries - (Fiji)
Anne Ramberg
Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - (Sweden)
Ana Helena Chacón
Former Vice-President of Costa Rica - (Costa Rica)
Elfriede Jelinek
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature - (Austria)
Yasmin Sooka
Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan - (South Africa)
Elizabeth Odio Benito
Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights - (Costa Rica)
Justice Florence N.M. Mumba
Former Vice President, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY) - (Zambia)
Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights - (Chile)
Candice Bergen
Former Leader of the Official Opposition - (Canada)
Beth Van Schaack
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022-2025) - (United States)
Dominique Attias
Former President, European Bars Federation (FBE) - (France)
Diane Orentlicher
Former UN Independent Expert on Combating Impunity - (United States)
Amy Kremer
Chair, Women for America First - (United States)
Julia Goodman
Actress - (United Kingdom)
Gwendoline Hamon
Comedian - (France)
Urmila Bhoola
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery - (South Africa)
Ingrid Betancourt
Former Senator and Presidential candidate - (Colombia)
Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law - (United Kingdom)
Joanna Cherry KC
Former Chair of UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights - (United Kingdom)
Lobna Jeribi
Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research - (Tunisia)
Lady Valerie Corbett
Founder, Lady Val's Professional Women's Network - (United Kingdom)
Hiljmnijeta Apuk
Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013 - (Kosovo)
Gulnara Shahinian
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences - (Armenia)
Amb. Filloreta Kodra
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva - (Albania)
Amb. Zorica Marić
Former Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council - (Montenegro)
Amb. Alma Lama
Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino - (Kosovo)
Maude Barlow
Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians - (Canada)
Raymonde Poncet Monge
Senator - (France)
Gisella Naturale
Senator - (Italy)
Dolores Bevilacqua
Senator - (Italy)
Estefania Beltran
Senator - (Spain)
Laura Castel Fort
Senator - (Spain)
Elly van Wijk
Senator - (The Netherlands)
Christina Blacklaws
Former President of the Law Society of England and Wales - (United Kingdom)
Barbara Bernath
Member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT); Former Secretary General, Association for the Prevention of Torture - (Switzerland)
Sonja Biserko
Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014) - (Serbia)
Arbana Xharra
Recipient of US Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award 2015 - (Kosovo)
Helen Goodman
Former Deputy Leader of the House of Commons - (United Kingdom)
Houria Esslami
Former Chair-Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - (Morocco)
Sandra Gómez López
Member of the European Parliament - (Spain)
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú
Member of the European Parliament - (Ireland)
Annick Lambrecht
Member of Parliament - (Belgium)
Marta Madrenas Mir
Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Olvido De la Rosa Baena
Member of Parliament - (Spain)
María Sáinz Martín
Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Irene Manzi
Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Cristina Almici
Member of Parliament - (Italy)
Alenka Jeraj
Member of Parliament - (Slovenia)
Eva Platteau
Senator - (Belgium)
Hannelore Goeman
Member of the Flemish Parliament - (Belgium)
Katrien Partyka
Member of the Flemish Parliament - (Belgium)
Nahima Lanjri
Member of Parliament - (Belgium)
Goedele Liekens
Senator - (Belgium)
Pilar Rojo Noguera
Senator - (Spain)
Julia Unterberger
Senator - (Italy)
Carmen Leyte Coello
Senator - (Spain)
Gisèle Mandaila
Member of the Brussels Parliament - (Belgium)
Françoise Schepmans
Member of the Brussels Parliament - (Belgium)
Baroness Eaton
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Baroness Lister
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Baroness Bray of Coln
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Baroness Ros Altmann
Member of the House of Lords - (United Kingdom)
Ellen Samyn
Member of Parliament - (Belgium)
Melissa Parke
Former Minister for International Development (AusAID) - (Australia)
Serena Oberstein
Los Angeles County Human Relations Commissioner - (United States)
Karen Gomez Dumpit
Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) - (Philippines)
Veronica Undurraga
President of the Expert Commission of the Constitutional Council of Chile (2023) - (Chile)
Soledad Villagra
Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008) - (Paraguay)
Monika Płatek
UN Expert, OHCHR Examination of the Human Rights Situation in Belarus - (Poland)
Miriam Ekiudoko
Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - (Hungary)
Kate Vigneswaran
