Secretary of State Antony Blinken
2201 C St NW
Washington, DC 20520
202-647-6575
secretary@state.gov
RE: U.S. State Department withdrawal of leading human rights expert’s candidacy to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Dear Secretary Blinken:
We the undersigned groups and individuals are deeply concerned and dismayed by the U.S. State Department’s withdrawal of Professor James Cavallaro’s nomination for commissioner to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“the Commission”) of the Organization of American States (“OAS”).
On February 10th, the State Department nominated Cavallaro because he is, in the State Department’s own words, “a leading scholar and practitioner of international law with deep expertise in the region as well as the Inter-American human rights system.” Cavallaro served on the Commission for the 2014-2017 term, including as Commission President from 2016-2017.
Cavallaro’s recent nomination was welcomed by many in the human rights community in the United States and throughout the OAS region. Four days later, the State Department withdrew its nomination. The Associated Press reported that Cavallaro’s statements about the Israeli government and criticisms of the influence of pro-Israel lobbying groups led to the withdrawal of his nomination. The State Department noted that Cavallaro’s statements “clearly do not reflect U.S. policy” and “are not a reflection of what we believe.” Cavallaro reports that State Department officials informed him that the basis for the withdrawal of his nomination was his posts on Twitter about Israel and Palestine.
It is alarming that the State Department has reversed its decision and disqualified one of the most distinguished, independent human rights experts on the Americas from joining the region’s human rights oversight body based at least in part on his well-grounded analyses of international human rights issues.
The State Department should reinstate Cavallaro’s nomination for the following reasons:
- Cavallaro is one of the most distinguished human rights advocates in the Americas.
Following Cavallaro’s leadership of the human rights programs at both Harvard and Stanford Law Schools, the State Department nominated him to the Commission in 2013. He served both as Commissioner (2014-2017) and President (2016-2017), as well as Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty. In these roles, his numerous achievements and contributions have had lasting consequences for victims’ access to justice and the protection of human rights in the OAS region.
- Commissioners on the Inter-American Commission are independent human rights experts, not spokespeople for their country’s foreign policies.
The effectiveness of the Inter-American Commission rests on the independence of its Commissioners from their governments. This is reflected in the Inter-American Commission’s Rules and Procedures, which prohibit commissioners from participating in discussions and voting on matters that concern the country of which they are a national.
- Cavallaro’s criticism of the Israeli government is consistent with the findings of prominent human rights organizations.
Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations, advocates, and scholars have all published reports concluding that the Israeli government’s repression of Palestinians amounts to apartheid.
- Withdrawing the candidacy of a distinguished human rights advocate for their criticism of human rights abuses in Israel/Palestine or any other context sets a dangerous precedent that impacts human rights advocacy across the globe.
Human rights practitioners and scholars should not fear professional reprisal for expressing their views about human rights violations, especially those carried out by U.S. allies. This undermines free expression, academic freedom, and the work of all human rights advocates, particularly those who do not have the same kind of platform as Cavallaro.
The State Department’s move is harmful to the global human rights movement and undermines the credibility of the United States in advocating for human rights in other parts of the world.
