Individuals
Individual signatures do not denote institutional endorsement unless also included in the list organizations.
Richard Goldstone, International prosecutor and former South African judge Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Judge Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ronnie Kasrils, former RSA Minister of Intelligence
Marzuki Darasman, International human rights lawyer and Member, UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka, and Chair, UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar
Jessie Duarte, Deputy Secretary General, African National Congress
Mary McGowan Davis, Retired Justice, New York State Supreme Court
Steven R. Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School,
Charles Petrie, former UN Assistant Secretary General and leader of the internal review of the UN’s actions in Sri Lanka in the last years of the conflict
George Kegoro, Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission
Richard Bennett, former Chief of Staff to UN Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka
Philip G Alston, John Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Carlos Castresana Fernandez, Spanish jurist and prosecutor
Stephen J. Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015)
Melanne Verveer, former US ambassador for Global Women Issues
Geoffrey Robertson AO QC, Head, Doughty Street Chambers; First President, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone
Hon Melissa Parke, Member, UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen
Chris Sidoti, Expert Member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar and Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
Maxine Marcus, Director, Partners in Justice International
Kathy Roberts, Co-Director Partners in Justice International
Toby Cadman, Co-founder and Head of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers
Almudena Bernabeu, International lawyer and Co-founder of Guernica 37
Mary Burton, Former TRC Commissioner
Monica Mc Williams, former Chief Justice for Human Rights in Northern Ireland.
Alan Martin, Independent Development Consultant
Bonita Meyersfeld, Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
Piers Pigou, former TRC Investigator
Dr Carla Ferstman, Senior Lecturer, Essex University
Dr Chris Dolan, Director, Refugee Law Project, Makerere University and Visiting Professor at the Transitional Justice Institute & International Conflict Research Institute, Ulster University
Beth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights, Stanford Law School, Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Centre for Human Rights and International Justice
Phil Clark, SOAS, University of London
Leigh Payne, St Anthony College, Oxford University
Haroon Gunn-Salie, Artist Val Moothoosamy, Foundation for Human Rights, Johannesburg
Enver Moothoosamy, Foundation for Human Rights, Johannesburg
Steve Kahanovitz, human rights attorney
David Forbes, Film maker
Heinz Klug, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Ahmed Mayet, Foundation for Human Rights, Johannesburg
Tom Winslow, Co-founder of the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture (South Africa)
Russel Alley, Executive director of the Development and Alumni Department, University of Cape Town
Professor Ron Slye, Seattle University School of Law
Thomas Unger,
Co-Director of Master in Transitional
Justice, Human Rights and the
Rule of Law, Geneva Academy of
International Humanitarian Law and
Human Rights
Christopher Gevers,
Law School, University of KwaZulu
Natal
Katarzyna Zdunczyk,
Senior Researcher, Foundation for
Human Rights
Judy Seidmen,
Board Member, Khulumani Support
Group (South Africa)
Jenna Coudin,
Lawyer, New York City
Vusi Pikoli,
Former National Director of Public
Prosecutions, South Africa
Bishop Paul Verryn,
Methodist Church of Southern
Africa.
