23 December 2025, London: 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 on death row 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.”
On 7 July 2025, Iran’s state media called for a repeat of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Since then, there has been a stark increase in the number of political executions and death sentences.
The appeal to stop Tabari’s execution has been organised by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI).
Prominent women who have joined the appeal include nine former heads of state or government, three former Justice Ministers, and Members of Parliament from 14 countries.
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The following is the text of their appeal:
“Woman, Resistance, Freedom” – Save Zahra Tabari from Execution in Iran
We condemn the Iranian authorities’ death sentence against Zahra Tabari—a 67-year-old mother and engineer—handed down in October 2025 in a sham 10-minute trial, held remotely via videoconference without her chosen legal representation. Zahra is accused of collaborating with the opposition PMOI and faces execution solely for holding a banner bearing the words “Woman, Resistance, Freedom”—a slogan of women’s defiance that has gained popularity particularly among female political prisoners.
For four decades, Iranian authorities have enforced brutal gender apartheid and institutionalised misogyny including through forced veiling. Thousands of female political prisoners have been executed, many during Iran’s 1988 massacre. Iran is today the world’s number one executioner of women per capita. Zahra’s case lays bare this terror: in Iran, daring to hold a sign declaring women’s resistance to oppression is now punishable by death.
Iranian women, who ignited the 2022 uprising and continue to lead a nationwide movement of resistance against tyranny, will not be silenced.
We demand Zahra’s immediate release, and we call on governments worldwide to stand with the women of Iran in their quest for democracy, equality, and freedom.
SIGNED:
- Yulia Tymoshenko – (Ukraine): Former Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Micheline Calmy-Rey – (Switzerland): Former President of Switzerland
- Anneli Jäätteenmäki – (Finland): Former Prime Minister of Finland
- Amb. Samantha Power – (United States): Former US Ambassador to the United Nations
- Martina Navratilova – (Czech Republic/United States): Former world No. 1 women’s tennis player
- Sharron Davies MBE – (United Kingdom): Swimmer, Olympic medallist
- Tracy Edwards MBE – (United Kingdom): Founder, The Maiden Factor
- Oleksandra Matviichuk – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Jody Williams – (United States): 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Yakin Ertürk – (Turkey): Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women; Former Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women
- Cherie Blair CBE KC – (United Kingdom): Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
- Hanna Suchocka – (Poland): Former Prime Minister of Poland
- Rosalía Arteaga Serrano – (Ecuador): Former President of Ecuador
- Mercedes Aráoz – (Peru): Former Prime Minister of Peru
- Amb. Amanda Ellis – (New Zealand): Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls
- Kateryna Yushchenko – (Ukraine): Former First Lady of Ukraine
- Melissa Upreti – (Nepal): Former Chair Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
- Yoko Hayashi – (Japan): Former Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- Alda M. Facio – (Costa Rica): Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
- Barbara Lochbihler – (Germany): Former Member of the European Parliament
- Ana Brian Nougrères – (Uruguay): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
- Anna Adamska-Gallant – (Poland): Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
- Annie Ernaux – (France): 2022 Nobel Laureate in Literature
- Rosa Zafferani – (San Marino): Former Captain Regent of San Marino
- Cristina Narbona – (Spain): President of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, Member of Parliament
- Elisabeth Badinter – (France): Philosopher
- Brigitte Zypries – (Germany): Former Justice Minister
- Frances Fitzgerald – (Ireland): Former Justice Minister
- Maria Celeste Cardona – (Portugal): Former Justice Minister
- Judy Sgro – (Canada): Former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
- Yanghee Lee – (South Korea): Former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Karen Smith – (South Africa): UN Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021)
- Catherine McKenna – (Canada): Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam – (Canada): Human rights and democracy advocate
- Licypriya Kangujam – (India): Special Envoy for the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste; Indian Climate & Environmentalist Activist
- Maud De Boer-Buquicchio – (The Netherlands): Former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- Elisabeth Rasmusson – (Norway): Former UN Assistant Secretary General
