Update – May 25, 2025
A coalition of 514 global figures and NGOs have now signed the urgent appeal, calling on the United Nations to intervene to halt the imminent executions of political prisoners in Iran. The expanded list of signatories underscores growing international concern over Tehran’s escalating campaign of politically motivated executions.
May 2, 2025– In a collective appeal, Iran HRM joins 309 international figures — including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former diplomats, legal professionals, NGOs, and human rights organizations — to call on the United Nations to take immediate action to prevent a new wave of politically motivated executions in Iran. The signatories strongly condemned the Iranian regime’s intensified campaign targeting political prisoners and urged urgent UN intervention to halt the state-sanctioned killings.
The following is the full text of the statement:
Execution Spree in Iran and Confirmation of Death Sentences for Activists Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
We, the undersigned international experts and NGOs, unequivocally condemn the Iranian authorities’ escalating campaign of politically motivated executions. These acts represent a grave assault on human rights and a deliberate strategy to suppress dissent.
Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, are in imminent danger after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences and turned down their request for judicial review. Their charges include “membership in the PMOI/MEK”, “propaganda” in support of the organisation, “preparing and sending videos to the organisation”, all of which are defined in the regime’s legal system as “enmity against God,” and “corruption on earth.” Their kangaroo trial on 10 August 2024, lasting just five minutes, was a travesty of justice: they were denied legal counsel for nearly two years, tortured, and silenced during proceedings. Allegations of torture—including beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, and threats against their families—were ignored.
We demand an immediate halt to their execution. The international community must not remain silent.
Dozens of political prisoners, including Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani Amerian, Pakhshan Azizi, Verisheh Moradi, and Sharifeh Mohammadi, face imminent execution following grossly unfair trials. Several have been forcibly transferred to Qezel Hesar Prison, a notorious execution site. Since President Masoud Pezeshkian assumed office in August 2024, over 1,000 executions have been carried out, targeting women, juvenile offenders, ethnic and religious minorities, and dissidents in a calculated effort to prevent a renewed uprising and crush demands for democratic change.
The Iranian authorities’ systematic targeting of political prisoners is rooted in a culture of impunity, fuelled by the failure to hold perpetrators accountable for past atrocities. This was documented in the July 2024 landmark Atrocity Crimes report by UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Prof. Javaid Rehman, which found that the 1981-82 mass killings and the 1988 massacre constituted crimes against humanity and genocide. No Iranian official has been held accountable for these atrocities; instead, the perpetrators have been promoted to the highest levels in the government, judiciary, and security apparatus.
Iran’s crackdown on political prisoners flagrantly violates international human rights law, including the rights to a fair trial and freedom from torture. The courage of prisoners like Ehsani and Hassani, reflected in their participation in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strikes, staged in more than 40 prisons in Iran every week since January 2024, underscores their defiance against such brutality.
We stand in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners and their families and are committed to amplifying their voices until justice is achieved.
We welcome the European Parliament’s 3 April 2025 resolution, condemning the death sentences for Ehsani and Hassani, and the UN Special Rapporteur’s 6 February 2025 letter to the Iranian authorities, warning against the violation of their rights.
We urgently call upon the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, all relevant UN Special Procedures, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI), and all democratic governments to intervene to halt these executions.
We encourage the international community to identify and sanction Iranian officials responsible for human rights violations, and to make the abolition of the death penalty and the release of political prisoners a condition for improving relations with Iran.
Co-Signatory NGOs
SIGNED:
Judge Sang-Hyun Song – (South Korea): President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2009-2015)
Navi Pillay – (South Africa): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014)
Amb. Joachim Rücker – (Germany): President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015); Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN in Geneva (2014-2016)
Lord Alton of Liverpool – (United Kingdom): Chair, UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR); Member of the House of Lords
Dr. Mark Ellis – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, International Bar Association (IBA); former Chair of the UN Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
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
Mounir Satouri MEP – (France): Chair, European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights
Dr. Christoph Heusgen – (Germany): Former President of the UN Security Council; Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) (2022-2025); Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations (2017-2021)
Prof. William A. Schabas – (Canada): Chair of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict (2014-2015); President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011); Professor of international law at Middlesex University in London
Oleksandra Matviichuk – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jody Williams – (United States): 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
President Oscar Arias Sánchez – (Costa Rica): Former President of Costa Rica; 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Dr. Karen Smith – (South Africa): United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (2019-2021)
Cherie Blair CBE KC – (United Kingdom): Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Anne Ramberg – (Sweden): Ad hoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR); Board Member, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Chair, Board of Uppsala University; Former Secretary General, Swedish Bar Association
Prof. Leila Nadya Sadat – (United States): Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor (2012-2023); Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative; James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law
Barbara Lochbihler – (Germany): Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Prof. Claudio Grossman – (Chile): Member, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (2016-present); Chair, ILC’s Drafting Committee (2019); President, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) (2014-present); President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (1996, 2001); Chair, UN Committee against Torture (CAT) (4 terms, from 2008-2015); Chair, UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies (2013); Professor of Law & Dean Emeritus, R. Geraldson Scholar for International and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law