Sincerely,
Human Rights Watch
B’Tselem
Center for Constitutional Rights
American Friends Service Committee
International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
Additional Signatories:
Institutional:
Jewish Voice for Peace Action
Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Freedom Forward
Front Line Defenders
Palestine Legal
Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)
International Human Rights Clinic, Boston University School of Law
ReThinking Foreign Policy
Institute for Policy Studies, New Internationalism Project
Andean Information Network
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Jewish Voice for Peace Boston
National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Haitian Bridge Alliance
International Human Rights Clinic, Santa Clara Law
Just Foreign Policy
Center for Justice and Accountability
Sons And Daughters of Africa, Inc
Tackling Torture at the Top
National Lawyers Guild International Committee
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
Project South
Asheville Homeless Network
MADRE
Human Rights First
Promoting Enduring Peace
Disability Rights International
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Justiça Global – Brasil
Gregório Andrade Advogados Associados
Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law
Classi Edizioni
Comité de Acción Jurídica (CAJ)
Water Protector Legal Collective
Iniciativa Direito a Memória e Justiça Racial
Instituto Silvia Lane
USA Palestine Mental Health Network
Sovrastrutture Paris
J – Punto Einaudi Napoli
Centro Estratégico en Justicia y Derecho para las Américas (CENEJYD)
Rede de comunidades e Movimento contra violência
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
Asociación de Detenidos Desaparecidos y Mártires por la Liberación Nacional ASOFAMD
Lowenstein Human Rights Project, Yale Law School
Defending Rights & Dissent
Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights)
Brooklyn For Peace
Instituto Braços – Centro de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos em Sergipe
Freedom Imaginaries
Colectiva Acción Directa Autogestiva
Foro Cultural Karuzo
Milynali Red
Familias desaparecidos Orizaba – Cordoba
Silvia Elida Ortiz Solís
Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos” (Red TDT)
Voces unidas por la vida y la dignidad humana
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Organización del pueblo kichwa Saraguro SA KIAT
Técnicas Rudas
ICDH
Comissão de Direito Internacional da OAB/RJ
ACAT-Brasil e da FENADV-Federaçao Nacional dos Advogados e Advogadas
Agenda Nacional Pelo Desencarceramento
Rede Nacional de Mães e Familiares de Vítimas do Terrorismo do Estado
Movimento Candelária Nunca Mais
Frente Estadual Pelo desencarceramento do Rio de janeiro
Coletivo de mães e familiares de pessoas privada de liberdade Rondônia
Movimento Mães de Acari
Frente Estadual Pelo desencarceramento do Rio Grande do norte
Amafavv Espírito Santo
Movimento de Mães Amar RJ.
Laboratório de Gestão de Políticas Penais da Universidade de Brasília – Brasil
Chief Executive Officer, Ancient Song Doula Services, Brooklyn, NY
CODEPINK
Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
MENA Rights Group
Serviço Ecumênico de Militância nas Prisões (SEMPRI)
BIPOCanalysis Collective
ePalestine.ps
MPower Change
Middle East Crisis Committee (MECC)
IfNotNow
Individuals (title and affiliation listed for identification purposes only):
Former Candidates & Commissioners, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; former & current United Nations Mandate Holders
David Kaye, UC Irvine School of Law, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression (2014-2020)
Aua Baldé, Catholic University of Portugal, current Human Rights Expert and United Nations Mandate Holder
Leilani Farha, Global Director, The Shift, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing (2014-2020), Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists
Flávia Piovesan, Professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Commissioner (2018-2021) and Vice President (2021) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Paulo Abrão, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission (2016-2020)
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Former Minister, Secretariat of State for Human Rights, Brazil, and Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (2003-2011)
Alexandra Huneeus, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, 2021 U.S. Nominee to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Gay J. McDougall, Member, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Vice Chair 2018-2019), Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities, Senior Fellow and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Leitner Center for International Law and Justice / Center for Race, Law, and Justice Fordham University School of Law
Manfred Nowak, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Paulo De Tarso Vannuchi, Commissioner to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2013-2017
María Luisa Romero, Member, United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture
Fernanda Hopenhaym Cabrera, UN Mandate Holder for Business and Human rights
Francisco Eguiguren Praeli, Former Commissioner and President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Professor, Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