Janet Love,
Vice Chairperson of the Electoral
Commission of South Africa and
former National Director of the Legal
Resources Centre
Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh,
Director of the Southern African
Litigation Centre
Charles Leonard,
journalist
Nikiwe Kaunda,
Team Leader: Human Rights, Access
to Justice & Rule of Law, Open
Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Lukhanya Calata,
journalist and author
Nurina Ally,
Executive Director, Equal Education
Law Centre (South Africa)
Catherine Kennedy,
former Director of South African
History Archives
Florencia Belvedere,
Programme Consultant, Public Affairs
Research Institute (South Africa)
Salim Essop,
former academic and anti-apartheid
activist
Gavin Hartford,
former National Organiser, National
Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa
Pat van Heerden,
filmmaker
Helen Scanlon,
Head of Gender Studies, School of
African and Gender Studies, UCT
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman,
Advocate, Durban Bar
Michael Schmidt,
author and journalist
Jacob van Garderen,
former director of Lawyers for
Human Rights (South Africa)
Chris Nicholson,
author, former judge, founder of
Durban Legal Resources Centre
Tymon Smith,
journalist and author
Phillipa Garson,
journalist and author
Gerald O’Sullivan,
former database manager of the
South African TRC
Nicole Fritz,
CEO, Freedom Under Law, South
Africa
Vasuki Nesiah,
Associate Professor of Practice at
New York University
George Mukundi Wachira,
Adjunct Professor, Public Law,
University of Cape Town
Sufiya Bray,
Advocacy Project Manager, Center
for the study of violence and
reconciliation (CSVR)
Richard Lyster,
former South African TRC
Commissioner
Mark Heywood,
human rights and social justice
activist and editor of Maverick
Citizen
Pablo de Greiff,
Director, Transitional Justice
Program, Center for Human Rights
and Global Justice, School of Law,
New York University, former Special
Rapporteur for Transitional Justice
Penelope (Penny) Andrews,
Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Racial Justice Project
New York Law School
Marlies Stappers,
Executive Director, Impunity Watch
Shirley Gunn,
Director Human Rights Media
Centre, South Africa
Karam Singh,
Corruption Watch, South Africa
Anwar Suleman Jessop,
attorney, Ladysmith, South Africa
Rupert Skilbeck,
Director, REDRESS
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh,
Transitional Justice practitioner
Na’eem Jeenah,
Director, Africa Middle East Centre,
South Africa
Martin Jansen,
Director, Workers’ World Media
Productions, South Africa
Habib Nasser,
Director of Policy & Research,
Impunity Watch
Howard Varney,
Human Rights Lawyer
Bettina Ambach,
Director, Wamayo Foundation
(Germany)
Val Ingham-Thorpe,
Director, Veritas
Brian Crozier,
Veritas
Dee Smythe,
Chair, National Research Foundation
– South Africa Research Chair in
Justice and Security, University of
Cape Town
Tshepo Madlingozi,
Director, Centre for Applied
Legal Studies, University of the
Witwatersrand
Lord Peter Hain,
Labour Peer and former Minister for
Africa
Dr. Frank Haldemann,
Co-director of the Master of
Advanced Studies in Transitional
Justice, Human Rights and the
Rule of Law, Geneva Academy of
International Humanitarian Law and
Human Rights
Alan Keenan,
Visiting Fellow, London School of
Economics
Dr Comfort Ero,
Africa Program Director.
International Crisis Group
Shuvai Busuman Nyoni,
Women, Peace and Security
Researcher and Practitioner
Philip Grant,
Executive Director, TRIAL
International
Carmen Cheung,
Executive Director, Center for
Justice and Accountability
Rawan Arraf,
Principal Lawyer & Director,
Australian Centre for International
Justice
Dr. Philipp Schulz,
Institute for Intercultural and
International Studies, University of
Bremen
Roselyn Hanzi,
Human Rights Lawyer -Zimbabwe
Andrew Songa,
lawyer and human rights advocate
Richard Gowing,
Director, The Sri Lanka Campaign for
Peace and Justice
Prof. Heleen Touquet,
Chair in European Values, University
of Antwerp
Daniel Machover,
solicitor
Megan E Price,
Executive Director, Human Rights
Data Analysis Group
Patrick Burgess,
Director of Asia Justice and Rights
Galuh Wandita,
Deputy Director of Asia Justice and
Rights
Jacob Dlamini,
author
Dzikamai Bere,
Coordinator of the National