- Irmgard Griss – (Austria): Former President of the Supreme Court of Austria
- Catherine Van de Heyning – (Belgium): Member, UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
- Hedy Fry – (Canada): Member of Parliament; Former Minister of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women
- Rep. Nancy Mace – (United States): Member of the US House of Representatives
- Leah Gazan – (Canada): Member of Parliament
- Elena Nevado del Campo – (Spain): Member of the European Parliament
- Rt Hon Baroness Hughes of Stretford – (United Kingdom): Member of the House of Lords
- Dominique Voynet – (France): Member of Parliament
- Naike Gruppioni – (Italy): Member of Parliament
- Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo – (Spain): Member of Parliament
- Karin Liltorp – (Denmark): Member of Parliament
- Laurence Fehlmann Rielle – (Switzerland): Member of Parliament
- Kathleen Depoorter – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
- Sara Conti – (San Marino): Member of Parliament
- Janja Sluga – (Slovenia): Member of Parliament
- Ersilia Qatrawi – (Moldova): Member of Parliament
- Erin McGreehan TD – (Ireland): Member of Parliament
- Janny Bakker-Klein – (The Netherlands): Senator
- Christine Bonfanti – (France): Senator
- Senator Elisa Pirro – (Italy): Senator
- Senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam – (France): Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
- Eleonora Zielińska – (Poland): Former Chair-Rapporteur, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice
- Helen Keller – (Switzerland): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (2011-2020)
- Gabriela Knaul – (Brazil): UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015)
- Rt Hon Dame Theresa Villiers DBE – (United Kingdom): Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Linda Blade – (Canada): Coach; Former NCAA All American and National Champion of Canada in track & field
- Kim McGinnis Russell – (United States): World Lacrosse Women in Sport Commission (2024), Advocate for Women & Girls, Athletes for Action
- Rebecka Andersson – (Sweden): Secretary General, Unizon
- Alison Brown – (United States): President, International Alliance of Women (IAW)
- Gerlinde Freia Niehus – (Germany): Former Deputy Director, NATO
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons) – (Ireland): Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism
- Inga Thompson – (United States): Cyclist, 3-time Olympian, 10-time US National Champion, and 3-time World Medallist
- Waad Al-Kateab – (United Kingdom): Oscar-nominated film director
- Antonella Mularoni – (San Marino): Former Foreign Minister
- Leila Nadya Sadat – (United States): Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023)
- Trina Budge – (United Kingdom): Director, For Women Scotland
- Susan Smith – (United Kingdom): Director, For Women Scotland
- Marion Calder – (United Kingdom): Director, For Women Scotland
- Senator Sandy Pappas – (United States): President of the Minnesota Senate (2013-2017); Member of the Minnesota Senate
- Shaista Shameem – (Fiji): Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Use of Mercenaries
- Anne Ramberg – (Sweden): Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
- Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría – (Costa Rica): Former Vice-President of Costa Rica
- Elfriede Jelinek – (Austria): 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature
- Yasmin Sooka – (South Africa): Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan
- Elizabeth Odio Benito – (Costa Rica): Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Justice Florence N.M. Mumba – (Zambia): Former Vice President, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY)
- Cecilia Medina Quiroga – (Chile): Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Candice Bergen – (Canada): Former Leader of the Official Opposition
- Amb. Beth Van Schaack – (United States): US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022-2025)
- Dominique Attias – (France): Former President, European Bars Federation (FBE)
- Diane Orentlicher – (United States): Former UN Independent Expert on Combating Impunity
- Amy Kremer – (United States): Chair, Women for America First
- Julia Goodman – (United Kingdom): Actress
- Gwendoline Hamon – (France): Comedian
- Urmila Bhoola – (South Africa): Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Ingrid Betancourt – (Colombia): Former Senator and Presidential candidate
- Kate Mackintosh – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law
- Joanna Cherry KC – (United Kingdom): Former Chair of UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights
- Lobna Jeribi – (Tunisia): Former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
- Lady Valerie Corbett – (United Kingdom): Founder, Lady Val’s Professional Women’s Network
- Hiljmnijeta Apuk – (Kosovo): Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013