José de Jesús Orozco, Former Commissioner and President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Professor, Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010-2016); Commissioner on Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2000-2003); Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence, American University – Washington College of Law
Justin Hansford, Independent Expert Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, Professor of Law, Howard University; Executive Director, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center
Reed Brody, Former Director, Human Rights Division, UN Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL), former Deputy Chief, Secretary-General’s Investigative Team, Democratic Republic of the Congo (SGIT), Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists
Victor Abramovich, Commissioner on Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2006-2009), Professor, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law
Academics and Advocates
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Peter Beinart, Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents, Professor at Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY
Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program, Adjunct Lecturer, New York University and Hunter College
Luis Arriaga, SJ, President of the Association of Universities Entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America, President, Universidad Iberoamericana, AUSJAL, Rector del ITESO (2018-2022)
Moshik Temkin, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Visiting Distinguished Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Edward Telles, Distinguished Professor and Director, Program for International Migration, University of California, Irvine
Susan M. Akram, Clinical Professor and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Boston University School of Law
Gastón Chillier, Human Rights Activist and Associate Director of the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO)
Samuel Moyn, Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University
Andrea Coomber KC (Hon.), Chief Executive, Howard League for Penal Reform, London, United Kingdom
Sibongile Ndashe, Executive Director, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) Johannesburg, South Africa
David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University
Vladyslav Lanovoy, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Jânia Saldanha, Professor, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS, Brazil, Institut des Hautes Études de la Amérique Latine (2016-2017), Université Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Université Catholique de Lille (2022)
Deena R. Hurwitz, Senior Fellow, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
Jonathan Graubart, Advisor, International Security and Conflict Resolution Professor, Political Science, San Diego State University
Nancy Hollander, Internationally Recognized Criminal Defense Lawyer
Stephan Sonnenberg, Seoul National University Associate Professor
Alice M Miller JD, Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law and Public Health Schools
Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California Santa Cruz
Brian Citro, Human rights lawyer and independent researcher
Dianne Post, Attorney International Human Rights Attorney
Hassan Eltayyab, Legislative Director for Middle East Policy, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Patricia Bauerle, Repeal Mental Health Laws
Claudia Flores, Clinical Faculty of Law and Director, Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School
Connie de la Vega, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco, Human Rights Advocates
Sophia Armen, Co-Director, Armenian-American Action Network and The Feminist Front
Kristine Beckerle, Cover-Lowenstein Fellow, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights and Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Hope Metcalf, Executive Director, Lecturer and Executive Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School
Blaine Bookey, Legal Director, Adjunct Professor of Law, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Beth Stephens, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School
Walter H. White, Jr., Past chair ABA Center for Human Rights
Alejandra Cardenas, Senior Director of Legal Strategies, Center for Reproductive Rights
Bassam Khawaja, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
Sandra Babcock, Clinical Professor and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Cornell Law School
Manuel Eugênio Gándara Carballido, Instituto Joaquin Herrera Flores
Carlos Nicodemus, Presidente da Comissão de Direito Internacional da OAB-RJ
Manoel Moraes, Professor Doutor da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco. Presidente do Conselho do Cendhec – Centro Dom Helder Camara de Estudos e Ação Social. Membro Titular da Comissão de Anisita/Ministério dos Direitos Humanos/Brasil, UNICAP
Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies, The University of Notre Dame & Harvard Divinity School
Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Noam Chomsky, Professor, University of Arizona
Elaine Hagopian, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Simmons University
Elsa Auerbach, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts Boston
Vladimir Gurewich, PhD Candidate, CUNY
Khaled Fahmy, Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East, Tufts University
Judith Chomsky Esq., Human Rights Attorney
