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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

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