- Gulnara Shahinian – (Armenia): Former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences
- Amb. Filloreta Kodra – (Albania): Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva
- Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević – (Montenegro): Former Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council
- Amb. Alma Lama – (Kosovo): Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino
- Maude Barlow – (Canada): Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
- Raymonde Poncet Monge – (France): Senator
- Senator Gisella Naturale – (Italy): Senator
- Senator Dolores Bevilacqua – (Italy): Senator
- Senator Estefania Beltran – (Spain): Senator
- Senator Laura Castel Fort – (Spain): Senator
- Senator Elly van Wijk – (The Netherlands): Senator
- Christina Blacklaws – (United Kingdom): Former President of the Law Society of England and Wales
- Barbara Bernath – (Switzerland): Member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT); Former Secretary General, Association for the Prevention of Torture
- Sonja Biserko – (Serbia): Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014)
- Arbana Xharra – (Kosovo): Recipient of US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award 2015
- Helen Goodman – (United Kingdom): Former Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
- Houria Esslami – (Morocco): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2014-2020)
- Sandra Gómez López – (Spain): Member of the European Parliament
- Cynthia Ní Mhurchú – (Ireland): Member of the European Parliament
- Annick Lambrecht – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
- Marta Madrenas Mir – (Spain): Member of Parliament
- Olvido De la Rosa Baena – (Spain): Member of Parliament
- María Sáinz Martín – (Spain): Member of Parliament
- Irene Manzi – (Italy): Member of Parliament
- Cristina Almici – (Italy): Member of Parliament
- Alenka Jeraj – (Slovenia): Member of Parliament
- Senator Eva Platteau – (Belgium): Senator
- Hannelore Goeman – (Belgium): Member of the Flemish Parliament
- Katrien Partyka – (Belgium): Member of the Flemish Parliament
- Nahima Lanjri – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
- Senator Goedele Liekens – (Belgium): Senator
- Pilar Rojo Noguera – (Spain): Senator
- Julia Unterberger – (Italy): Senator
- Carmen Leyte Coello – (Spain): Senator
- Gisèle Mandaila – (Belgium): Member of the Brussels Parliament
- Françoise Schepmans – (Belgium): Member of the Brussels Parliament
- Baroness Eaton – (United Kingdom): Member of the House of Lords
- Baroness Lister – (United Kingdom): Member of the House of Lords
- Baroness Bray of Coln – (United Kingdom): Member of the House of Lords
- Baroness Ros Altmann – (United Kingdom): Member of the House of Lords
- Ellen Samyn – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
- Melissa Parke – (Australia): Member, UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (2017–2021); Former Minister for International Development (AusAID)
- Serena Oberstein – (United States): Los Angeles County Human Relations Commissioner
- Karen Gomez Dumpit – (Philippines): Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR)
- Veronica Undurraga – (Chile): President of the Expert Commission of the Constitutional Council of Chile (2023)
- Soledad Villagra – (Paraguay): Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008)
- Monika Płatek – (Poland): UN Expert, OHCHR Examination of the Human Rights Situation in Belarus
- Miriam Ekiudoko – (Hungary): Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
- Kate Vigneswaran – (The Netherlands): Director of the Global Accountability Initiative, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
- Susan Bazilli – (Canada): Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus; Director, International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP)
- Naomi Long MLA – (Northern Ireland): Minister of Justice of Northern Ireland
- Heledd Fychan MS – (United Kingdom): Member of the Welsh Parliament
- Maggie Chapman MSP – (United Kingdom): Member of the Scottish Parliament
- Connie Egan – (Northern Ireland): Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Baroness Katy Clark – (United Kingdom): Member of the Scottish Parliament
- Kate Nicholl – (Northern Ireland): Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Johana Gustawsson – (France): Writer
- Bina D’Costa – (Australia/Bangladesh): Member, UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
- Anna Neistat – (France): Legal Director, The Docket (Clooney Foundation for Justice)
- Sinead McLaughlin – (Northern Ireland): Member of the Legislative Assembly
- Marie-Laure Colonna – (Switzerland): Author
- Florence Mariko Combescure – (France): Sculptor
- Sonia Heller – (Switzerland): Singer and songwriter
- Mora Furtado – (Argentina): TV show host
- Marion Böker – (Germany): Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues
