Iran HRM joins urgent international appeal to the UN to prevent a new massacre in Iran

Iran Human Rights Monitor joins urgent international appeal to the UN to prevent a new massacre in Iran
23 July 2025 – An influential group of 314 international human rights experts, Nobel laureates, former UN officials, and political leaders has today issued an urgent appeal to the United Nations to take immediate steps to save the lives of political prisoners in Iran and prevent a recurrence of the 1988 mass executions.

Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) is proud to be among the signatories of this joint appeal, initiated by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), in response to a sharp rise in death sentences and open calls in state media for mass killings.

An editorial published on 7 July 2025 in Fars News, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), praised the 1988 execution of over 30,000 political prisoners as a “successful historical experience” and called for similar measures against today’s political detainees.

The global signatories, representing voices from over 60 countries, warn that “the risk of another mass atrocity, reminiscent of the 1988 massacre, is alarmingly real.” They urge UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Dr. Mai Sato, High Commissioner Volker Türk, and UN member states to take a firm stance and condemn these incitements.

The full text of the statement follows below.

International Community Must Act to Prevent a Repeat of Iran’s 1988 Massacre

23 July 2025

We call on the global community to urgently confront the escalating wave of political executions and entrenched impunity in Iran. The risk of another mass atrocity, reminiscent of the 1988 massacre, is alarmingly real.

On 7 July 2025, Fars News—linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)—published an editorial praising the 1988 executions of over 30,000 political prisoners as a ‘successful historical experience’. The editorial, entitled ‘Why the 1988 Executions Should Be Repeated’, openly advocated for similar measures against current detainees, framing political dissent as a threat to national security. This rhetoric reflects a dangerous effort to normalise state-sponsored killings.

On 12 July 2025, three opposition activists—Farshad Etemadi-Far, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi—were sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court after two years of torture, accused of ‘waging war on God’ (moharebeh) over their support for the opposition PMOI (MEK). In July 2025, the Supreme Court rejected a fourth request for judicial review for political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, leaving them at imminent risk on death row. There are currently dozens of political prisoners on death row on similar charges.

Since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office, executions have surged—with over 1,300 carried out, some 650 in 2025 alone.

These incitements and executions echo the horrors of 1988, when a fatwa from then-Supreme Leader Khomeini led to mass executions targeting PMOI members and other dissidents. The July 2024 report from the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran described those extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances as ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.

Warning signs are mounting. On 4 July 2025, ten UN Special Procedures expressed alarm over the crackdown since hostilities began on 13 June 2025 and the subsequent ceasefire, noting that state-media rhetoric, including calls for ‘surveillance’ and ‘killings’, echoes the ‘1988 atrocities’. Political prisoner Saeed Masouri, a key figure in the ‘No To Executions Tuesdays’ campaign, recently smuggled out a letter from Qezel Hesar Prison after an attempt to forcibly transfer him. He warns that his removal is a prelude to executing others on death row and that, just as in 1988, ‘a crime is in progress’.

We must not repeat the silence of 1988.

We urge the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Dr Mai Sato, her colleagues in the Special Procedures, and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) to condemn these incitements and executions. We call on UN High Commissioner Volker Türk to speak out unequivocally against Iran’s systematic human rights violations.

We further call on Canada and other co-sponsors of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee resolution on Iran to include an explicit reference to the 1988 massacre in this year’s resolution.

The international community failed to act in 1988. It must not fail again. The responsibility to prevent these crimes against humanity from being repeated rests with the United Nations and its member states.