John Womack Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin Amerian History and Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Nancy Murray, Former Director of Education, ACLU of MA
Roger Waters, Musician & Activist
Melina Girardi Fachin, Adjunct Professor and Coordinator of the Nucleus of Studies of Human Rights Systems; Attorney and member of the Bar (OAB) National Committee of Human Rights, Federal University of Parana
Seth Morrison, Jewish Voice for Peace Action
Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephen Soldz, Professor, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis; Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver
Ejim Dike, Human Rights Advocate and former Executive Director of US Human Rights Network
Aaron Schneider, Professor, University of Denver
Miko Zeldes-Roth, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Toronto
Dr. Richard Rothschiller, Hawai`i Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Martha F. Davis, Professor, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
Colin Dayan, Professor of English, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt
Francielli Mores Gusso, Professor, USP / UFSC
Lynne Layton, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
Marcus Vinicius Porcaro Nunes Schubert, Mister, Universidade Federal do Paraná
John King, Associate Adjunct Professor, New York University, Composer/Musician
Leilani Salvo Crane, Clinical Psychologist, BIPOCanalysis
Melissa Farley, Ph.D., Executive Director, Prostitution Research & Education
Julie Livingston, Julius Silver, Rosalyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor, New York University
Tiago Rocha Goncalves, NESIDH – UFPR (Federal University of Paraná)
Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor, Columbia University
Lara Sheehi, The George Washington University
Marisol Méndez, Fundación para la Justicia
Ronald C. Slye, Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Joseph Berra, Human Rights in the Americas Director, UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights
Rami G Khouri, Director and Senior Fellow, Harvard University and American University of Beirut
Nancy Caro Hollander, Faculty, Chair of Psyche & Society, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
Natalie Zemon Davis, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Toronto
Janet Cooper Alexander, Frederick I. Richman Professor, Emerita, Stanford Law School
Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Stephen A. Rosenbaum, Frank C. Newman Lecturer / Visiting Researcher Scholar, UC Berkeley, School of Law, Othering & Belonging Institute
Usha Iyer, Stanford University
Martin Flaherty, Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita, University of California Law, SF
Joseph Weiss, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Jackie Brookman, MFT, Jewish Voice for Peace
Gabor Rona, Professor of Practice, Cardozo Law School
Manoel Carlos Uchôa de Oliveira, Professor Assistente II, Assessor de Clínicas Jurídicas da Escola de Ciências Jurídicas da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi, Director, Santa Clara Law – International Human Rights Clinic
Rodrigo Deodato de Souza Silva, Professor de Direito na Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (Unicap), Coordenador do Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Profissional e Justiça Socioambiental da Unicap. Consultor Internacional do Gabinete de Assessoria Jurídica às Organizações Populares (GAJOP).
Persis Karim, Professor, San Francisco State University
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of International Law, UCLA School of Law
Bram Wispelwey MD MPH, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
George Bajalia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Michael R. Jackson, Research Professor, Earlham College
Dr. Yulia Mikhailova, New Mexico Tech, International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Associate Member, Law School, University of Chicago
Lynne Jacobs, Psychologist, Psychoanalysis
Rabab Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University
Lawrence Davidson, Professor Emeritus, West Chester University
David Luban, Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Malini Johar Schueller, Professor, University of Florida
John Packer, Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Emma Shaw Crane, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
Zeese Papanikolas, Retired Professor of Humanities, San Francisco Art Institute
James Schamus, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University
Jean M. O’Brien, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Kansas
Cynthia Franklin, Professor, University of Hawai’i
Tania Coiner, PhD, Psychologist
Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
Nina Felshin, Jews Say No!(JSN), Co-Founder
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Diana Martinez, Associate Director, JCCP, Wesleyan University
Aradhana Sharma, Associate Professor, Wesleyan University
Ron Jenkins, Professor, Wesleyan University, Yale University
Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Newland F. Smith, 3rd, Librarian Emeritus, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Marjorie Cohn, National Lawyers Guild
Daniel Meyers, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild-NYC
James Silk, Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights and Co-Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School
Michael Letwin, Former President ,Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW 2325