Prof. Helen Keller – (Switzerland): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (2011-2020); Chair, Public Law and European and Public International Law, University of Zurich
Prof. Josef Azizi – (Austria): Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2013)
Prof. Valeriu M. Ciucă – (Romania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2007-2010)
Prof. Marc Bossuyt – (Belgium): President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium (2007-2014); Em. Professor, Antwerp University
Dr. Irmgard Griss – (Austria): President of the Supreme Court of Austria (2007-2011); President, Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European Union (2010-2011)
Justice Florence N.M. Mumba – (Zambia): International Judge, Supreme Court Chamber, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC); Former Vice President, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY); Former Appeals Chamber Judge, UNICTY/ICTR; Retired Judge, Supreme Court, Zambia
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)
Prof. 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)
Geoffrey Robertson AO KC – (Australia): First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); Founder and Head, Doughty Street Chambers
Prof. Giovanni Grasso – (Italy): Former International Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; former Judge of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Judge Flavia Lattanzi – (Italy): Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (2003-2007); Ad Litem Judge, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2007-2016)
Stanislav Pavlovschi – (Moldova): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (2001-2008); Minister of Justice of Moldova (2019)
Sir David Edward KCMG KC – (United Kingdom): Judge, European Court of Justice (1992-2004); Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Georg Ress – (Germany): Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (1998-2004)
Prof. Franklin Dehousse – (Belgium): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2003-2016)
Prof. Vilenas Vadapalas – (Lithuania): Judge, General Court of the European Union (2004-2013)
Dato’ Shyamala Alagendra – (Malaysia): International Criminal Lawyer; Gender and Child Rights Expert
Kate Mackintosh – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Promise Institute Europe, UCLA School of Law; Deputy Registrar, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2012-2017)
Prof. Rui Manuel Moura Ramos – (Portugal): President of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2007-2012); Judge, General Court of the European Union (1995-2003)
Amb. Beth Van Schaack – (United States): US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2022-2025)
Bernard Kouchner – (France): Foreign Minister of France (2007-2010)
Amb. Hans Corell – (Sweden): Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004)
Dr. Rowan Williams – (United Kingdom): Former Archbishop of Canterbury; former Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Bianca Jagger – (Nicaragua): Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador for the Abolition of the Death Penalty; President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (BJHRF)
Prof. Pierre Sané – (Senegal): Secretary General, Amnesty International (1992-2001)
Prof. Diane Orentlicher – (United States): UN Independent Expert on Combating Impunity (2003-2004); Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (WCL)
Prof. Frederik Harhoff – (Denmark): Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2007-2013)
Martina Navratilova – (Czech Republic/United States): Former world No. 1 women’s tennis player
Kim McGinnis Russell – (United States): Advocate for women & girls
Helena Carreiras – (Portugal): Minister of National Defence of Portugal (2022-2024)
Yoko Hayashi – (Japan): Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (2015-2016)
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)
Prof. Robert K. Goldman – (United States): UN Independent Expert on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism (2004-2005); President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
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)
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)
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); former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States
Prof. Manfred Nowak – (Austria): Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice/Italy; Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004-2010); Former member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID); Former Judge, Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kumi Naidoo – (South Africa): Secretary General, Amnesty International (2018-2020)
Elbegdorj Tsakhia – (Mongolia): President of Mongolia (2009-2017); Prime Minister of Mongolia (2004-2006 and 1998)
Prof. the Hon. Gareth Evans AC KC – (Australia): Former Foreign Minister of Australia; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group
Charles Flanagan – (Ireland): Foreign Minister of Ireland (2014-2017); Justice Minister of Ireland (2017-2020)
Marko Mihkelson – (Estonia): Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament
Prof. Chris D. Sidoti – (Australia): Australian Human Rights Commissioner (1995-2000); Australian Law Reform Commissioner (1992-1995)
Prof. Christian Tomuschat – (Germany): President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (2013-2019); Member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1977-1986); Member and Chairman of the UN International Law Commission (1985-1996); Emeritus Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin
Erkki Tuomioja – (Finland): Foreign Minister of Finland (2000-2007, 2011-2015); President of the Nordic Council (2008)
Amb. Juan Esteban Aguirre Martinez – (Paraguay): Foreign Minister of Paraguay (2000-2001); former Ambassador of Paraguay to the United Nations Office in Geneva; Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council (2015)
Amb. Zorica Marić-Djordjević – (Montenegro): Ambassador of Montenegro to the UN Human Rights Council and World Trade Organization (2013-2018)
Amb. Vojislav Šuc – (Slovenia): President of the UN Human Rights Council (2018)
Amb. Keith M. Harper – (United States): Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council (2014-2017)
Amb. Ken Blackwell – (United States): Former US Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights
Amb. Amanda Ellis – (New Zealand): Ambassador and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations in Geneva (2013-2016); Prime Minister’s Special Envoy and inaugural Ambassador for Women and Girls
Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría – (Costa Rica): Second Vice-President of Costa Rica (2014-2018); Costa Rican Ambassador to Spain (2018-2022)
Amb. Filloreta Kodra – (Albania): Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations in Geneva
Amb. Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. – (United States): US Special Envoy (2008-2009); US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs (2001-2005); Chairman Emeritus, Stimson Center
Sharron Davies MBE – (United Kingdom): Swimmer, Olympic medalist
Prof. Michael Scharf – (United States): President of the American Branch of the International Law Association; Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law (2013-2024)
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
Gerald Staberock – (Germany): Secretary General, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Tracy Edwards MBE – (United Kingdom): Founder, The Maiden Factor