SIGNED:

1. Lord Alton of Liverpool – (United Kingdom): Chair, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights
2. Amb. Joachim Rücker – (Germany): President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015)
3. Dr. Mark Ellis – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA)
4. Amb. Stephen J. Rapp – (United States): US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015); Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) (2007-2009)
5. Oleksandra Matviichuk – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Head of Center for Civil Liberties (CCL)
6. Prof. Claudio Grossman – (Chile): Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC); Former Chair, UN Committee against Torture (CAT)
7. Prof. Robert K. Goldman – (United States): UN Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism (2004-2005)
8. Judge Wolfgang Schomburg – (Germany): Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2008); Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (2003-2008); Judge, Federal Supreme Court of Germany (1995–2000)
9. Jody Williams – (United States): 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
10. Prof. Chris D. Sidoti – (Australia): Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000)
11. Dr. Irmgard Griss – (Austria): President of the Supreme Court of Austria (2007-2011)
12. Prof. Stefan Trechsel – (Switzerland): President of the European Commission of Human Rights (1995–1999)
13. Maud De Boer-Buquicchio – (The Netherlands): UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (2014-2020); former Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
14. Anne Ramberg – (Sweden): Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
15. Dr. Rowan Williams – (United Kingdom): Former Archbishop of Canterbury
16. Prof. Giorgio Malinverni – (Switzerland): Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights
17. Doris Leuthard Hausin – (Switzerland): President of Switzerland (2010 and 2017)
18. Prof. José Luís da Cruz Vilaça – (Portugal): 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)
19. Kumi Naidoo – (South Africa): Secretary General, Amnesty International (2018-2020)
20. Prof. Juan E. Méndez – (Argentina): UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010-2016); Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2004-2007)
21. Prof. Leila Nadya Sadat – (United States): Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023)
22. Morten Kjaerum – (Denmark): 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)
23. Barbara Lochbihler – (Germany): Former Member of the European Parliament
24. Geoffrey Robertson AO KC – (Australia): First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
25. Geir H. Haarde – (Iceland): Prime Minister of Iceland (2006-2009)
26. Justice Florence N.M. Mumba – (Zambia): International Judge, Supreme Court Chamber, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Retired Judge, Supreme Court, Zambia
27. Prof. the Hon. Gareth Evans AC KC – (Australia): Former Foreign Minister of Australia
28. Prof. Rui Manuel Gens Moura Ramos – (Portugal): President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2007-2012)
29. Sonja Biserko – (Serbia): Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014)
30. Hiljmnijeta Apuk – (Kosovo): Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013
31. Prof. Giovanni Grasso – (Italy): Former International Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
32. Prof. Helen Keller – (Switzerland): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (2011-2020)
33. Prof. Josef Azizi – (Austria): Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013)
34. Prof. Franklin Dehousse – (Belgium): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2003-2016)
35. Klaus U. Rackwitz – (Germany): Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy
36. Stanislav Pavlovschi – (Moldova): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2001-2008)
37. Anand Grover – (India): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014)
38. Dainius Pūras – (Lithuania): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2014-2020); Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council (2018-2019)
39. Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana – (Uganda): UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2018-2024)
40. Alda M. Facio – (Costa Rica): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (2014-2020)
41. Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría – (Costa Rica): Second Vice-President of Costa Rica (2014-2018)
42. Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević – (Montenegro): Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council (2013-2018)
43. Sir Richard J. Roberts – (United Kingdom): 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
44. Elfriede Jelinek – (Austria): 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature
45. Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage – (France): 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
46. Amb. Ken Blackwell – (United States): Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights
47. The Hon. Tony Clement PC – (Canada): Former Canadian Minister of Industry, Minister of Health and President of the Treasury Board
48. Prof. Roger S. Clark – (New Zealand): Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1987-1990)
49. Prof. 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
50. Prof. Rebecca Cook – (Canada): Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