Transitional Justice Working Group
(Zimbabwe)
George Mukundi Wachira,
Adjunct Professor, Public Law,
University of Cape Town
Phil Miller,
author and researcher
Rachel Seoighe,
SSPSSR, University of Kent
John H. T. Stewart,
Editor of the Daily Observer, former
Commissioner of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission of Liberia
James Yarsiah,
Director, Transitional Justice
Working Group (TJWG) in Liberia
Reed Brody,
international human rights lawyer and
Counsel for Human Rights Watch
Maître Armel Niyongere,
President, Action by Christians for
the Abolition of Torture (Acat-
Burundi)
Priya Gopalan,
Lawyer
Patrick Ball,
PhD, Director of Research, Human
Rights Data Analysis Group
Andrea Durbach,
Professor of Law, University of New
South Wales, Sydney
David Coltart,
Human Rights lawyer, Treasurer
General, Movement for Democratic
Change Alliance
Siphosami Malunga,
Director, Open Society Initiative for
Southern Africa
Venitia Govender,
Human rights activist
Bryan Sims,
Humanity United
Hurst Hannum,
Professor of International Law,
Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy,Tufts University
Suzannah Linton,
academic and practicing international
lawyer
Dr Edel Hughes,
School of Law, National University of
Ireland, Galway
Dr Catherine O’Rourke,
Director, Transitional Justice
Institute & School of Law, Ulster
University
Professor Brandon Hamber,
Hume O’Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster
University
Dr Brian Jack,
School of Law, Queen’s University
Belfast
Jonathan Hyslop,
Professor of Sociology and African
Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton
NY; Extraordinary Professor,
University of Pretoria
Otto Saki,
lawyer, Zimbabwe
Shari Eppel,
Director, Ukuthula Trust
Ray Motsi,
National Transitional Justice Working
Group in Zimbabwe
Nkandla Nkau,
National Transitional Justice Working
Group in Zimbabwe
Paul Themba Nyathi,
National Transitional Justice Working
Group, Zimbabwe
Jestina Mukoko,
Director, Zimbabwe Peace Project
Dr Frances Lovemore,
Director, Counseling Services Unit
Dr Chandana Mathur,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth
Paola Rivetti,
Associate Professor, Dublin City
University
Rory O’Connell,
Professor of Human Rights and
Constitutional Law, Ulster University
Rowena Pecchenino,
Professor of Economics, National
University of Ireland Maynooth
Richard Ashby Wilson,
Professor of Law and Anthropology,
Gladstein Chair of Human Rights,
University of Connecticut
Dr Gavin Andersson,
Adjunct Professor at University of
Cape Town
Louise Mallinder,
Professor of Law, School of Law,
Queen’s University Belfast
Kieran McEvoy,
Professor of Law, School of Law,
Queen’s University Belfast
Gino Govender,
Civil Society Activist, South Africa
Christine Bell,
Professor of Constitutional Law,
Assistant Principal (Global Justice),
University of Edinburgh
Dr. Roja Fazaeli,
Trinity College Dublin
Andrew Gilmour
Executive Director of the Berghof
Foundation; former Assistant
Secretary-General for Human Rights
OHCHR.
Peter Bowling,
International Working Group on Sri
Lanka
Hanny Megally,
Senior Fellow at New York
University’s Center on International
Cooperation
Dr Arujuna Sivananthan
Prof Charles Villa-Vicencio
Emeritus Professor Of Religion And
Society, University Of Cape Town;
Visiting Professor, Conflict
Resolution Program, Georgetown,
Washington Dc
Donald Deya,
Chief Executive Officer Of Palu,
Arusha, Tanzania
Gabriele Mohale (Mrs.),
Acting Head & Archivist, Historical
Papers Research Archive & Wits
Digitisation Centre, The Library,
University Of The Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Krish Govender,
Former Co Chairperson Of The Law
Society Of South Africa
Member Of The Bureau Of The
International Association Of
Democratic Lawyers
Harris Dousemetzis,
Lecturer Of Politics, Newcastle
University, UK
Jonathan Sisson,
Former President Of The
International Fellowship Of
Reconciliation (Ifor)
Justine Limpitlaw,
Electronic Communications Law
Consultant, Visiting Adjunct
Professor, Link Centre, University Of
The Witwatersrand
Dr Shereen Usdin
Aaron Weah,
Transitional Justice Phd Researcher
Based At Ulster University.
Formerly Programme Associate For
International Centre For Transitional
Justice (Ictj), Liberia & Country
Director For Search For Common
Ground-Liberia.