- Hon. Jocelynne A. Scutt – (United Kingdom/Australia): Former judge on the High Court of Fiji
- Sareta Ashraph – (Trinidad and Tobago): Chair of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee
- Siobhan Wills – (Northern Ireland): Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University
- Rebecca Cook – (Canada): Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
- Donna M. Hughes – (United States): Professor Emerita, University of Rhode Island
- Debbie Stothard – (Vietnam): Former Secretary-General, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- Eleonora Mongelli – (Italy): Vice President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)
- Susanne Brandtstädter – (Germany): Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne
- Hilary Earl – (Canada): Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University
- Helen Duffy – (United Kingdom): Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Leiden
- Irene Victoria Massimino – (Argentina): High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020)
- Anila Ali – (United States): President and CEO, American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council
- Anja Matwijkiw – (United States): Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest
- Rosa Ana Alija Fernández – (Spain): Associate Professor of International Law, University of Barcelona
- Joan Francesca Quint – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers
- Katerina Hatzikidi – (United Kingdom): Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
- Aurora Ciucă – (Romania): President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association
- Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate – (Togo): Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network
- Mireille Rebeiz – (United States): Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College
- Melinda Taylor – (Australia): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Hannah R. Garry – (United States): Professor, USC Gould School of Law
- Antonietta Elia – (Italy): International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe
- Pearl Eliadis – (Canada): Human rights lawyer
- Stephanie Wolfe – (United States): Professor, Weber State University (WSU)
- Eva Pils – (United Kingdom): Humboldt Professor of Human Rights Law, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Naomi Roht-Arriaza – (United States): Distinguished Professor of Law (emeritus), UC Law San Francisco
- Anabela Atanásio Alves – (Portugal): Senior International Criminal Lawyer
- Jennifer Wright Knust – (United Kingdom): Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
- Sandra M. Coyle – (United States): Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP)
- Carmen Márquez-Carrasco – (Spain): Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Sevilla
- Louise Mallinder – (United Kingdom): Professor of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
- Susan Lee Kemp – (United Kingdom): Former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC)
- Liesbeth Zegveld – (The Netherlands): Professor of War Reparations, University of Amsterdam
- Elaine Arnull – (United Kingdom): Associate Dean and Professor, University of Wolverhampton
- Margaret Greenfields – (United Kingdom): Professor of Social Policy
- Andrea Shemberg – (Italy): Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights
- Lindsay M. Harris – (United States): Professor of Law and Director of the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic, University of San Francisco School of Law
- Erica Lawson – (Canada): Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University
- Lia Tsuladze – (Georgia): Executive Director, Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi
- Judith Armatta – (United States): Author and Human Rights Lawyer
- Alia Brahimi – (United Kingdom): Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
- Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum – (United States): Faculty Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Yeshiva University
- Luciana Minassian – (Argentina): Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Buenos Aires
- Elisabeth Driscoll – (United Kingdom): UK Bureau Chief, JURIST
- Ellen van Thiel – (United States): Senior legal adviser – human rights
- Gloria Cano – (Peru): Director, APRODEH (Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos)
- Staša Zajović – (Serbia): Co-Founder & Coordinator, Women in Black
- Sara Chandler KC (Hon) – (United Kingdom): Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (FBE); Former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, Law Society of England & Wales
- Michaela Streibelt – (Germany): Lawyer
- Rev. Susan Lee – (United States): Former President, US Women’s Caucus
- Francisca Pou Giménez – (Mexico): Professor of Constitutional Law, UNAM
- Aoife O’Donoghue – (United Kingdom): QUB Academic Director, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
- Tamta Mikeladze – (Georgia): Director, Social Justice Center; Associate Professor, Ilia State University