51. Prof. Brice Dickson – (United Kingdom): Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005)
52. Prof. Nicholas Grief – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent
53. Amos Waldman – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers
54. Marion Böker – (Germany): Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues
55. Dominique Attias – (France): Former President, European Bars Federation (FBE)
56. Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy – (United States): Executive Director, World Without Genocide
57. Prof. Errol P. Mendes – (Canada): President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section
58. David Russell – (United Kingdom): UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF)
59. Prof. Predrag Dojčinović – (United States): War Crimes expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2017)
60. Prof. Jerry P. White – (Canada): Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University
61. Prof. Steven Leonard Jacobs – (United States): Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama
62. Elisabeth Rabesandratana – (France): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
63. Thom Dyke – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Deka Chambers
64. Eleonora Mongelli – (Italy): Vice President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)
65. Malcolm Fowler – (United Kingdom): Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, member of JVMI
66. Achille Campagna – (San Marino): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
67. Arbana Xharra – (Kosovo): Recipient of US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award 2015
68. Anila Ali – (United States): President and CEO, American Muslim and Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council
69. Dr. Anja Matwijkiw – (United States): Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest
70. Tomas Manguel – (Argentina): Professor of International Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires
71. Jonathan Arkush – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Enterprise Chambers
72. Paulo Casaca – (Portugal): Executive Director, South Asia Democratic Forum
73. Prof. Paul H. Robinson – (United States): Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
74. Joan Francesca Quint – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers
75. Filippo Cesaris – (Italy): Lawyer
76. Nick Brown – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
77. Greg Boos – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
78. Sharron Davies MBE – (United Kingdom): Swimmer, Olympic medalist
79. Dr. Melanie O’Brien – (Australia): President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
80. Prof. 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)
81. Jane E. Durgom-Powers – (United States): CEO & Founder, Families of the Missing (FOM)
82. Denis Jivaga – (Kazakhstan): Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)
83. Prof. Ray Murphy – (Ireland): Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway
84. Prof. Eric Heinze – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London
85. Prof. Aurora Ciucă – (Romania): President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association; Faculty of Law and Public Administration, University “Ștefan cel Mare”
86. Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate – (Togo): Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH)
87. Dr. Mireille Rebeiz – (United States): Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College
88. Dr. Denakpon L. Tchobo – (United States): Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
89. Prof. Hilary Earl – (Canada): Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University
90. Hon. Dr. Jocelynne A. Scutt – (United Kingdom / Australia): Former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania, and former judge on the High Court of Fiji
91. Prof. Pierre Sané – (Senegal): Secretary General, Amnesty International (1992-2001)
92. Prof. Jeremy Sarkin – (South Africa): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2008-2014)
93. Melinda Taylor – (Australia): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court
94. Bob Blackman MP – (United Kingdom): Member of Parliament
95. Prof. Antonietta Elia – (Italy): International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe
96. Miriam Ekiudoko – (Hungary): Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2021-present)
97. Prof. Kevin Jon Heller – (United States): Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen
98. Prof. David M. Crane – (United States): Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
99. Prof. François Crépeau – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017)
100. Prof. Urmila Bhoola – (South Africa): UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (2014-2020)
101. Prof. Barry C. Barish – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics
102. Prof. Sheldon Glashow – (United States): 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics
103. Prof. Joachim Frank – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
104. Toby Cadman – (United Kingdom): Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers
105. Prof. Ricardo A. Sunga III – (Philippines): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2014-2021)
106. Prof. Fernand de Varennes – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-2023)
