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The Esperanza Protocol

Individual supporters and signatories

lizabeth Abi-Mershed, Human rights expert; Former Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. 

Philip Alston, Professor of international law, human rights law, and international criminal law at Ney York University; Faculty Director of Center for Human Rights & Global Justice NTY; Former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and extrajudicial executions. 

Carlos Ayala Corao, Human rights expert; current president of the International Commission of Jurists; former president of the Inter-American commission on human rights. 

Angelita Baeyens, Vice President international Advocacy and Litigation, Robert F. K Human Rights. 

Catalina Botero, former Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; founding partner of DeJusticia Colombia; co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board; former dean of the Law School at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. 

Marina Brilman, International Human Rights expert, Law Society of England and Wales. 

Ángela Buitrago, Expert of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) on Precautionary Measures of the IACHR in Mexico, consultant to the UN Honduras, former Deputy Prosecutor before the Supreme Court of Colombia, Doctor in Law and Legal Sociology. 

Gina Cabarcas Maciá, Cofounder and senior investigator at Laboratorio de Justicia y Política Criminal (Colombia); Member of Colombia’s Historical Memory Group and led multiple investigation teams in Colombia’s Prosecution Office and the Unit for the Search of Disappeared Persons.  

Sandra Coliver, Board Member, Guernica Centre for International Justice; former Senior Managing Legal Officer, Open Society Justice Initiative; and former Executive Director, Center for Justice & Accountability.   

Bernard Duhaime, Ad. E. Full professor of law at the Faculty Political Science and Law of the University of Quebec in Montreal; former Member and Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. 

Laurel E. Fletcher, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law University of California Berkeley School of Law. 

Michel Forst, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, former UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, former Chair of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, founding member of Front Line Defenders. 

Gustavo Gallón, Director and founder of Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ), Former Independent Expert of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in Haiti, former Special Representative of the United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights for Equatorial Guinea. 

Diego García Sayán, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; former Secretary of State, and Minister of Justice of Peru. 

Robert Goldman, President, International Commission of Jurists; former UN Independent Expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). 

Verónica Gómez, Professor of international law and human rights law at the San Martin University (UNSAM) and at the European Inter-University Centre (EIUC); President of Global Campus of Human Rights. 

Tea Gorjanc Prelević, Executive Director, Human Rights Action, Montenegro. 

Claudio Grossman, Member UN International Law Commission; former President, United Nations Committee against Torture; former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.  

Verónica Hinestroza Arenas, Senior Legal Advisor at Fair Trials; founding member of Omega Research Foundation Network of Experts; Steering Committee member of the Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering. 

Daniela Kravetz, International criminal justice and gender expert. 

Krsticevic Viviana, Human rights expert; Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). 

Mariela Labozzeta, Federal Prosecutor, head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit on Violence against Women (UFEM) and of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 of Morón, both of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office in Argentina. 

Edison Lanza, Human rights, freedom of expression and digital rights expert; Former Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). 

Rashida Manjoo, Professor Emeritus, Law faculty, University of Cape Town, South Africa; former UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.

Juan E. Méndez, Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence, Washington College of Law; former Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Co-Chair of the Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering. 

Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey, Program Director for Central America and Mexico, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL); former Attorney General of Guatemala; member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) in Case Ayotzinapa in Mexico and in Nicaragua. 

Fabián Salvioli, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. 

Clara Sandoval, Human Rights Professor, University of Essex and Human Rights Center and Program Director of the Global Survivors Fund.  

Silvia Serrano, Associate Director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University; former Coordinator of the Cases Section of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). 

Jan-Michael Simon, Senior Researcher, International Scientific Outreach, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. 

Gaye Sowe, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA). 

Morris Tidball-Binz, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions. 

Alejandra Vicente, Head of Law, Redress; former legal director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).  

Soledad Villagra de Biedermann, Professor at the Catholic University in Paraguay; former president of the National Mechanism against Torture; former member, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. 

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Institutional supporters

African Center for Justice and Peace Studies – International

Article 19, Regional Office – Mexico and Central America  

Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) – Perú 

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)- International 

Child Rights Connect – International  

Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) – Colombia  

Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ) – Colombia 

Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Caracazo (COFAVIC) – Venezuela 

Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) – Colombia 

IFEX – International 

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa -International 

International Federation for Human Rights -FIDH (in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) – International

Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) – Mexico 

No es Hora de Callar – Colombia  

OXFAM International – International 

Peace Brigades International (PBI) – International 

Protection International – International 

REDRESS

Reflection, Research and Communication Team (ERIC-SJ)- Honduras 

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights – International 

Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders of Guatemala (UDEFEGUA) – Guatemala 

World Organisation Against Torture – OMCT (in the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) – International 

International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) – International 

Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation – SweFOR

The Esperanza Protocol

Committee members

 CEJIL’S PROTOCOL COORDINATING COMMITTEE 

Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director 

Jessica Ramírez Moreno, Staff attorney 

 

SURVEY COMMITTEE 

Lina Erazo (Chair) 

Lara Blanco & Alma Perez 

Enrique Eguren 

Eleanor Openshaw 

Almut Rochowanski 

Gaye Sowe 

 

INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK COMMITTEE 

Alejandra Vicente (Chair) 

Angelita Baeyens 

Golda Benjamin 

Emerlynne Gil 

Juan E. Mendez 

 

PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE 

Renata Oliveira (Chair) 

Sandy Coliver 

Enrique Eguren 

Sejin Kim 

Gilbert Sebihogo 

Ana Zbona 

PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES OF INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE 

Veronica Hinestroza 

Marina Brilman 

Maria Luisa Bascur 

 

CRIMINAL POLICY AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE 

Veronica Gómez 

Roxanna Altholz 

Rafael Barrios 

Golda Benjamin 

Gina Cabarcas 

Leonardo Filippini 

Poengky Indarti 

Maria Martín 

Stephan Parmentier 

Claudia Paz y Paz 

 

REPARATIONS COMMITTEE 

Elizabeth Abi-Mershed 

Ana María Reyes 

Ana Lucrecia Molina Thiessen 

Gilda Pacheco 

Clara Sandoval