Director of the Global Accountability Initiative, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - (The Netherlands)
Susan Bazilli
Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus; Director, International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP) - (Canada)
Naomi Long MLA
Minister of Justice of Northern Ireland - (Northern Ireland)
Heledd Fychan MS
Member of the Welsh Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Maggie Chapman MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Connie Egan
Member of the Legislative Assembly - (Northern Ireland)
Baroness Katy Clark
Member of the Scottish Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Kate Nicholl
Member of the Legislative Assembly - (Northern Ireland)
Johana Gustawsson
Writer - (France)
Bina D’Costa
Member, UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - (Australia/Bangladesh)
Anna Neistat
Legal Director, The Docket (Clooney Foundation for Justice) - (France)
Sinead McLaughlin
Member of the Legislative Assembly - (Northern Ireland)
Marie-Laure Colonna
Author - (Switzerland)
Florence Mariko Combescure
Sculptor - (France)
Sonia Heller
Singer and songwriter - (Switzerland)
Mora Furtado
TV show host - (Argentina)
Marion Böker
Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues - (Germany)
Hon. Jocelynne Scutt
Former judge on the High Court of Fiji - (United Kingdom/Australia)
Sareta Ashraph
Chair of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee - (Trinidad and Tobago)
Siobhan Wills
Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University - (Northern Ireland)
Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - (Canada)
Donna M. Hughes
Professor Emerita, University of Rhode Island - (United States)
Debbie Stothard
Former Secretary-General, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) - (Vietnam)
Eleonora Mongelli
Vice President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) - (Italy)
Susanne Brandtstädter
Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne - (Germany)
Hilary Earl
Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University - (Canada)
Helen Duffy
Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Leiden - (United Kingdom)
Irene Victoria Massimino
High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020) - (Argentina)
Anila Ali
President and CEO, American Muslim and Multifaith Women's Empowerment Council - (United States)
Anja Matwijkiw
Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest - (United States)
Rosa Ana Alija Fernández
Associate Professor of International Law, University of Barcelona - (Spain)
Joan Francesca Quint
Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers - (United Kingdom)
Katerina Hatzikidi
Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany) - (United Kingdom)
Aurora Ciucă
President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association - (Romania)
Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate
Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network - (Togo)
Mireille Rebeiz
Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College - (United States)
Melinda Taylor
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (Australia)
Hannah R. Garry
Professor, USC Gould School of Law - (United States)
Antonietta Elia
International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe - (Italy)
Pearl Eliadis
Human rights lawyer - (Canada)
Stephanie Wolfe
Professor, Weber State University (WSU) - (United States)
Eva Pils
Humboldt Professor of Human Rights Law, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg - (United Kingdom)
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Distinguished Professor of Law (emeritus), UC Law San Francisco - (United States)
Anabela Atanásio Alves
Senior International Criminal Lawyer - (Portugal)
Jennifer Wright Knust
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University - (United Kingdom)
Sandra M. Coyle
Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP) - (United States)
Carmen Márquez-Carrasco
Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Sevilla - (Spain)
Louise Mallinder
Professor of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Susan Lee Kemp
Former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) - (United Kingdom)
Liesbeth Zegveld
Professor of War Reparations, University of Amsterdam - (The Netherlands)
Elaine Arnull
Associate Dean and Professor, University of Wolverhampton - (United Kingdom)
Margaret Greenfields
Professor of Social Policy - (United Kingdom)
Andrea Shemberg
Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights - (Italy)
Lindsay M. Harris
Professor of Law and Director of the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic, University of San Francisco School of Law - (United States)
Erica Lawson
Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Western University - (Canada)
Lia Tsuladze
Executive Director, Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi - (Georgia)
Judith Armatta
Author and Human Rights Lawyer - (United States)
Alia Brahimi
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council - (United Kingdom)