107. Marek Antoni Nowicki – (Poland): Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo
108. Prof. Vilenas Vadapalas – (Lithuania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013)
109. Dr. Frank Chalk – (Canada): President, the Association of Genocide Scholars (1999-2001)
110. Dr. William H. Wiley – (Canada): Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)
111. Saeed Mokbil – (Yemen): Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries
112. Prof. Robert J. Currie KC – (Canada): Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
113. Antonio Stango – (Italy): President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)
114. Prof. Juan Carlos Manriquez – (Chile): Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Proceedings and International Criminal Law
115. Prof. James Silk – (United States): Professor Emeritus of Human Rights, Yale Law School
116. Dr. Eyal Mayroz – (Australia): Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
117. Christina Blacklaws – (United Kingdom): President of the Law Society of England and Wales (2018-2019)
118. Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips – (United Kingdom & Nigeria): Barrister, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers
119. Prof. Steven M. Schneebaum – (United States): Adjunct Professor of International Law, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
120. Sergio D’Elia – (Italy): Secretary General, Hands Off Cain
121. Elisabetta Zamparutti – (Italy): Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain; former Member of Parliament
122. Dr. Susan Bazilli – (Canada): Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus (2024-present)
123. Amb. Dr. Alma Lama – (Kosovo): Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino
124. Sètondji Roland Adjovi – (Benin): Member, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2014-2020)
125. Rebecca A. Shoot – (United States): Co-Convener, Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court
126. Prof. Siobhan Wills – (Northern Ireland): Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University; Professor of Law, School of Law, Ulster University
127. Erkki Tuomioja – (Finland): Foreign Minister of Finland (2000-2007, 2011-2015); President of the Nordic Council (2008)
128. Senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam – (France): Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
129. Soledad Villagra de Biedermann – (Paraguay): Former Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
130. Prof. Baden Offord AO – (Australia): Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University
131. Tracy Edwards MBE – (United Kingdom): Founder, The Maiden Factor
132. Prof. Miloon Kothari – (India): UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing (2000-2008)
133. Omar Soliman – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Guernica 37 Chambers
134. Prof. Michel Mayor – (Switzerland): 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics
135. Prof. Caroline Bennett – (New Zealand): Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, Sussex University
136. Prof. David J. Simon – (United States): Director, Yale University Genocide Studies Program
137. Prof. Alexander Motyl – (United States): Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
138. Clare M.Lopez – (United States): President, Lopez Liberty LLC
139. Prof. Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann – (Canada): Professor Emerita, Wilfrid Laurier University; Member of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights (2003-2016)
140. Prof. Alexander Alvarez – (United States): Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University
141. Tahar Boumedra – (United Kingdom): President, Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI); former Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office and Representative of the HCHR in Iraq
142. Kate Mackintosh – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law
143. Dr. Juan E. Garcés – (Spain): Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende
144. Prof. David E. Guinn – (United States): Public Service Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany – State University of New York
145. Amb. Filloreta Kodra – (Albania): Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva
146. Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart – (Germany): Former Judge of the Constitutional Court State of Saxony
147. Amb. Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez – (Paraguay): Foreign Minister of Paraguay (2000-2001)
148. Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter – (Germany): Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne
149. Prof. Takaaki Kajita – (Japan): 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics
150. Lord Hendy KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister; Member of the UK House of Lords
151. Prof. Valeriu M. Ciucă – (Romania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010)
152. David Matas – (Canada): Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China
153. Maria Dmytrieva – (Ukraine): Democracy Development Center
154. Erwin Heller – (Germany): Lawyer, Writer, Artist
155. Prof. Frank Höpfel – (Austria): Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2005-2008)
156. Dr. John C. Mather – (United States): 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics
157. Avdullah Hoti – (Kosovo): Prime Minister of Kosovo (2020-2021)
158. Mirek Topolánek – (Czech Republic): Prime Minister of Czech Republic (2006-2009)