Miriam Ekiudoko – (Hungary): Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2021-present)
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)
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
Dr. Livingstone Sewanyana – (Uganda): UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2018-2024)
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
Prof. Jeremy Sarkin – (South Africa): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2008-2014)
Prof. Michael Lynk – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2016-2022); Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Western University
Prof. François Crépeau – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (2011-2017); Professor of Public International Law, McGill University
Prof. Gerard Quinn – (Ireland): UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2020-2023)
Prof. Fernand de Varennes – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-2023)
Prof. Urmila Bhoola – (South Africa): UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery (2014-2020)
Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci – (Malta): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2015-2021)
Prof. Ricardo A. Sunga III – (Philippines): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2014-2021)
Prof. Gabor Rona – (United States): Chair-Rapporteur/Member of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries (2011-2019); Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School
Saeed Mokbil – (Yemen): Former Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries
Gabriela Knaul – (Brazil): UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2009-2015)
Henrikas Mickevičius – (Lithuania): Member, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2015-2022)
Prof. Ariel E. Dulitzky – (Argentina): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2010-2017); Director of the Human Rights Clinic of the School of Law at University of Texas at Austin
Baskut Tuncak – (Turkey) UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights (2014-2020)
Alda M. Facio – (Costa Rica): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (2014-2020)
Prof. Soledad Villagra – (Paraguay): Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2002-2008)
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
Sonja Biserko – (Serbia): Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013-2014); Founder and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
Marek Antoni Nowicki – (Poland): Former President of the UN Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo; UN-appointed International Ombudsperson in Kosovo (2000-2005); Member of the European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999)
Dr. Melanie O’Brien – (Australia): President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS); Associate Professor of International Law, University of Western Australia
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey – (United States): Executive Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Bob Blackman MP – (United Kingdom): Member of Parliament
Sir Richard J. Roberts – (United Kingdom): 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Elfriede Jelinek – (Austria): 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Dr. Felicity Gerry KC – (United Kingdom): International barrister, Crockett Chambers, Melbourne and Libertas Chambers, London
Prof. Rebecca Cook – (Canada): Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
Prof. Brice Dickson – (United Kingdom): Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (1999-2005); Professor of International and Comparative Law, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB)
Prof. Nicholas Grief – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Kent
Amos Waldman – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Marion Böker – (Germany): Director, Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues
Dominique Attias – (France): Former President, European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE)
Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy – (United States): Executive Director, World Without Genocide
Prof. Errol P. Mendes – (Canada): President, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Canadian Section; Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
David Russell – (United Kingdom): UK Coordinator, Survivors Fund (SURF)
Prof. Predrag Dojčinović – (United States): Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut; War Crimes expert at the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1998-2017)
Prof. Sir Mark Vlasic – (United States): Legal Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (2001-2003); Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law & Public Policy, Georgetown University
Prof. Steven Leonard Jacobs – (United States): Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama; former First Vice-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
Elisabeth Rabesandratana – (France): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Thom Dyke – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Deka Chambers; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Brandtstädter – (Germany): Professor and Chair of the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne
Malcolm Fowler – (United Kingdom): Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, member of JVMI, and formerly of the Council and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales
Achille Campagna – (San Marino): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Arbana Xharra – (Kosovo): Recipient of US Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award 2015; Journalist
Jonathan Arkush – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Enterprise Chambers
Paulo Casaca – (Portugal): Executive Director, South Asia Democratic Forum; Founder, ARCHumankind; Former Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Paul H. Robinson – (United States): Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Richard C. Dieter – (United States): Former Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center; Adjunct Professor of Law, Catholic University of America
Prof. Rosa Ana Alija Fernández – (Spain): Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona
Joan Francesca Quint – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Radcliffe Chambers
Nick Brown – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
Greg Boos – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
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)
Christina Cushen – (Australia): Human Rights and Gender Equality Activist
Denis Jivaga – (Kazakhstan): Director, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)
Prof. Eric Heinze – (United Kingdom): Executive Director, Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society (CLDS), Queen Mary University of London; Professor of Law & Humanities, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Mélanie Sonhaye-Kombate – (Togo): Programmes and Advocacy Director, West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN / ROADDH)
Prof. Alex Neve – (Canada): Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; Adjunct Professor, Faculties of Law, University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University; Former Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
Ms Tarazi Mohammed Sheikh – (Bangladesh): Human Rights Defender
Prof. Hilary Earl – (Canada): Director, Centre for the Study of State Violence, Nipissing University; Professor of European History and Genocide Studies, Nipissing University