Kathleen Gilberd, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force
Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Emeritus, Harvard Law School
Betsy O’Neil Smith, Christian Jewish Allies for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Professor, Wesleyan University
Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University
Alice B. Hadler, Sr Associate Director, Fries Center for Global Studies
Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law & International Affairs, Northeastern University
Nancy Burke, PhD., Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University and Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Stephen Sheehi, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies, William & Mary
Juan Cole, Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
Daniel Smyth, Assistant Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University
Rev. Jim Eby, Presbyterian
Susan Landau, Christian-Jewish Allies for a Just Peace for IsraelPalestine
Susan Herman, Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis
Amr A Alhossary, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Wesleyan University
Katherine Pearl, Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
Thomas Becker, Professor & Legal Director, Wesleyan, Columbia Law School, University Network for Human Rights
Elizabeth B. Hegeman PhD., WAWhite Institute of Psychoanalysis, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis
Kerwin Kaye, Associate Professor of Sociology, American Studies, and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University
Laura Borst, Mind Freedom
Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco
Alan Gilbert, Distinguished University Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South
James Linkin, President, Cosmopolitan Tech Management Corp
Terri Ginsberg, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Patricia S. Mann, Retired from academic and lawyer, Independent writer
Ayca Cubukcu, Associate Professor in Human Rights, Co-Director, LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, Profesor / Investigador, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Corina Giacomello, Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas
Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor, Columbia University
Neve Gordon, Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Manfred Nowak, Professor of Human Rights Vienna, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice
Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Rebecca Landy, International Senior Lawyers Project
Jónatas Eduardo Mendes Machado, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
Genie Silver, Ph.D., Leadership Team, Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee, WILPF US
Caroline Rooney, Professor Emeritus of African and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Kent
Armando Luís Silva Rocha, Professor, Católica
Joan Goddard, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF US)
Karim G. Dajani, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Elisabeth Jean Wood, Professor of Political Science, International and Area Studies, Yale University
Dan Fischer, Food Not Bombs, New Politics, Promoting Enduring Peace
Roy Eidelson, Former President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Rania Hammad, Human rights activist
Cathy Shufro, Lecturer, Minor in Human Rights Advocacy, Wesleyan University
Scott Kurashige PhD.
Dr. Trudy Bond, Psychologist
Stephen R. Shalom, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, William Paterson University
Alex Kruckman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Wesleyan University
Nelson Camilo Sanchez, Director, International Human Rights Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law
Susan Rosenthal, MD
Steven Moore, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Mark Stern, Attorney, National Lawyers Guild
Ioannis Kalpouzos, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School; Co-founder, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Harvard Law School
Stephen C. Angle, Director, Fries Center for Global Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
David Maciewski, Mass Peace Action
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, University of Arizona
Laura Schleifer, Program Chair, Promoting Enduring Peace
JM Kirby, Advocacy Director, MADRE
Ana Carolina Lopes Olsen, Professor, Universidade Positivo
Marie Gilles McKenna, Administrative Assistant, Wesleyan University, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life
Celina Giraudt, Clinical Supervisor, University Network for Human Rights
Victoria B. Ross, LMSW, QCSW, MSW, MALD, DHL, Board Chair, WNY Peace Center
Rev. Shodo Spring, Founder and President, Mountains and Waters Alliance
Tim McSorley, National Coordinator, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS, University of London
Lisa Barcy, Professional Lecturer, DePaul University
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Grace Handy, City University of New York
Stephen Henri Devoto, Professor Emeritus, Wesleyan University
Gizele Martins, Jornalista, Justiça Global e Frente Maré
Alex Neve, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
Glaucia Almeida Marinho, Jornalista; mestra em Educação, Cultura e Comunicação em Periferias Urbanas (UERJ); doutoranda em Comunicação e Cultura (UFRJ). Diretora executiva da ONG Justiça Global e vice presidente da Federação Internacional dos Direitos Humanos (FIDH).