159. Tonio Borg – (Malta): Deputy Prime Minister of Malta (2004-2012); Foreign Minister of Malta (2008-2012)
160. Jan-Erik Enestam – (Finland): Secretary-General of the Nordic Council (2007-2013); Minister of Defence of Finland (1999-2003)
161. Judy Sgro – (Canada): Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada (2003-2005)
162. Candice Bergen – (Canada): Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada (2022)
163. Anatol Șalaru – (Moldova): Minister of Defence of Moldova (2015-2016)
164. Prof. Alex Neve – (Canada): Former Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
165. Ms Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh – (Bangladesh): Human Rights Defender
166. Edwin Glasgow CBE KC – (United Kingdom): President, International Tribunal of the FIA (2011-2020)
167. Ahmet Cemil Yildirim – (Kuwait): Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Gulf University for Science and Technology
168. Prof. Natasha Lindstaedt – (United Kingdom): Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex
169. Dr. Yevgeniy Zhovtis – (Kazakhstan): Chief Expert-Consultant, Member of the Board, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)
170. Dr. James Mehigan – (Ireland / United States): Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury; Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
171. Thomas F. Creed – (Ireland): Senior Counsel
172. Donna Robinson Divine – (United States): Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College
173. François Audet – (Canada): Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies (IEIM)
174. Dr. Kerry Whigham – (United States): Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University
175. Prof. David Palumbo-Liu – (United States): Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
176. Anabela Atanásio Alves – (Portugal): Senior International Criminal Lawyer
177. Prof. John Packer – (Canada): Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), University of Ottawa
178. Prof. Jennifer Wright Knust – (United Kingdom): Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
179. Sandra M. Coyle – (United States): Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP)
180. Houria Esslami – (Morocco): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2014-2020)
181. Prof. Timothy Patrick McCarthy – (United States): Lecturer on Education, Harvard University
182. Andreas Bummel – (Germany): Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders
183. Prof. Gerhard Kemp – (United Kingdom / South Africa): Professor of Criminal Law, University of the West of England (UWE)
184. Prof. Tozun Bahcheli – (Canada): Emeritus Professor of Political Science, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario
185. Dr. György Tatár – (Hungary): Director, Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention (BCMAP)
186. Prof. Rory O’Connell – (United Kingdom): Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Ulster University
187. Kurt Kerns – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court
188. Orry Van de Wauwer – (Belgium): Director, Pax Christi Flanders; Member of the Senate of Belgium (2019-2024); Member of the Flemish Parliament (2017-2024)
189. Philippe Nantermod – (Switzerland): Member of the National Council of Switzerland
190. Prof. Eyal Benvenisti – (Israel): Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law and Former Director of the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, University of Cambridge
191. Prof. Kermit Roosevelt – (United States): Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
192. Dr. Jeffrey Bachman – (United States): Associate Professor, American University School of International Service
193. Prof. Elaine Arnull – (United Kingdom): Associate Dean, Director of the National Hub for Social Innovation and Technology and Professor, University of Wolverhampton
194. Dr. Peter Koenig – (United States): Attorney, Squire Patton Boggs
195. Andrew Hall KC – (United Kingdom): Former Chair of the Criminal Bar of England and Wales
196. Prof. Michael A. Newton – (United States): Professor of the Practice of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; Senior Adviser to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the US State Department (1999-2002)
197. Prof. Stephen J Toope – (Canada): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2002-2008)
198. Mae Thompson – (United States): Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights
199. Prof. Martin Flaherty – (United States / Ireland): Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
200. Prof. Barend van Leeuwen – (Netherlands): Professor of European Union Law, Durham Law School
201. Thomas E. Garrett – (United States): Secretary General of Community of Democracies (CoD) (2017-2024)
202. Alastair Logan OBE, LL.B – (United Kingdom): Chair, Solicitors International Human Rights Group; Council Member of The Law Society of England and Wales
203. Struan Stevenson – (United Kingdom): Former Member of the European Parliament; President of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-2014)
204. Samantha Knights KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister
205. Tom Allen – (United Kingdom): Barrister
206. James Goudie KC – (United Kingdom): Former Deputy High Court Judge
207. Matteo Pignocchi – (Italy): Lawyer and postdoc researcher
208. Dr. Lia Tsuladze – (Georgia): Executive Director, Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi
209. Nick Bell – (Switzerland): President, lifespark
210. Dr. Alia Brahimi – (United Kingdom): Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
211. Prof. Jocelyn Getgen – (United States): Director, Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic; Faculty Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Yeshiva University
212. Prof. Luciana Minassian – (Argentina): Assistant Professor of International Law and Emiliano Buis Chair, Law School, University of Buenos Aires
213. Michael Pålsson – (Sweden): Attorney-at-law
214. Paulo Saragoça da Matta – (Portugal): Guest Lecturer on Human Rights, Criminal and Criminal Procedure Law; Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
215. Alannah Travers – (United Kingdom/Germany): Conflict, Justice, and Human Rights LLM at SOAS University, formerly Iraq researcher
216. Lady Valerie Corbett – (United Kingdom/Germany): Founder, Lady Val’s Professional Women’s Network
217. Prof. Bill Bowring – (United Kingdom): Member of the Executive of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)
218. Prof. Robert C. Roberts – (United States): Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University
219. Shupikai Gwabuya – (Zimbabwe): Networks & Engagement Coordinator, Vuka! Coalition
220. Mostafa Fouad – (Belgium): Executive Director, HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement
221. Prof. Mary Travis Bassett – (United States): Executive Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
222. Prof. Lucius Caflisch – (Liechtenstein): Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights
223. Dr. Andrew Woolford – (Canada): Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS); Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
224. Rabbi Abraham Cooper – (United States): Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2023-2024)
225. Professor, Sorbonne University – (Iceland): France
226. Dr. Victoria Sanford – (United States): Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI)
227. Prof. John Dugard – (South Africa): UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2001–2008); judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice
228. Prof. Frederik Harhoff – (Denmark): Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2007-2013)
229. Eoin McGonigal – (Ireland): Senior Counsel
230. Gulnara Shahinian – (Armenia): UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences (2008-2014)
231. Prof. Sir Mark Vlasic – (United States): Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2003)
232. Prof. Jan Pronk – (The Netherlands): Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan (2004-2006); Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1985-1986)
233. Sir Gregory P. Winter – (United Kingdom): 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
234. Yasmin Sooka – (South Africa): Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (2016-present); former Commissioner, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
235. Prof. Eric Stover – (United States): Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
236. Dominique Rougeventre – (France): Spokesperson, LE HAVRE Contre la peine de mort
237. Dr. Sigríður Dúna Kristmundsdóttir – (Iceland): Ambassador of Iceland to South Africa (2006-2008); Ambassador of Iceland to Norway (2008-2001); Member of Parliament (1983-1987)
238. David J. Wineland – (United States): 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics
239. Dr. Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot – (Spain): Emeritus Professor of Private international law, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain
240. Astrid Thors – (Finland): Former Minister of Migration and European; Former OSCE High Commissoner on National Minorities
241. Janez Janša – (Slovenia): Prime Minister of Slovenia (2020-2022, 2012-2013, 2004-2008)
242. Dr. Steven McCulloch – (United Kingdom): Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester
243. Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères – (Uruguay): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2021-present)
244. Richard C. Dieter – (United States): Former Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center; Adjunct Professor of Law, Catholic University of America
245. R. Bruce McColm – (United States): President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House
246. Prof. Irwin Cotler – (Canada): Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
247. Prof. Gerard Quinn – (Ireland): UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2020-2023)
248. Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt – (Germany): UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-2016); former Director, German Institute for Human Rights (DIMR)
249. Melissa Parke – (Australia): Member, UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (2017–2021); Former Federal Labor Member for Fremantle; Former Minister for International Development (AusAID)
250. Prof. Gill H. Boehringer – (Australia): Dean (ret.), Macquarie University Law School, Sydney
251. Prof. Timothy J. Christian KC – (Canada): Chief Federal Negotiator of the Government of Canada (1996–2010); Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta (1985-1995)
252. Amb. Hans Corell – (Sweden): Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004)
253. Dr. Stephanie Wolfe – (United States): Professor, Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State University (WSU)