Melinda Taylor – (Australia): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Prof. Antonietta Elia – (Italy): International Legal Adviser, Council of Europe
Toby Cadman – (United Kingdom): Co-founder of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers
Dr. Victoria Sanford – (United States): Founding Director, Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York (CUNI)
Prof. David J. Simon – (United States): Director, Yale University Genocide Studies Program
James Joseph – (United Kingdom): Director, The Duty Legacy
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton – (United States): Founding President, Genocide Watch
ElsaMarie Dsilva – (India): Founder and President, Red Dot Foundation Global
Christina Blacklaws – (United Kingdom): President of the Law Society of England and Wales (2018-2019)
Dr. Maxim Pensky – (United States): Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University, NY
Andreas Bummel – (Germany): Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders
Dr. György Tatár – (Hungary): Director, Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention (BCMAP); Head of EU Task Force for Conflict Prevention/Emerging Horizontal Security Issues (2004-2010)
Kenneth Lewis – (Sweden): Lawyer for the PMOI in the Swedish trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury
Giorgia Pietropaoli – (Italy): Professor, writer, journalist and human rights activist
Marie Lamensch – (Canada): Global Affairs Officer, Montreal Institute for Global Security (MIGS)
The Hon. Tony Clement PC – (Canada): Former Member of Parliament from Canada; former Canadian Minister of Industry, Minister of Health and President of the Treasury Board
Gabrielle Louise McIntyre – (Australia/Cyprus): International Consultant, Lex Collective; Climate Counsel, Anti-Corruption Authority
Prof. Roger S. Clark – (New Zealand): Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, Rutgers Law School, Camden, New Jersey; Member, UN Committee on Crime Prevention and Control (1987-1990)
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips – (United Kingdom & Nigeria): Barrister, Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers
Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart – (Germany): Professor emeritus of law, University of Leipzig; Former judge of the Constitutional Court State of Saxony
Prof. Jerry P. White – (Canada): Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Western University; Director, Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium
Prof. Baden Offord AO – (Australia): Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University
Jane E. Durgom-Powers – (United States): CEO & Founder, Families of the Missing (FOM)
Prof. David E. Guinn – (United States): Public Service Professor, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany – State University of New York
Hans Noot – (The Netherlands): Director, Gerard Noodt Foundation for Freedom of Religion or Belief
Alison Brown – (United States): President, International Alliance of Women
Sheila Paylan – (Armenia/Canada): Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant with the United Nations
Prof. Yakin Ertürk – (Turkey): UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (2003-2009); Director of UN Division for the Advancement of Women (1999-2001); Member, Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture (2009-2013)
Hiljmnijeta Apuk – (Kosovo): Winner, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2013; Director, Little People of Kosova; Member, Ad Hoc Committee of the UN General Assembly on drafting of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Prof. Michel Mayor – (Switzerland): 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Eleonora Mongelli – (Italy): Vice President, FIDU – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (Italian Federation for Human Rights)
Prof. Ben Kiernan – (United States): Founding Director, Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University; Founding Director of the Genocide Studies Program (1998-2015) at Yale University
Prof. Alexander Motyl – (United States): Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Dr. Anja Matwijkiw – (United States): Professor of Ethics & Human Rights & 2024-2025 Indiana University Presidential Fellow of Arts and Humanities, Indiana University Northwest
Prof. Barry C. Barish – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Sergio D’Elia – (Italy): Secretary General, Hands Off Cain
Elisabetta Zamparutti – (Italy): Co-founder and Treasurer of Hands Off Cain; former Member of Parliament
Mohammed Mostafa – (Tunisia): Executive Director, Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms
Dr. Maude Barlow – (Canada): Former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly; Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
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)
Eric Sottas – (Switzerland): Founder and former Secretary General of Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture – World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Antonio Stango – (Italy): President, Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU)
Prof. James Allan – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Eastern Art, University of Oxford
Klaus U. Rackwitz – (Germany): Former Director, International Nuremberg Principles Academy
Prof. Sara Chandler KC (Hon) – (United Kingdom): Secretary to the Human Rights Commission of the European Bars Federation (Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe – FBE) and Former President of the FBE; Former Chair of the Human Rights Committee, Law Society of England & Wales
Prof. Robert J. Currie KC – (Canada): Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Dr. David E. Pettigrew – (United States): CSU Professor and Chairperson, Philosophy Department, Southern Connecticut State University
Prof. Eric Stover – (United States): Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas F. Creed – (Ireland): Senior Counsel
Dr. Stephanie Wolfe – (United States): Professor, Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State University (WSU); First Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2023-2025)
Silke Studzinsky – (Germany): Former International Civil Party Lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Lia Tsuladze – (Georgia): Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
Maria Dmytrieva – (Ukraine): Democracy Development Center
David Matas – (Canada): Human rights lawyer and Co-Founder of International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China
Prof. Juan Carlos Manriquez – (Chile): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Roberto Durrieu – (Argentina): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Dr Heather Strang – (United Kingdom): Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, Cambridge University
René Waldow – (Switzerland): Representative to the UN, Association of World Citizens (AWC)
Donna Robinson Divine – (United States): Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government Emerita, Department of Government, Smith College
Ingrid Betancourt – (Colombia): Former Senator and Presidential candidate
Prof. Ray Murphy – (Ireland): Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway
Alice Benhamou Panetta – (France): President, Vivent Les Femmes (VLF); Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur
Prof. Yasushi Higashizawa – (Japan): Professor, Faculty of Law, Meijigakuin University; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA)
Dr. Carmen Márquez-Carrasco – (Spain): Professor of Public International Law and International Relations, University of Sevilla