Rafael Buarque Montenegro, Communication Director, FFIPP-Brasil
Gregorio Antonio Fernandes de Andrade, Greg Andrade Advogados Associados
Musumeci Francesco, medico specialista, tutor universitari
Stephen Portuges, PhD., Associate Editor, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Emma Copley Eisenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University
Alessia Magliacane, Centre Georg Simmel EHESS Paris
Hana Odeh, University of Pennsylvania-School of Medicine
Fransérgio Goulart, Coordenação Executiva, Iniciativa Direito a Memória e Justiça Racial
Dr. Nancy Arvold, PhD, MFT, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Social Workers and Allies Against Solitary Confinement
Jean-Paul Ruszkowski, Former CEO Parliamentary Centre
Dr. Paul Kimmel, BioMuseo
Laurel E. Fletcher, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
E. Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Fernando Ribeiro Delgado, ESCR-Net
Elizabeth Berger MD, Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University School of Medicine
Karen Musalo, Professor, UC Law San Francisco
Rebecca Fadil, Steering Committee, USA Palestine Mental Health Network
Valentina Ripa, Researcher, Università di Salerno
Estee Chandler, Board Chair, JVP Action
Wade McMullen, SVP Programs & Legal Strategy, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Raffaella Aliano, Insegnante, Scuola
Kimberley Hall-Shapiro, MSW, PhD, Women’s therapy Center Institute
Dr. Orna Shachar, Div39
Nadia K Thalji, Mental Health Practitioner, Intercultural
Francesco Rubino, Professor de Direito Constitucional, Universidade Federal de Bahia – Salvador
David Klein, Professor Emeritus, California State University Northridge
Yukyan Lam, Adjunct Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Donald H. Goldhamer, Treasurer, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Luigi De Magistris, Sindaco di Napoli (2012-2021), Deputato parlamento europeo (2009-2011), scrittore
Alice Lowe Shaw, Ph.D., Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
Nancy Holmstrom, Professor Emerita, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University in Newark
Hayoung Choi, Master’s student, Yale University
Manuela Nivia, MPP Candidate, Yale University
Rachel Rubin, MD, MPH., Health Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace
Daniel Segal, Jean M Pitzer Professor, Pitzer College
Elaine Bachman, member, Jewish Voice for Peace
Sarah Gundle, Clinical faculty, Mount Sinai Human Rights Program
Lorena Perez, RN, Human Rights Investigator, Tufts Medical, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
Brant Rosen, Rabbi, Tzedek Chicago
James Hadler, MD, Epidemiologist, Former Connecticut Department of Public Health
Kevin A. Young, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rebecca Riddell, NYU School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
Francisco Pereira Coutinho, Associate Professor, Nova School of Law (Lisbon, Portugal)
Kate Mackintosh, Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Valentina Montoya-Robledo, Assistant Professor of Law, Universidad de Los Andes
Jess Peake, Assistant Director, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
Ahmed Bedir, OIC
Tamar Hayrikyan, Director of Programs, University Network for Human Rights and Visiting Instructor of Public Policy, Wesleyan University
Nikos Valance, M.A, J.D., LL.M., Visiting Assistant Professor
Helen Raizen, Co-Chair of Boston Workers Circle Israel Palestine Committee
Sara Rottenberg, LMHC Psychotherapist, Jewish Voice for Peace
Joshua Petersen, Doctoral student and human rights researcher, University of Michigan
Ghislaine Boulanger, Ph.D., Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Araceli Salcedo Jiménez, Madre de Fernanda Rubi desaparecida en Orizaba, Ver., Mexico el 7 de septiembre del 2012 ala edad de 21 años. Busco verdad y justicia
Manuel Urbina MD, MPH, Investigador independiente
Ximena Avellaneda, Enlaces estratégicos, Gesmujer
Javier Mujica Perit, Centro de Políticas Públicas y Derechos Humanos- Peru EQUIDAD
Camila Barretto Maia, Coordinadora trabajo internacional, CELS
Paula Litvachky, Directora Ejecutiva, CELS
Daniela González López, Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
Zulema Paniagua Oviedo, Periodista, Directora Agencia de Información Chuquisaca – ADICH Radio 100.6 FM (Sucre, Bolivia); integrante de la colectiva feminista Yuyay Ninamanta (memoria de fuego), integrante de la Red de Periodismo Feminista de Bolivia (RedFem), integrante de la iniciativa Periodismo que Transforma
Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, Ex Presidente de Bolivia
Ramon Cadena, Abogado guatemalteco en derechos humanos
André Hacl Castro, Doutor, Universidade Estácio de Sá