- Iulia Kharashvili – (Georgia): Chairperson of the IDP Women Association ‘Consent’
- Niamh Harnett – (Ireland): Barrister At Law, The Bar of Ireland
- Tamar Dekanosidze – (Georgia): Eurasia Regional Representative, Equality Now
- Loveday C. Hodson – (United Kingdom): Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Leicester
- Sandra L. Babcock – (United States): Faculty Director, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide; Co-Founder, Center on Gender and Extreme Sentencing
- Blaine Bookey – (United States): Legal Director, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- Heather Daley – (Canada): Arts Consultant
- Carole Rubin – (Canada): Former Artistic Director and Coordinator
- Allison Gill – (United States): Legal Director, Global Labor Justice
- Joanna Dingwall – (United Kingdom/Germany): Visiting Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow
- Lauren Dempster – (United Kingdom): Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
- Liselott Blixt – (Denmark): Former Member of Parliament
- Kate Engel – (Australia): Graduate Researcher, Deakin University
- Eva Durán Ramos – (Spain): Former Member of Parliament
- Pauline Kerkour el Miad – (France): Legal expert
- Darcia Senft – (Canada): Former General Counsel and Director of Policy & Ethics at the Law Society of Manitoba
- Marta Achler – (Italy): International Human Rights Lawyer
- María Elena Elverdín – (Argentina): Honorary President, International Federation of Women in Legal Careers
- Hilary Burrage – (United Kingdom): Sociologist and Writer
- Pascale Mesnil – (France): President, European Union of Women
- Sheila Paylan – (Armenia/Canada): Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant with the United Nations
- Elisabeth Rabesandratana – (France): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Maria Neus Torbisco-Casals – (Switzerland): Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Melanie O’Brien – (Australia): Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
- Victoria Sanford – (United States): Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI)
- Marie Fox – (United Kingdom): Queen Victoria Chair of Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
- ElsaMarie Dsilva – (India): Founder and President, Red Dot Foundation Global
- Claire Mahon – (New Zealand): Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group
- Elise Groulx Diggs – (Canada): International Human Rights lawyer and mediator; Founder and Honorary President of the International Criminal Bar for the International Criminal Court
- Natasha Lindstaedt – (United Kingdom): Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex
- Susana SáCouto – (United States): Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law
- Sarah Annes Brown – (United Kingdom): Professor, Anglia Ruskin University
- Rebecca A. Shoot – (United States): Co-Convener, Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court
- Samantha Knights KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister
- Dara Foynes – (Ireland): Barrister
- Agata Fijalkowski – (United Kingdom): Reader in Law, Leeds Beckett University
- Emilie Palamy Pradichit – (Thailand): Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation
- Claudia Mihaela Banu – (Romania): Former Senator
- Martha Bradley – (South Africa): Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law, University of Johannesburg
- Janina Dill – (United Kingdom): Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC)
- Sarah Merrill – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Cathy Brennan – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Amy McNeese-Mechan – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Mandie Shilton Godwin – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Helen Cunningham – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Anne Hutton – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Jane Byrne – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Jane Leicester – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Angela Conder – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Hazel Pearson – (United Kingdom): University Lecturer
- Christy Fujio – (United States): Executive Director, Synergy for Justice
- Yael Danieli – (United States): Clinical Psychologist & Trauma Expert
- Giulia Centonze – (Belgium): Human Rights Expert
- Sophie Hale – (Belgium): Human Rights Officer, European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI)
- Hiba Abdulwahhab – (United States): Executive Director, Middle Eastern Women’s Organization
- Ronahi Hasan – (United Kingdom): Award-Winning Journalist
- Iliana Balabanova – (Bulgaria): President, Bulgarian Women’s Lobby
- Mari-Ann Kelam – (Estonia): Former Member of Parliament
- Nancy Awad – (France): Human Rights Lawyer
- Martha Mattos-Coelho – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Martina Feilzer – (United Kingdom): University Professor