Dr. Robin Ramcharan – (Thailand): Executive Director at Asia Centre; Professor of International Relations in Bangkok
Judith Armatta – (United States): Author and Human Rights Lawyer
Hon. Peter Kent – (Canada): Minister of the Environment of Canada (2011-2013); Former Member of Parliament
Dr. Surepalli Prashanth – (India): Lawyer; Special Assistant to the Public Prosecutor, High Court for the State of Telangana
Christian Roth – (France): Lawyer; Founder and Honorary President, European Lawyers’ Union (Union des Avocats Européens – UAE)
Prof. Tom Shakespeare – (United Kingdom): Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Prof. Pearl Eliadis – (Canada): Human rights lawyer and Associate Professor (professional), Max Bell School of Public Policy; Full Member, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Ahmet Cemil Yildirim – (Kuwait): Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Gulf University for Science and Technology
Prof. Siobhan Wills – (Northern Ireland): Director, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University; Professor of Law, School of Law, Ulster University
Omar Soliman – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Guernica 37 Chambers
Prof. Julia Bray – (United Kingdom): Emerita Professor of Classical Arabic, University of Oxford
Tomas Manguel – (Argentina): Professor of International Criminal Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Dr. Denakpon L. Tchobo – (United States): Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; President, Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE)
Hon. Dr. Jocelynne A. Scutt – (United Kingdom / Australia): Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of Tasmania, and former judge on the High Court of Fiji
Reed Brody – (Hungary/United States): Member, UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (2024-present); Member, International Commission of Jurists; former Deputy Chief of the UN Secretary-General’s Investigative Team in the Democratic Republic of Congo; former Director of the Human Rights Division of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL)
Dr. Juan E. Garcés – (Spain): Winner of the 1999 Right Livelihood Award (Sweden); Lawyer and former advisor to Chilean President Salvador Allende
Prof. Caroline Bennett – (New Zealand): Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, Sussex University
Dr. Katerina Hatzikidi – (United Kingdom): Postdoctoral Researcher, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Prof. Natasha Lindstaedt – (United Kingdom): Faculty Dean of Education, Department of Government, University of Essex
Prof. Martti Koskenniemi – (Finland): Member of the UN International Law Commission (2002-2006)
Dr. Alia Brahimi – (United Kingdom): Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Filippo Cesaris – (Italy): Lawyer
Alexis Anagnostakis – (Greece): Barrister at Law
Claire Mahon – (New Zealand): Executive Director, Global Human Rights Group
Dr. Yevgeniy Zhovtis – (Kazakhstan): Chief Expert-Consultant, Member of the Board, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR)
Dr. William H. Wiley – (Canada): Executive Director, Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)
Dr. Mireille Rebeiz – (United States): Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor, Dickinson College
Prof. Alexander Alvarez – (United States): Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northern Arizona University
Prof. David M. Crane – (United States): Founding Chief Prosecutor, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
Prof. Sheldon Glashow – (United States): 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Rebecca A. Shoot – (United States): Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions
Prof. Takaaki Kajita – (Japan): 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Stephanie Barwise KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister
Prof. Eve Zucker – (United States): Lecturer at Yale University
Prof. Nenad Stojanović – (Switzerland): Professor, University of Geneva
Prof. David R. Boyd – (Canada): UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2018-2024)
Prof. Marie Fox – (United Kingdom): Queen Victoria Chair of Law, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
Prof. Rudolf Mellinghoff – (Germany): Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (2001-2011); President of Federal Fiscal Court of Germany (2011-2020)
Tali Nates – (South Africa): Recipient US Secretary of State’s International Religious Freedom Awards (2023)
Prof. Naomi Roht-Arriaza – (United States): Distinguished Professor of Law (emeritus), UC Law San Francisco
Dr. Susan Bazilli – (Canada): Member, UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus (2024-present)
Prof. Susana SáCouto – (United States): Director, War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL)
Prof. Luz E. Nagle – (United States): Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy – (United States): Founder, The Kennedy Forum; Former Member of the US House of Representatives
Irene Victoria Massimino – (Argentina): High Criminal Court Rapporteur of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016-2020); Professor of Jurisprudence and Human Rights
Karen Gomez Dumpit – (Philippines): Former Commissioner, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR)
Dr. Sibylle von Heydebrand – (Switzerland): Representative of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) at the United Nations in Geneva
Charles Taku – (Netherlands): Lawyer
Stan Brabant – (Luxembourg): Executive Director, Amnesty International Luxembourg (2012-2019)
Fathi Ben Mrad – (France): Associate Researcher, University of Luxembourg; President of the Francophone Association for the Development of Mediation
Alastair Logan OBE – (United Kingdom): Chair, Solicitors International Human Rights Group
Rabbi Abraham Cooper – (United States): Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2023-2024); Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Prof. Steven M. Schneebaum – (United States): Adjunct Professor of International Law, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Timothy Patrick McCarthy – (United States): Lecturer on Education, Harvard University
Prof. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch – (Norway): Regius Professor of Political Science, Department of Government, University of Essex
Prof. Felipe Gómez Isa – (Spain): Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean for International Relations, Deusto Law School
Prof. Stefan Braum – (Luxembourg): Professor of European Criminal Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg
Prof. Peter Romijn – (The Netherlands): Head of the Research Department, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies; Professor of History, University of Amsterdam
Andrea Shemberg – (Italy): Chair, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights
Nwabueze Nwokolo – (Nigeria): Council Member Emeritus, The Law Society of England & Wales
Struan Stevenson – (United Kingdom): Former Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Jocelyn Getgen – (United States): Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic; Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Cardozo Law
Prof. Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez – (Spain): Former President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL); Chair of International and European Law, University of Granada
Prof. Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen – (France): Former President of the Constitutional Court of Andorra (2014-2016); Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Universite de Paris 1)
