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RICHARD FALK

President of the Gaza Tribunal Project

He was previously a member of the faculty at Princeton University for 40 years and is now the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus. He is also a Research Fellow at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the faculty for more than ten years. He served as UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council in Occupied Palestine from 2008-2014. He is the joint author with John Dugard and Michael Lynk of Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (Clarity, 2022); author of Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (Pluto, 2017) and The Legitimacy of Hope (Just World Education, 2014). He published a personal/political memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim (Clarity, 2021).

HILAL ELVER

Professor of International Law, and the Co-Director of the Climate Change, Democracy and Human Security Project at the University of California Santa Barbara

Between 2014- 2020 Elver served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Currently she is a member of the Steering Committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the United Nations World Committee on Food Security (CFS); and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UN Food Systems Hub. She maintains several affiliations with academic institutions worldwide. Her book Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion was published by Oxford University Press, in 2012. Her most recent article on “Starvation and Famine in Gaza” will be published in forthcoming book, Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience by Clarity Press. Select reports, articles, op-eds, and interviews are featured on her website hilalelver.org. 

RAJI SOURANI

Human rights lawyer, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and a former member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Sourani was active in the cases of Palestinians representing deportation, and in monitoring the conditions of Israeli prisons and detentions. He remains an unreserved critic of human rights violations.

LARA ELBORNO

Palestinian-American Lawyer Specialized in International Disputes and Qualified to Practice in the US and France

She has worked for over ten years as counsel acting for individuals, private entities, and States in international commercial and investment arbitrations. She dedicates a large part of her legal practice to pro-bono work, including the representation of asylum seekers in France and advising on issues related to international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and the business and human rights framework. She serves as a board member of ARDD-Europe and has appeared as a commentator on Al Jazeera, TRTWorld, DoubleDown News, and George Galloway’s MOAT.

PENNY GREEN

Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University London and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

She has published extensively on state crime theory, resistance to state violence and the Rohingya genocide (including with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption, 2004 and State Crime and Civil Activism 2019). She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel, Tunisia, Myanmar and Bangladesh. In 2015 she and her colleagues published ‘Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar’ and in March 2018 ‘The Genocide is Over: the genocide continues’. Professor Green is Founder and co-Director of the award winning International State Crime Initiative (ISCI); co-editor in Chief of the international journal, State Crime; Executive member of the Gaza Tribunal and Palestine Book Awards judge. She currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship exploring the humanitarian camp as a site of genocidal reproduction. Her book with Thomas MacManus, Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold: Myanmar and the Rohingya, is forthcoming (Rutgers University Press, 2025).

CRAIG MOKHIBER

International Human Rights Lawyer and Activist and Former Senior United Nations Official

He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law. He has spent four decades in the international human rights movement, including more than thirty years at the United Nations. He is the former Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, held senior UN positions in Geneva, New York and in the field, and undertook human rights missions to dozens of countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has served as the UN’s Senior Human Rights Advisor in Palestine, and in Afghanistan, led the team of human rights specialists attached to the High Level Mission on Darfur, headed the Rule of Law and Democracy Unit, and served as Chief of the Economic and Social Issues Section, and Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch at OHCHR Headquarters. He was for five years the Chairman of the UN Task Force for Action Two (a global initiative to advance national human rights protection systems), and later Chaired the UN Democracy Fund consultative group, the UN Working Group on Leadership, and the UN Consultative Group on Inequalities, and the Steering Committee of the UN Human Rights Mainstreaming Fund. He served on the UN Gender Task Team (2023), and led several initiatives aimed at integrating human rights into the work of the UN itself. Craig Mokhiber has lectured and taught human rights, has authored several publications on human rights themes, and has served on the Secretariats of the World Conference on Human Rights (1993), the Commission on Human Rights (1995), the Working Group on the Right to Development (2001), and the World Summit (2005). He represented the UN human rights office in the LDC-IV Conference in Istanbul in 2011, the UN working group on the human rights of older persons from 2012, Rio+20 in 2012, the UN Sustainable Development Summit in 2015, the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants in 2016, and the UN Conference on Migration in 2018. While on leave from the UN in 1999, he led a global study on human rights and rule of law reforms, on behalf of the International Council on Human Rights Policy. Before joining the UN, he worked as an NGO activist, a human rights advocate, and a lawyer in private practice.

JAMAL JUMA

28 years of Experience in Activism in Civil Society Organizations and Grassroots Movements.

Jamal has experience in taking small initiatives and building them into significant organizations and grassroots movements that leave significant impacts on the Palestinian civil society and its causes. 
Jamal co-founded several civil society organizations such as the Palestinian Agriculture Relief Committee (PARC), the Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE), and the Palestinian environmental NGOSs Network-PENGON. Through his work in PENGON, Jamal contributed to the establishment of the popular campaign against the wall and settlement, Stop the Wall (STW), in 2002. In 2013, he worked with activists and grassroots organizations on the establishment of Land Defense Coalition- LDC to function as an umbrella for a number of grassroots movements, initiatives, and organizations to enhance coordination and cooperation between them and work to expand the popular grassroots base. STW and LDC, in collaboration with colleagues and the Popular Committee in the Jordan Valley, founded the Popular Council for the Protection of the Jordan Valley as a framework for the unification of the efforts of Jordan Valley residents, especially the targeted communities, to meet the challenges they face. Jamal has a Bachelor’s Degree in Arabic Literature from Birzeit University and a MMBA from City University in London.

MICHAEL LYNK

Canadian Legal Scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council in Occupied Palestine

He completed his B.A. and LL.B. at Dalhousie University and earned an LL.M. from Queen’s University. Since joining Western in 1999, he has taught courses in labour, human rights, constitutional, administrative, and disability law, while also serving as Associate Dean from 2008 to 2011. Lynk has published extensively on labour law and human rights in the Canadian workplace and is a regular speaker at national conferences. He has also served as a labour arbitrator with the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board and as a vice-chair with the Ontario Public Service Grievance Board.

From 2016 to 2022, Lynk served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, succeeding Richard Falk and preceding Francesca Albanese. In this role, he reported extensively on the impact of Israeli settlement policies, human rights violations, and the legal obligations of the international community, often calling for compliance with international law and accountability measures. Today, Lynk continues his academic work and remains an active voice on issues of international human rights and labour law.

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