- Alice Benhamou Panetta – (France): President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF)
- Tricia Austin – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Joanne Bennett – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Elin Hywel – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Sarah Bogle – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Susan Elsmore – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Adele Barnett-Ward – (United Kingdom): Councillor
- Anthea McIntyre – (United Kingdom): Former Member of the European Parliament
- Margarita S.Ilieva – (Bulgaria): International equalities and human rights lawyer
- Linda MacDonald – (Canada): Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST)
- Gabriella Catalini – (Italy): Adjunct professor, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna
- Noanne Tenneson – (France): General Director, Alliance of Lawyers for Human Rights
- Claudia De La Hoz – (France/Colombia): Professor of Classical Literature, Lyon
- Catherine Ruph – (France): Professor of Classical Literature, Lyon
- Clara Bailly – (France): Head Costume Designer, Paris
- Elise Mosca – (France): Artist
- Marie Beltrami – (France): Artist
- Magali Aumignon – (France): Painter
- Sophie-Elena Jaquenod – (Switzerland): Public speaker
- Nicole Mathieu – (France): Senior Research Director, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- Natacha Markarian – (France): Artist
- Valérie Perez – (France): Writer, Destins de femmes 2021, Winner of the Edgar Faure Literary Prize
- Pamela Perraud – (United States): President, US Women’s Caucus
- Behjat Dehghan – (United States): President, WomenNC-NC Committee for CSW/CEDAW
- Tanya Serisier – (United Kingdom): Professor in Feminist Theory, Birkbeck University of London
- Soizic le Guiff – (France): Psycho-sociologist; Co-Director, Pilot Center for Biocentric Education, Nantes
- Lisa Michalik – (France): Artist
- Olivia Loiseau – (France): Artist, Actress, Dancer, Fashion Designer, Singer
- Françoise Sème Wallon – (France): National Secretary of the European Union of Women, French Section
- Ranjana Kumari – (India): Director, Centre for Social Research (CSR)
- Alannah Travers – (United Kingdom/Germany): Former Iraq researcher
- Anna Bryson – (United Kingdom): Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
- Sirra Ndow – (The Gambia): Human Rights Advocate
- Audrey Matéo – (France): Legal Counsel
- Feride Rushiti – (Kosovo): Executive Director, Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims
- Eleonora Esposito – (Spain): Researcher, University of Navarra
- Jessica Finelle – (France): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Mae Thompson – (United States): Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights
- Clémence Witt – (France): International Criminal Lawyer
- Andreea Rusu – (Romania): Executive Director, FILIA Center
- Debórah Dwork – (United States): Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY)
- Edie Hofmeister – (United States): Chair of the Business and Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) (2023-2025)
- Tali Nates – (South Africa): Recipient of the 2023 US Secretary of State Religious Freedom Award
- Ellen J. Kennedy – (United States): Executive Director, World Without Genocide
- Amy Strecker – (Ireland): Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
- Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann – (Canada): Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016), Wilfrid Laurier University
- Valerie Sperling – (United States): Professor of Political Science, Clark University
- Marion Kaplan – (United States): Professor Emerita, New York University
- Cindy Ayoma Rosa – (Portugal): Childhood trauma coach
- Alice Seuma Vidal – (France): Pharmacist
- Atina Grossmann – (United States): Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York City
- Susan Benesch – (United States): Executive Director, Dangerous Speech Project; Faculty Associate, Harvard University
- Luz E. Nagle – (United States): Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law
- Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom – (Canada): Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia
- Elizabeth Wood – (United States): Ford International Professor of History, MIT
- Rochelle G. Ruthchild – (United States): Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
- Wendy Lower – (United States): Director, Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, Claremont CA
- Catherine Martinez-Briand – (France): Writer
- Cherifa Kheddar – (Algeria): President, Djazairouna Association of Families of Victims of Islamist Terrorism
- Pragna Patel – (United Kingdom): Co-Director, Project Resist
- Martine Brasseur – (France): Emeritus Professor at Paris Cité University
- Rosie Lewis – (United Kingdom): Co-Director, Project Resist
- Nicola Barker – (United Kingdom): Professor of Law, University of Liverpool
- Eléa Nora – (France): Feminist activist