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Faculty Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Yeshiva University - (United States)
Luciana Minassian
Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Buenos Aires - (Argentina)
Elisabeth Driscoll
UK Bureau Chief, JURIST - (United Kingdom)
Ellen van Thiel
Senior legal adviser - human rights - (United States)
Gloria Cano
Director, APRODEH (Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos) - (Peru)
Staša Zajović
Co-Founder & Coordinator, Women in Black - (Serbia)
Sara Chandler KC (Hon)
Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (FBE) - (United Kingdom)
Michaela Streibelt
Lawyer - (Germany)
Rev. Susan Lee
Former President, US Women’s Caucus - (United States)
Francisca Pou Giménez
Professor of Constitutional Law, UNAM - (Mexico)
Aoife O’Donoghue
QUB Academic Director, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast - (United Kingdom)
Tamta Mikeladze
Director, Social Justice Center; Associate Professor, Ilia State University - (Georgia)
Iulia Kharashvili
Chairperson of the IDP Women Association 'Consent' - (Georgia)
Niamh Harnett
Barrister At Law, The Bar of Ireland - (Ireland)
Tamar Dekanosidze
Eurasia Regional Representative, Equality Now - (Georgia)
Loveday C. Hodson
Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Leicester - (United Kingdom)
Sandra L. Babcock
Faculty Director, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide; Co-Founder, Center on Gender and Extreme Sentencing - (United States)
Blaine Bookey
Legal Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco - (United States)
Heather Daley
Arts Consultant - (Canada)
Carole Rubin
Former Artistic Director and Coordinator - (Canada)
Allison Gill
Legal Director, Global Labor Justice - (United States)
Joanna Dingwall
Visiting Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow - (United Kingdom/Germany)
Lauren Dempster
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast - (United Kingdom)
Liselott Blixt
Former Member of Parliament - (Denmark)
Kate Engel
Graduate Researcher, Deakin University - (Australia)
Eva Durán Ramos
Former Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Pauline Kerkour el Miad
Legal expert - (France)
Darcia Senft
Former General Counsel and Director of Policy & Ethics at the Law Society of Manitoba - (Canada)
Marta Achler
International Human Rights Lawyer - (Italy)
María Elena Elverdín
Honorary President, International Federation of Women in Legal Careers - (Argentina)
Hilary Burrage
Sociologist and Writer - (United Kingdom)
Pascale Mesnil
President, European Union of Women - (France)
Sheila Paylan
Human Rights Lawyer - (Armenia/Canada)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Maria Neus Torbisco-Casals
Senior Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute - (Switzerland)
Melanie O'Brien
Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) - (Australia)
Victoria Sanford
Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI) - (United States)
Marie Fox
Queen Victoria Chair of Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool - (United Kingdom)
ElsaMarie Dsilva
Founder and President, Red Dot Foundation Global - (India)
Claire Mahon
Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group - (New Zealand)
Elise Groulx Diggs
Founder and Honorary President of the International Criminal Bar for the International Criminal Court - (Canada)
Natasha Lindstaedt
Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex - (United Kingdom)
Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law - (United States)
Sarah Annes Brown
Professor, Anglia Ruskin University - (United Kingdom)
Rebecca A. Shoot
Co-Convener, Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court - (United States)
Samantha Knights KC
Barrister - (United Kingdom)
Dara Foynes
Barrister - (Ireland)
Agata Fijalkowski
Reader in Law, Leeds Beckett University - (United Kingdom)
Emilie Palamy Pradichit
Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation - (Thailand)
Claudia Mihaela Banu
Former Senator - (Romania)
Martha Bradley
Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law, University of Johannesburg - (South Africa)
Janina Dill
Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) - (United Kingdom)
Sarah Merrill
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Cathy Brennan
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Amy McNeese-Mechan
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Mandie Shilton Godwin
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Helen Cunningham
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Anne Hutton
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Jane Byrne
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Jane Leicester
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Angela Conder
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Hazel Pearson
University Lecturer - (United Kingdom)
Christy Fujio
Executive Director, Synergy for Justice - (United States)
Yael Danieli