254. Jean Flamme – (Belgium): Member, Defence Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA)
255. Amb. Amanda Ellis – (New Zealand): Ambassador and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations in Geneva (2013-2016)
256. Dr. Felicity Gerry KC – (United Kingdom): International barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London
257. Christian Roth – (France): Lawyer; Founder and Honorary President, European Lawyers’ Union (Union des Avocats Européens – UAE)
258. Param Cumaraswamy – (Malaysia): Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (1994-2003)
259. Rupert Skilbeck – (United Kingdom): Director, REDRESS
260. Emilie Palamy Pradichit – (Thailand): Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation
261. Patrick Baudouin – (France): Honorary President, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH); Honorary President, Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH)
262. Gilbert Mitterrand – (France): President, France Libertés – Fondation Danielle Mitterrand
263. Dr. Rahib Salih – (Switzerland): Director, Al-Rafidain International Center for Justice and Human Rights – Geneva
264. Prof. Maria Neus Torbisco-Casals – (Switzerland): Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute
265. Dr. Katerina Hatzikidi – (United Kingdom): Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany)
266. Prof. Tom Shakespeare – (United Kingdom): Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
267. Prof. Terry Coonan – (United States): Executive Director, Florida State University Center for the Advancement of Human Rights
268. António Carmona Rodrigues – (Portugal): Mayor of Lisbon (2005-2007)
269. Pierre Bercis – (France): President, Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH)
270. Prof. Jean Ziegler – (Switzerland): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008); former Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
271. Hon. Michael Kirby – (Australia): Former Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea (DPRK); UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-1996); former Justice of the High Court of Australia
272. Prof. Kip S. Thorne – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics
273. Vania Costa Ramos – (Portugal): Chair, European Criminal Bar Association
274. Audronius Ažubalis – (Lithuania): Foreign Minister of Lithuania (2010-2012)
275. Alice Benhamou Panetta – (France): President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF); Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur
276. Alexis Anagnostakis – (Greece): Barrister, ECBA Human Rights Officer
277. Ellen Samyn – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
278. Daniele Vecchi – (Italy): Partner, Gianni & Origoni
279. James Joseph – (United Kingdom): Director, The Duty Legacy
280. Gari Duran Vadell – (Spain): Former Senator; Vice President, INCO Human Rights
281. Gwendolyn Albert – (Czech Republic): Human rights activist
282. Ingrid Betancourt – (Colombia): Former Senator and Presidential candidate
283. Maria Elena Elverdin – (Argentina): Honorary President of FIFCJ (Federation Internationale des Femmes des Carrieres Juridiques)
284. Ana Paula Barros – (Portugal): Lawyer; former Member of Parliament
285. Dr. Paulo Ilich Bacca – (Colombia): Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia)
286. Rev. Susan Lee – (United States): Former President, US Women’s Caucus; Former Master Lecturer in Social Sciences, Boston University
287. Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) – (United Kingdom)
288. Iran Human Rights Monitor (IranHRM) – (Sweden)
289. CIVICUS – (South Africa)
290. German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP) – (Germany)
291. Italian Federation for Human Rights – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (FIDU) – (Italy)
292. Hands Off Cain – (Italy)
293. Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY) – (United States)
294. Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE) – (United States)
295. Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms – (Tunisia)
296. Ligue Marocaine de la citoyenneté et des droits de l’homme (LMCDH) – (Morocco)
297. Skyline International for Human Rights (SIHR) – (Sweden)
298. LE HAVRE Contre la peine de mort – (France)
299. Buenos Aires Chapter of the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) – (Argentina)
300. Manushya Foundation – (Thailand)
301. Le Comité de soutien aux droits de l’homme en Iran (CSDHI) – (France)
302. Women’s Human Rights International Association (WHRIA) – (France)
303. L’chaim: Jews Against the Death Penalty – (United States)
304. Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) – (Kazakhstan)
305. NGO Little People of Kosova – (Kosovo)
306. West African Human Rights Defenders Network / Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains (WAHRDN/ROADDH) – (Togo)
307. World Without Genocide – (United States)
308. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia – (Serbia)
309. Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) – (United States)
310. Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH) – (France)
311. Vivent Les Femmes (VLF) – (France)
312. The Duty Legacy – (United Kingdom)
313. The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes – (United Kingdom)
314. International Council of Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy (INCO Human Rights) – (Spain)

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