Patricia Kettermann, Defensora Pública, Defensoria Pública do RGS
Eliete Ferrer, Inimigos do Império
Ana Valeska Duarte, Pós-graduação em Direito Penal e Processo Penal, Advogada, Perita do Mecanismo Nacional de Prevenção e Combate á Tortura, especialista em Direito Penal e Processo Penal, Membro da Abracrim
Eugênio José Gonçalves, Professor, ICDH
Maria das Graças Victor Silva, Instituto Silvia Lane
Luiz Fernando Leal Padulla, Doutor em Etologia
Daniel Pessoa, Professor do Curso de Direito da Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido e membro do Centro de Referência em Direitos Humanos do Semiárido
Nancy Wechsler, Boston Workers Circle/Jewish Voice for Peace
Lama Zuhair Khouri, Psychoanalyst
Margaret Satterthwaite, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
Steven Hugh Knoblauch, Associate Clinical Adjunct Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Judy Roth, CUNY School of Medicine
John Willshire Carrera, Lecturer on Law and Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School
Nancy Kelly, Senior Clinical Instructor & Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK
Susan Herman, PhD, supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program
Diana Guzmán, Directora, Dejusticia
E Bruce Brooks, Research Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch
Meryl M. Crean, Rabbi, Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinic Council
Andrea Carlise, Assistant Treasurer, International Alliance of Women
Elizabeth Zoob, Boston Workers Circle
Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
Jill Gentile, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, NYU
Luiz Alberto De Vargas, Desembargador e Professor, Ajd
Jennifer Duskey, Christian-Jewish Allies for A Just Peace for Israel-Palestine
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director, CAIR San Francisco Bay Area
Nina Thomas, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Post-doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Maria LaHood, Deputy Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Ruhan Nagra, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Samantha Manausa, Harvard Divinity School
Donato Cioli, AssopacePalestina
Cathrine Brun, Professor, Centre for Lebanese Studies
Steven Botticelli, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Kelsey Jost-Creegan, Lecturer in Law and Supervising Staff Attorney, Columbia Law School Smith Family Human Rights Clinic
Talles Andrade De Souza, Gestor Políticas Públicas, Laboratório de Gestão de Políticas Penais – UNB
Maria Palma Wolff, Labgepen
Leslie Grueber, Harvard Kennedy School Alumna
Katie Gentile, Professor, John Jay College
Barbara Eisold, Adjunct, NYU
Fauzi Hassan Choukr, Doctor, Coordinator of Master in Law at FACAMP- Faculdades de Campinas
Zarka Shabir, Harvard Law School
Samantha Kahn, Harvard Kennedy School Graduate
Wladimir Augusto Correia Brito, Full Professor, Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho
Michelle Poulin, Harvard Kennedy School
Jessica Hao, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
Jack Parham, Student
Maia Brumberg-Kraus, Boston Workers Circle
Morgan Pratt, Harvard Kennedy School MPP
Maria Christina Barbosa Veras, Psicologa Especialista em Psicologia Clínica e Hospitalar, Instituto Silvia Lane de Psicologia e Compromisso Social
S. Priya Morley, Racial Justice Policy Counsel and Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Britton Schwartz, Deputy Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Santa Clara University School of Law
Margot Weiss, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Alfredo Feres Neto, Associate Professor, University of Brasília
Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Yale School of Public Health
Jeffrey Levy, Boston Workers Circle
Elisa Quiroz, Program Officer, Americas region, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Lisa Clemans-Cope, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Professor, Columbia University
Valerie Clemans, Teacher, Massachusetts Public Schools
Lucio Castilla, Professor, University of Massachusetts
Maria del Carmen Villarreal Villamar, PhD in Political Science, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Sari Bashi, Program Director, Human Rights Watch
Rosie Clemans-Cope, Activist & Organizer
Susan Gutwill, Boston Workers Circle
Marianna Chaves, Vice-Presidente of the Committee on Bioethics and Biolaw, Brazilian Institute of Family Law
Haynes Miller, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patrícia Perrone Campos Mello, Centro Universitário de Brasília – CEUB
Sophie Lally, Coordinator, Técnicas Rudas
Marcie Mersky, Human Rights and Transitional Justice Expert
Celia Maria de Albuquerque Trindade, Socióloga, Cendhec