- Patrycja Grzebyk – (Poland): Associate Professor, University of Warsaw
- Izabela Konopacka – (Poland): Past President, European Bars Federation (FBE); President of the FBE Intellectual Property Law Commission
- Artemis Westenberg – (The Netherlands): President, Netherlands Association for Women’s Rights, Female Labour and Equal Citizenship
- Sylvie Rollet – (France): Emeritus Professor, University of Poitiers
- Anne-Sophie Besse – (France): Researcher, University of Strasbourg
- Tess White – (United Kingdom): Member of the Scottish Parliament
- Odile Rohmer – (France): Professor of Social Psychology, University of Strasbourg
- Brigitte Grosgogeat – (France): Professor, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
- Siri Gloppen – (Norway): Director, Centre on Law and Social Transformation, University of Bergen
- Eve Zucker – (United States): Lecturer, Yale University
- Janet Johnson – (United States): Professor, Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY
- Hélène Ollivier – (France): Researcher, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- Karine Doré – (France): Artist
- Sylvie Jestin – (France): Teacher
- Sana Jahangir – (Pakistan): Psychologist
- Susannah Sjöberg – (Sweden): Secretary General, Swedish Women’s Lobby
- Maire Charlotte Blandiot-Faride – (France): Mayor of Mitry-Mory
- Colette Borelli – (France): Author
- Caroline Bennett – (New Zealand): Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, Sussex University
- Bernardita Núñez – (Sweden): Secretary General, Terrafem
- Annelie Kraft – (Sweden): Chair, Swedish Women’s Left Alliance (SKV)
- Susanna Udvardi – (Sweden): Founder, Act For Integration
- Gunnel Hall – (Sweden): Chair, KvinnorKan
- Camilla Wagner – (Sweden): Chair, Fredrika Bremer Association
- Sanna Wolk – (Sweden): President, UN Association of Sweden
- Sirine Sehil – (France): Feminist activist
- Claire Chatelain – (France): Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- Talent Jumo – (Zimbabwe): Director, Katswe Sistahood
- Mahin Alipour – (Sweden): Chair, Committee for the Defence of Women in Iran (KFKI)
- Stéphanie Talbot – (France): Founder, Talitha Koumi Ministry
- Alix Sordet – (France): Illustrator
- Marie-Annick Barthe – (France): President, Collective of Social Democrats Reformers (CSDR)
- Celine Dumas – (France): Artist, author, singer
- Martine Kleinberg – (Luxembourg): President, Jewish Call for Peace
- Susanne Hendrika Floelo – (Norway): Senior Adviser, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR)
- Fabienne Brugère – (France): Philosopher
- Christiane Perregaux – (Switzerland): University Professor
- Cristina Iurisniti – (Romania): Former Member of Parliament
- Maria Eugenia Barna – (Romania): Former Member of Parliament
- Maria Grecea – (Romania): Former Member of Parliament
- Anda Abiculesi – (Romania): Lawyer
- Iulia Dascalu – (Moldova): Former Member of Parliament
- Valentina Ghetu – (Moldova): Former Member of Parliament
- Dorien Rookmaker – (The Netherlands): Former Member of the European Parliament
- Mina Minaee – (Norway): Anti-racist leader of the Socialist Youth
- Elisa von Joeden-Forgey – (United States): Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
- Tracy M. Lemos – (Canada): Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
- Dominique Day – (United States): Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
- Abbé Jolles – (United States): International Human Rights Litigator
- Alice Hardy – (United Kingdom): Partner at Bindmans
- Charli Carpenter – (United States): Director of Human Security Lab and Professor of International Relations, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Nora Markard – (Germany): Professor of International Public Law and International Human Rights, University of Münster
- Jeanne Sarson – (Canada): Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST)
- Sandra Fredman FBA KC (Hon) – (United Kingdom): Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA, Director of the Oxford Human Hub, Oxford University
- Avril Alba – (Australia): Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney
- Sarah Magill – (United Kingdom): Managing Director, Free From Fear
- Elisabetta Zamparutti – (Italy): Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain
- Carmen Quintanilla – (Spain): Former Member of Parliament
- Sophie Rohonyi – (Belgium): President of the Independent Federalist Democrat (DéFI) Party
- Gari Duran Vadell – (Spain): Former Senator; Vice President, INCO Human Rights
- Aina Vidal Sáez – (Spain): Member of Parliament
- Alicia Torija – (Spain): Member of the Parliament of Madrid
- Nicola Macbean – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, The Rights Practice
- Astrid Thors – (Finland): Former Minister of Migration and European; Former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Latifa Aït Baala – (Belgium): Member of the Brussels Parliament
- Meyrem Almaci – (Belgium): Member of the Flemish Parliament
- Sanna Marin – (Finland): Former Prime Minister of Finland