Original Signatories

Honorary Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva; Former Judge Ad Hoc, International Court of Justice; Former Judge, Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Director, The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)

Professor, University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law

John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law; Director, Racial Justice Project, New York Law School; First Black Dean at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law (2016–2018); Former President, Law and Society Association

founding Executive Director of Sisters in Islam and Musawah

Former Judge and Advocate

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to Vienna and International Organizations; Former Chief of Staff for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan; Former Professor, Kabul University

Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Former UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (2015-2021)

Distinguished Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development; Professor, University of Geneva

Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran

Palestinian Human Rights Defender

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University; Founder, Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Chair, Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists; Former Commissioner, President, Rapporteur for the Rights of Women, Rapporteur on the Rights of LGBTI Persons, and Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2022-2025)

Former and first UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women (1994-2003); Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict (2006-2012)

Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations based in Geneva (2015 – 2019); Former Afghanistan Minister of Public Health (2012 – 2014)

Associate Professor, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand

Iranian Lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Professor Emeritus; UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women (2003-2009)

Former Member, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls (2014-2020)

Former Legal Director, Amnesty International

Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Gilbert Global Justice & Human Rights Center, University of Southern California Gould School of Law

Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law, Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2003); Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

First United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (2012-2018), Senior Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, New York University

Co-founder and Executive Director, Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt

Former Chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

LT KC, Director, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute

Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2009-2021); Chancellor, University of Pretoria

Former Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Afghanistan; Former peace negotiator; President of the Board, Women For Afghanistan

Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law; Co-Founder, Gqual Campaign; Member, Independent International Fact-finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran

Writer and Activist

Project Coordinator at the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies and translator of the Declaration

Academic and Human Rights Defender

Former Vice Chair and 3-term Member, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Former UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities (2005-2011); Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law

Professor of International Law (ret.), Washington College of Law – American University, Former UN Special Rapporteur on torture (2010-16)

Director General of the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies

President and Founder of Panzi Hospital and Foundation, Gynecologist, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nobel Peace Laureate and President of Nadia's Initiative

Former Vice President of Costa Rica, Former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Right, Former Judge and Vice President of the International Criminal Court

Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa; Chair, Legal Resources Centre; Former National Director, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration; Former National Director, Independent Mediation Services of South Africa; Former Member, Competition Tribunal South Africa

Former Chairperson, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Human Rights Defender; Founder of the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

Co-founder and Former Director, Southall Black Sisters; Director, Project Resist

Professor of International Law Emeritus, Milan University; Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Former President of the UN Human Rights Committee

Professor of Islamic Law and Muslim Constitutionalism, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom

Former President of Ireland & former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch; Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2009); Former anti-apartheid activist

Founder and Executive Director, Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS)

Writer, filmmaker and human rights advocate

Former Chairperson, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission; Visiting Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Former Governor of Bamyan Province and First Afghan woman provincial governor; Former Peace Negotiator - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Former Minister for Women’s Affairs; Member of WFA (Women Forum for Afghanistan)

Former Professor at the University of Dakar (retired); Former International Coordinator of the Network of Women Living under Muslim Laws; Co-founder of the Gender Institute at Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Former US Ambassador for Global Women's Issues; Director, Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace & Security

Executive Director, Women and Children Research and Advocacy Network (WCRAN), 2026 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity Honoree

Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (2010–2022); Vice-President, European Society of International Law