Clinical Psychologist & Trauma Expert - (United States)
Giulia Centonze
Human Rights Expert - (Belgium)
Sophie Hale
Human Rights Officer, European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) - (Belgium)
Hiba Abdulwahhab
Executive Director, Middle Eastern Women's Organization - (United States)
Ronahi Hasan
Award-Winning Journalist - (United Kingdom)
Iliana Balabanova
President, Bulgarian Women's Lobby - (Bulgaria)
Mari-Ann Kelam
Former Member of Parliament - (Estonia)
Nancy Awad
Human Rights Lawyer - (France)
Martha Mattos-Coelho
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Martina Feilzer
University Professor - (United Kingdom)
Alice Benhamou Panetta
President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF) - (France)
Tricia Austin
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Joanne Bennett
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Elin Hywel
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Sarah Bogle
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Susan Elsmore
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Adele Barnett-Ward
Councillor - (United Kingdom)
Anthea McIntyre
Former Member of the European Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Margarita S. Ilieva
International equalities and human rights lawyer - (Bulgaria)
Linda MacDonald
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Gabriella Catalini
Adjunct professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna - (Italy)
Noanne Tenneson
General Director, Alliance of Lawyers for Human Rights - (France)
Claudia De La Hoz
Professor of Classical Literature, Lyon - (France/Colombia)
Catherine Ruph
Professor of Classical Literature, Lyon - (France)
Clara Bailly
Head Costume Designer, Paris - (France)
Elise Mosca
Artist - (France)
Marie Beltrami
Artist - (France)
Magali Aumignon
Painter - (France)
Sophie-Elena Jaquenod
Public speaker - (Switzerland)
Nicole Mathieu
Senior Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - (France)
Natacha Markarian
Artist - (France)
Valérie Perez
Writer, Destins de femmes 2021, Winner of the Edgar Faure Literary Prize - (France)
Pamela Perraud
President, US Women’s Caucus - (United States)
Behjat Dehghan
President, WomenNC-NC Committee for CSW/CEDAW - (United States)
Tanya Serisier
Professor in Feminist Theory, Birkbeck University of London - (United Kingdom)
Soizic le Guiff
Psycho-sociologist; Co-Director, Pilot Center for Biocentric Education, Nantes - (France)
Lisa Michalik
Artist - (France)
Olivia Loiseau
Artist, Actress, Dancer, Fashion Designer, Singer - (France)
Françoise Sème Wallon
National Secretary of the European Union of Women, French Section - (France)
Ranjana Kumari
Director, Centre for Social Research (CSR) - (India)
Alannah Travers
Former Iraq researcher - (United Kingdom/Germany)
Anna Bryson
Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) - (United Kingdom)
Sirra Ndow
Human Rights Advocate - (The Gambia)
Audrey Matéo
Legal Counsel - (France)
Feride Rushiti
Executive Director, Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims - (Kosovo)
Eleonora Esposito
Researcher, University of Navarra - (Spain)
Jessica Finelle
Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC) - (France)
Mae Thompson
Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights - (United States)
Clémence Witt
International Criminal Lawyer - (France)
Andreea Rusu
Executive Director, FILIA Center - (Romania)
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)
Edie Hofmeister
Chair of the Business and Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Association (2023-2025) - (United States)
Tali Nates
Recipient of the 2023 US Secretary of State Religious Freedom Award - (South Africa)
Ellen J. Kennedy
Executive Director, World Without Genocide - (United States)
Amy Strecker
Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin - (Ireland)
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016), Wilfrid Laurier University - (Canada)
Valerie Sperling
Professor of Political Science, Clark University - (United States)
Marion Kaplan
Professor Emerita, New York University - (United States)
Cindy Ayoma Rosa
Childhood trauma coach - (Portugal)
Alice Seuma Vidal
Pharmacist - (France)
Atina Grossmann
Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York City - (United States)
Susan Benesch
Executive Director, Dangerous Speech Project; Faculty Associate, Harvard University - (United States)
Luz E. Nagle
Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law - (United States)
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia - (Canada)
Elizabeth Wood
Ford International Professor of History, MIT - (United States)
Rochelle G. Ruthchild
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University - (United States)
Wendy Lower
Director, Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, Claremont CA - (United States)
Catherine Martinez-Briand
Writer - (France)
Cherifa Kheddar
President, Djazairouna Association of Families of Victims of Islamist Terrorism - (Algeria)
Pragna Patel