Prof. Amanda Grzyb – (Canada): Professor of Information and Media Studies, Western University
Kurt Kerns – (United States): Member of the List of Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Prof. Kermit Roosevelt – (United States): Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Dr. Jeffrey Bachman – (United States): Associate Professor, American University School of International Service
Prof. Nico Krisch – (Switzerland): Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Christy Fujio – (United States): Executive Director, Synergy for Justice; Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk University Law School
Prof. Evelyne Schmid – (Switzerland): Professor of International Law, University of Lausanne
Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage – (France): 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Dr. Kerry Whigham – (United States): Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), Binghamton University
Dr. Avril Alba – (Australia): Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney
Rupert Skilbeck – (United Kingdom): Director, REDRESS
David Strupek – (Czech Republic): Lawyer
R. Bruce McColm – (United States): President, Institute for Democratic Strategies; former Executive Director, Freedom House
Dr. Mark Kersten – (Canada): Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice, the University of the Fraser Valley
Abbé Jolles – (United States): International Human Rights Litigator
Rt Hon Nigel Evans – (United Kingdom): Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (2020-2024)
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)
Dr. James Mehigan – (Ireland / United States): Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury
Sandra M. Coyle – (United States): Former Executive Director, World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP)
Dr. Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot – (Spain): Emeritus Professor of Private international law, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón
Pierre Bercis – (France): President, Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH)
Prof. Dr. Heinz Schöch – (Germany): Emeritus Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at the University of Munich
Emanuel Kamura – (Switzerland): Jurist
Nick Bell – (Switzerland): Human rights activist
Akaash Maharaj – (Canada): Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC)
Prof. Barend van Leeuwen – (Netherlands): Professor of European Union Law, Durham Law School
Prof. Max du Plessis – (South Africa): Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers; Adjunct Professor, University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela University
Prof. Martha Bradley – (South Africa): Associate Professor of Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law, University of Johannesburg
Niamh Harnett – (Ireland): Barrister At Law, The Bar of Ireland; Lecturer in Immigration and Asylum Law, City Colleges
Prof. Martin Flaherty – (United States / Ireland): Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School; Adjunct Professor, Barnard College; Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights, Fordham Law School; Founding Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Luciano Hazan – (Argentina): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2017-2023); Member of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) (2011-2017)
Mae Thompson – (United States): Advocacy Officer, CEASEFIRE Centre for Civilian Rights
Prof. Sanna Wolk – (Sweden): President of the UN Association of Sweden
Prof. Alastair McEwin AM – (Australia): Disability Discrimination Commissioner (2016-2019); Royal Commissioner, Disability Royal Commission (2019-2023)
Prof. Anita Sinha – (United States): Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC), American University Washington College of Law (WCL) (2019-Present)
Prof. Miloon Kothari – (India): UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing (2000-2008)
Prof. Luciana Minassian – (Argentina): Assistant Professor of International Law and Emiliano Buis Chair, Law School, University of Buenos Aires
Michael Pålsson – (Sweden): Attorney-at-law
Madasamy Ravi – (Singapore): International human rights lawyer
Dr. Andrew Woolford – (Canada): Former President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS); Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Prof. Eyal Benvenisti – (Israel): Former Director of the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, University of Cambridge
Anabela Atanásio Alves – (Portugal): Senior International Criminal Lawyer; Former Legal Adviser to the UN ICTY, the ICC, OSCE and International Nuremberg Principles Academy
Daniele Vecchi – (Italy): Partner, Gianni & Origoni
Prof. Kevin Jon Heller – (United States): Professor of International Law and Security, University of Copenhagen
Thomas E. Garrett – (United States): Secretary General of Community of Democracies (CoD) (2017-2024)
Prof. Maria Neus Torbisco-Casals – (Switzerland): Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute
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)
Dr. John C. Mather – (United States): 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Sètondji Roland Adjovi – (Benin): Member, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (2014-2020)
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)
Anand Grover – (India): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014)
Savita Pawnday – (India): Executive Director, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
Prof. Aurora Ciucă – (Romania): President, “Vespasian V. Pella” Association; Faculty of Law and Public Administration, University “Ștefan cel Mare”
Claude Nicati – (Switzerland): Deputy Prosecutor General of Switzerland (2001-2009)
Prof. John Dugard – (South Africa): UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories (2001–2008); member of the International Law Commission (1997–2011); Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Leiden
Nigel Edwards KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister, Lamb Building
Prof. Monica Iyer – (United States): Professor, Georgia State University College of Law
Prof. David Palumbo-Liu – (United States): Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
Frej Fenniche – (Switzerland): Chief of Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch (APMENAB), OHCHR (2015-2017)
Prof. John Packer – (Canada): Former UN Staff Member, Member of the UN’s Standby Team of Mediation Experts (2012-2014); Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Prof. Sarah Annes Brown – (United Kingdom): Professor, Anglia Ruskin University
Elisabeth Driscoll – (United Kingdom): UK Bureau Chief, JURIST
Natalija Havelka – (Croatia): Executive Director, Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights – Osijek
Peter Stafverfeldt – (Sweden): Chief Judge, Skaraborg District Court
Prof. Lindsay Moir – (United Kingdom): Professor of International Law, Law School, University of Hull
Prof. Jasper Krommendijk – (Netherlands): Professor of Human Rights Law, Radboud University
Dr. Steven McCulloch – (United Kingdom): Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester
Dr. Uwe Wirsching – (Germany): President of the Nuremberg Bar Association
Izabela Konopacka – (Poland): Immediate Past President, European Bars Federation (FBE)
Prof. Gill H. Boehringer – (Australia): Dean (ret.), Macquarie University Law School, Sydney; Co-Chair, Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers, International Association of Peoples Lawyers