Ram Kumar Bhandari,
Founder & President, Network
Of Families Of The Disappeared
(Nefad), Nepal
Ben Winks,
Advocat, High Court Of South
Africa
Eduardo Gonzalez,
Transitional Justice Practitioner
Mural Kan,
Canada
Luke Moffett,
Senior Lecturer, School Of Law,
Queen’s University Belfast
Roy Samathanam,
Toronto
Taylor Dibbert,
Adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum
Dr Phillip Dexter
Amina Frense,
Journalist
Iqbal Jassat,
Exec.,Media Review Network, Jhb,
South Africa
David Eichert,
Department of International
Relations, London School of
Economics
Ronnie Govender,
Former Forensic Investigator for the
UN-ICTY, The Hague, Netherlands
Almudena Bernabeu,
Executive Director, The
Guernica Centre for International
Justice
Michael Reed-Hurtado,
Director of Operations, The
Guernica Centre for International
Justice
Stephan Parmentier,
Professor of Criminology and Human
Rights, Faculty of Law, University of
Leuven
Jordi Palou-Loverdos,
Director i Patró de la Fundació,
Fundació Carta de la Pau dirigida a
l’ONU, Spain
Glenda Wildschut,
Former Commissioner South
African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission.
Richard Kuper,
Jewish Voice for Labour
Organizations
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org
Partners in Justice International
International Centre for
Transitional Justice
www.ictj.org
International Commission of Jurists
Guernica 37 International Justice
Chambers (London)
www.guernica37.com
REDRESS
www.redress.org
ECCHR – European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights
www.ecchr.eu
Center for Justice and
Accountability
www.cja.org
Australian Centre for International
Justice
www.acij.org.au
Amnesty International, South
Africa
www.amnesty.org.za
Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR)
www.asia-ajar.org
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea
(HRCE)
www.hrc-eritrea.org
Refugee Law Project, School of
Law, Makerere University
www.refugeelawproject.org
Freedom House
freedomhouse.org
South African History Archive
www.saha.org.za
Section 27
www.section27.org
ProBono.org
www.probono.org.za
Lawyers Against Abuse
www.lva.org.za
Lawyers for Human Rights
www.lhr.org.za
Socio Economic Rights Institute
www.seri-sa.org
Centre for Environmental Rights
www.cer.org.za
Centre for Child Law
www.centreforchildlaw.co.za
Open Secrets
www.opensecrets.org.za
Foundation for Human Rights
www.fhr.org.za
Human Rights Media Centre
www.hrmc.org.za
Khulumani Support Group
www.khulumani.net
Southern Africa Litigation Centre
www.southernafricalitigationcentre.
org
Sonke Gender Justice
www.genderjustice.org.za
Legal Resources Centre
www.lrc.org.za
Equal Education Law Centre
www.eelawcentre.org.za
Imam Haron Foundation
www.imamharon.com
Impunity Watch
www.impunitywatch.org
Centre for the Study of Violence
and Reconciliation
www.csvr.org.za
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human
Rights
www.zlhr.org.zw
Kenyan Human Rights Commission
www.khrc.or.ke
Ndifuna Ukwazi
www.nu.org.za
Women’s Legal Centre
www.wlce.co.za
Wayambo Foundation
www.wayamo.com
Southern Africa Human Rights
Defender Network
www.southernafricadefenders.africa
National Research Foundation –
South Africa Research Chair in
Justice and Security, University of
Cape Town
Veritas, Zimbabwe
www.veritaszim.net
Centre for Law & Society,
University of Cape Town
www.cls.uct.ac.za
Transitional Justice Working
Group (TJWG), Liberia
Actions by Christians for Abolition
of Torture (ACAT-Burundi)
SOS-Torture,
Burundi
www.sostortureburundi.org
SOAS Centre for Human Rights
Law, University of London
www.soas.ac.uk/human-rights-law/
Ukuthula Trust Zimbabwe
Scholars at Risk Network Ireland
Counseling Services Unit,
Zimbabwe
International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH), within the
framework of the Observatory for
the Protection of Human Rights
Defenders
World Organisation Against
Torture (OMCT), within the
framework of the Observatory for
the Protection of Human Rights
Defenders
Freedom from Torture,
www.freedomfromtorture.org
TEMPLO
www.templo.co.uk
CIVICUS
www.civicus.org
Centre for Applied Legal Studies,
University of the Witwatersrand
Contra Nocendi International
South Africa Bds Coalition
Pan African Lawyers’ Union (Palu),
Arusha, Tanzania
People’s Rights Group, Sri Lanka
Jewish Voice for Labour, South
Africa