Co-Director, Project Resist - (United Kingdom)
Martine Brasseur
Emeritus Professor at Paris Cité University - (France)
Rosie Lewis
Co-Director, Project Resist - (United Kingdom)
Nicola Barker
Professor of Law, University of Liverpool - (United Kingdom)
Eléa Nora
Feminist activist - (France)
Patrycja Grzebyk
Associate Professor, University of Warsaw - (Poland)
Izabela Konopacka
Past President, European Bars Federation (FBE); President of the FBE Intellectual Property Law Commission - (Poland)
Artemis Westenberg
President, Netherlands Association for Women's Rights, Female Labour and Equal Citizenship - (The Netherlands)
Sylvie Rollet
Emeritus Professor, University of Poitiers - (France)
Anne-Sophie Besse
Researcher, University of Strasbourg - (France)
Tess White
Member of the Scottish Parliament - (United Kingdom)
Odile Rohmer
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Strasbourg - (France)
Brigitte Grosgogeat
Professor, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 - (France)
Siri Gloppen
Director, Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen - (Norway)
Eve Zucker
Lecturer, Yale University - (United States)
Janet Johnson
Professor, Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY - (United States)
Hélène Ollivier
Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - (France)
Karine Doré
Artist - (France)
Sylvie Jestin
Teacher - (France)
Sana Jahangir
Psychologist - (Pakistan)
Susannah Sjöberg
Secretary General, Swedish Women’s Lobby - (Sweden)
Maire Charlotte Blandiot-Faride
Mayor of Mitry-Mory - (France)
Colette Borelli
Author - (France)
Caroline Bennett
Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, Sussex University - (New Zealand)
Bernardita Núñez
Secretary General, Terrafem - (Sweden)
Annelie Kraft
Chair, Swedish Women's Left Alliance (SKV) - (Sweden)
Susanna Udvardi
Founder, Act For Integration - (Sweden)
Gunnel Hall
Chair, KvinnorKan - (Sweden)
Camilla Wagner
Chair, Fredrika Bremer Association - (Sweden)
Sanna Wolk
President, UN Association of Sweden - (Sweden)
Sirine Sehil
Feminist activist - (France)
Claire Chatelain
Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) - (France)
Talent Jumo
Director, Katswe Sistahood - (Zimbabwe)
Mahin Alipour
Chair, Committee for the Defence of Women in Iran (KFKI) - (Sweden)
Stéphanie Talbot
Founder, Talitha Koumi Ministry - (France)
Alix Sordet
Illustrator - (France)
Marie-Annick Barthe
President, Collective of Social Democrats Reformers (CSDR) - (France)
Celine Dumas
Artist, author, singer - (France)
Martine Kleinberg
President, Jewish Call for Peace - (Luxembourg)
Susanne Hendrika Flølo
Senior Adviser, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) - (Norway)
Fabienne Brugère
Philosopher - (France)
Christiane Perregaux
University Professor - (Switzerland)
Cristina Iurisniti
Former Member of Parliament - (Romania)
Maria Eugenia Barna
Former Member of Parliament - (Romania)
Maria Grecea
Former Member of Parliament - (Romania)
Anda Abiculesi
Lawyer - (Romania)
Iulia Dascalu
Former Member of Parliament - (Moldova)
Valentina Ghetu
Former Member of Parliament - (Moldova)
Dorien Rookmaker
Former Member of the European Parliament - (The Netherlands)
Mina Minaee
Anti-racist leader of the Socialist Youth - (Norway)
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention - (United States)
Tracy M. Lemos
Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto - (Canada)
Dominique Day
Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent - (United States)
Abbé Jolles
International Human Rights Litigator - (United States)
Alice Hardy
Partner at Bindmans - (United Kingdom)
Charli Carpenter
Director of Human Security Lab and Professor of International Relations, University of Massachusetts Amherst - (United States)
Nora Markard
Professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights, University of Münster - (Germany)
Jeanne Sarson
Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) - (Canada)
Sandra Fredman FBA KC (Hon)
Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA, Director of the Oxford Human Hub, Oxford University - (United Kingdom)
Avril Alba
Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney - (Australia)
Sarah Magill
Managing Director, Free From Fear - (United Kingdom)
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain - (Italy)
Carmen Quintanilla
Former Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Sophie Rohonyi
President of the Independent Federalist Democrat (DéFI) Party - (Belgium)
Gari Duran Vadell
Former Senator; Vice President, INCO Human Rights - (Spain)
Aina Vidal Sáez
Member of Parliament - (Spain)
Alicia Torija
Member of the Parliament of Madrid - (Spain)
Nicola Macbean
Executive Director, The Rights Practice - (United Kingdom)
Astrid Thors
Former Minister of Migration and European; Former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities - (Finland)
Latifa Aït Baala
Member of the Brussels Parliament - (Belgium)
Meyrem Almaci
Member of the Flemish Parliament - (Belgium)
Sanna Marin
Former Prime Minister of Finland - (Finland)