Prof. Janina Dill – (United Kingdom): Co-Director, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC); Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, University of Oxford
Audrey Matéo – (France): Legal Counsel
James Wood KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers
Lauren Lederle – (United Kingdom): International Law and Human Rights lawyer, Senior Associate at Omnia Strategy LLP
Jane Hickman – (United Kingdom): Former Commissioner, Legal Services Commission
Darragh Mackin – (Ireland): Director, Phoenix Law Human Rights Lawyers
Amb. Dr. Alma Lama – (Kosovo): Former Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, Malta and San Marino; Former Member of Parliament
Prof. Fantu Cheru – (Ethiopia/United States): Former UN Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment
Orry Van de Wauwer – (Belgium): Director, Pax Christi Flanders; Member of the Senate of Belgium (2019-2024)
Jean Flamme – (Belgium): Member, Defence Committee of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA)
Dr. Javier S. Eskauriatza – (United Kingdom): Co-Director, Criminal Justice Research Centre (CJRC), University of Nottingham
Prof. Elaine Arnull – (United Kingdom): Associate Dean, Director of the National Hub for Social Innovation and Technology and Professor, University of Wolverhampton
Graham Blewitt AM – (Australia): Former Magistrate; Deputy Chief Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2004)
Emilie Palamy Pradichit – (Thailand): Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation
Sir Gregory P. Winter – (United Kingdom): 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Vincent Heneghan – (Ireland): Senior Counsel
Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt – (Germany): UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2010-2016)
Peter Carter KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London; former Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC)
Dame Eleanor Sharpston DCMG KC – (Luxembourg): Advocate General, Court of Justice of the European Union (2006-2020)
Prof. Joachim Frank – (United States): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Prof. Jennifer Wright Knust – (United Kingdom): Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
Prof. Margaret Greenfields – (United Kingdom): Professor of Social Policy
Giovanni Marotta – (United States): Vice President, Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE)
Dr. Jens Modvig – (Denmark): Former Chair, UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)
Paulo Saragoça da Matta – (Portugal): Partner, DLA Piper
Ellen Samyn – (Belgium): Member of Parliament
Dr. Frank Chalk – (Canada): Founding Co-Director, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University; President, the Association of Genocide Scholars (1999-2001)
Alannah Travers – (United Kingdom/Germany): Conflict, Justice, and Human Rights LLM at SOAS University; formerly Iraq researcher
Dr. Mark Klamberg – (Sweden): Professor in International Law, Stockholm University; Deputy Director, Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice
Dr. Simon Foote KC – (New Zealand): Barrister, Arbitrator
Prof. Markus Kotzur – (Germany): Vice Dean for International Relations and Chair for Public Law, European and International Public Law, University of Hamburg
Dr. Amy Strecker – (Ireland): Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
Dr. Donna M. Hughes – (United States): Professor Emerita, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies Emerita, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Rhode Island
Dorien Rookmaker – (Netherlands): President, More Direct Democracy (MDD); Former Member of the European Parliament
Marie-Hélène Proulx – (Canada): Counsel at the International Criminal Court; Former President of the ICC Bar Association
Dr Joanna Dingwall – (United Kingdom/Germany): Public international lawyer; Visiting Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow
Myo Win – (United States): Visiting Scholar at the University of Oklahoma, Executive Director, Researcher, Human Rights Defender, Chevener, Social Work, and Genocide Prevention
Imtiaz Ahmed Sajal – (Bangladesh): Assistant Professor of Law and Human Rights Defender
Lady Valerie Corbett – (United Kingdom/Germany): Founder, Lady Val’s Professional Women’s Network
Jeanne Sarson – (Canada): Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST)
Linda MacDonald – (Canada): Co-founder, Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST)
Prof. Bill Bowring – (United Kingdom): Member of the Executive of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC)
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
Matteo Pignocchi – (Italy): Lawyer and postdoc researcher
Dr. Jean-Edouard Gresy – (France): Anthropologist; Co-Founder, AlterNego
Prof. Rory O’Connell – (United Kingdom): Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Ulster University
Prof. Paul R. Milgrom – (United States): 2020 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
Prof. Wole Soyinka – (Nigeria): 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Senator Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam – (France): Former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Senator from France (2004-2023)
Rez Gardi – (New Zealand): Founder, Empower; Co-founder, Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland
Prof. Paul Modrich – (United States): 2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Prof. Tim Hunt – (United Kingdom): 2001 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Prof. Patrick Modiano – (France): 2014 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Prof. Jerome Friedman – (United States): 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prof. Gerardus’ T Hooft – (Netherlands): 1999 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prof. John Maxwell Coetzee – (South Africa/Australia): 2003 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Prof. Orhan Pamuk – (Turkey): 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Aarti Thakor – (United Kingdom): Lawyer
Farah Kanbi – (Tunisia): Co-Director, Politics4Her
Vikrant Dorkar – (United Kingdom): Lawyer
Chris Law MP – (United Kingdom): Member of Parliament
Michaela Streibelt – (Germany): Lawyer
Dr. Suthaharan Nadarajah – (United Kingdom): Co-Chair, Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ), SOAS University of London
Prof. Estella Carpi – (United Kingdom): Associate Professor of Humanitarian Studies, University College London
Rev. Susan Lee – (United States): Former President, US Women’s Caucus; Former Master Lecturer in Social Sciences, Boston University
Nathalie Seff – (France): Executive Director, ACAT-France
Prof. Richard Henderson – (United Kingdom): 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Brynhildur Björnsdóttir – (Iceland): Former Member of Parliament
Cantor Michael Zoosman – (United States): Co-Founder, “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty
Andy Vermaut – (Belgium): EU Climate Pact Ambassador; President, Fundamental Rights Movement Postversa
Helga Vala Helgadóttir – (Iceland): Attorney and former Member of Parliament
Orri Páll Johannsson – (Iceland): Former Member of Parliament
Sarah Mardini – (Syria): Swimmer and lifeguard
Prof. Josef Drexl – (Germany): Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Elise Groulx Diggs – (Canada): International Human Rights lawyer and mediator; Founder and Honorary President of the International Criminal Bar for the International Criminal Court
Gulnara Shahinian – (Armenia): UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Including Its Causes and Consequences (2008-2014)
Prof. Eva Pils – (United Kingdom): Humboldt Professor of Human Rights Law, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dr. Fiona McGaughey – (Australia): Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Western Australia
Prof. Reinhard Genzel – (Germany): 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Mariane Pearl – (France): Award-winning journalist; Founder of Women Bylines
Ifenla Oligbinde – (Nigeria): Founder, Ark and Rainbow Development Foundation
Prof. Michael Brown – (United States): 1985 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Prof. Robert J. Aumann – (United States): 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Prof. Robinah K. Nanyunja – (Uganda): President & Chair, Pilot International and Women Entrepreneurship Forum Africa (WEFA)
Patrick Baudouin – (France): Honorary President, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH); Honorary President, Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH)
Sara Kowal – (Australia): Director, Eleos Justice, Monash University
Prof. Roger Kornberg – (United States): 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Prof. John L. Hall – (United States): 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prof. Shuji Nakamura – (Japan): 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Prof. David W. MacMillan – (United Kingdom): 2021 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Herta Müller – (Germany): 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Prof. Yuan T. Lee – (Taiwan): 1985 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Prof. John Strawson – (United Kingdom): Emeritus Professor of Law, Department of Law, Policing and Justice, University of East London
Teresa C. Fogelberg – (Netherlands): Former Director of Research, Education and Culture & Director of Department of Women and Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Linda B. Louis – (United Kingdom): Human rights lawyer
Tom Syring – (Norway): Chairman, Human Rights Research League (HRRL)
Anders Wijkman – (Sweden): Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations (1995-1997)
Prof. David Hirsh – (United Kingdom): Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr. Eyal Mayroz – (Australia): Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
Dr. Alejo Vidal Quadras – (Spain): Vice President of the European Parliament (1999-2014); President, International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ)
Dominique Pradelle – (France): Professor, Sorbonne University
Rino Pullano – (Belgium): Historian Focused on Human Rights; Schools Facilitator
Prof. Timothy Mooney – (Ireland): Associate Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin
Toni Sillanpää – (Germany): Founder, Augmented Everest
Dr. Sylvester Sammie – (Italy): Executive Director, Justice and Accountability Worldwide (JAW)
Stephen Schneck – (United States): Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Sirra Ndow – (Gambia): Country Director, African Network against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances (ANEKED)
Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères – (Uruguay): UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy (2021-present)
Anwar Albunni – (Germany): Co-founder of the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research
Francoise Sème Wallon – (France): National Secretary, Union Européenne des Femmes
Marko C. Maglich – (United States): Senior Counsel
Dr. Katya De Giovanni – (Malta): Chair, Social Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Malta
Dr. Silke Voß-Kyeck – (Germany): Senior Researcher and Policy Advisor, Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte (DIMR)
Ibrahim Najjar – (Lebanon): Former Minister of Justice of Lebanon
Waad Al-Kateab – (United Kingdom): Syrian journalist and Oscar nominated film director
Mandy Sanghera – (United Kingdom): International human rights activist
Samantha Knights KC – (United Kingdom): Barrister
Jeffrey M. Pollock – (United States): Lawyer
Artemis Westenberg – (Netherlands): President, Netherlands Association for Women’s Rights, Female Labour and Equal Citizenship
Houria Esslami – (Morocco): Chair-Rapporteur and Member of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) (2014-2020)
Prof. Robert C. Roberts – (United States): Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University
Cyrus Engerer – (Malta): Former Member of the European Parliament
Iran Human Rights Monitor (IranHRM) – (Sweden)
Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) – (United Kingdom)
Hands Off Cain – (Italy)
German Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (GCADP) – (Germany)
Italian Federation for Human Rights – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani (FIDU) – (Italy)
European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) – (Netherlands)
CIVICUS – (South Africa)
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – (United States)
World Without Genocide – (United States)
Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH) – (France)
Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, The Graduate Center—City University of New York (CUNY) – (United States)
Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) – (Kazakhstan)
Le Comité de soutien aux droits de l’homme en Iran (CSDHI) – (France)
Guernica 37 Chambers – (United Kingdom)
Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, NY – (United States)
Genocide Watch – (United States)
Synergy for Justice – (United Kingdom)
Red Dot Foundation Global – (United States)
Budapest Centre for Dialogue and Mass Atrocities Prevention – (Hungary)
The Duty Legacy – (United Kingdom)
NGO Little People of Kosova – (Kosovo)
The Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes – (United Kingdom)
Intersection Association for Rights and Freedoms – (Tunisia)
Vivent Les Femmes (VLF) – (France)
Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) – (Ukraine): 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Families of the Missing (FOM) – (United States)
Global Justice Intelligence Eyes (GJIE) – (United States)
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia – (Serbia)
The Independent Commission for Human Rights in North Africa (CIDH AFRICA) – (Morocco)
West African Human Rights Defenders Network / Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains (WAHRDN/ROADDH) – (Togo)
Global Human Rights Group – (Switzerland)
Anagnostakis Law Offices – (Greece)
Women’s Human Rights International Association (WHRIA) – (France)
Buenos Aires Chapter of the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) – (Argentina)
Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights – Osijek – (Croatia)
Witness to Innocence – (United States)
Ligue Marocaine de la citoyenneté et des droits de l’homme (LMCDH) – (Morocco)
Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM) – (Morocco)
Manushya Foundation – (Thailand)
Persons Against Non-State Torture (NST) – (Canada)
Women’s Network for Change (WNC) – (France)
Community Work Ireland (CWI) – (Ireland)
lifespark – (Switzerland)
ACAT France – Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture – (France)
Ark and Rainbow Development Foundation (ARDF) – (Nigeria)
WomenNC – (United States)
Association des Femmes Iraniennes en France (AFIF) – (France)
Human Rights Research League (HRRL) – (Norway)
Association Internationale pour l’Egalité des Femmes (AIEF) – (France)
Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN) – (United States)
International Council of Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy (INCO Human Rights) – (Spain)
Union Européenne des Femmes – (France)
Netherlands Association for Women’s Rights, Female Labour and Equal Citizenship – (Netherlands)
