National Consultants and Contributors

Australia

•          Professor David Kinley, Director, Human Rights Law Centre, Monash University,       Melbourne

•          Jennifer Beard, PhD Candidate, Law Faculty, University of Melbourne

•          Peter Thomson, Department of the Attorney-General, Australia

Brazil

•          James Louis Cavallaro, Director, Global Justice Centre, Rio de Janeiro

•          Camila Morena, Attorney, Human Rights Watch, Rio de Janeiro

Canada

•          Professor Anne Bayefsky, York University, Toronto

•          Gillian Collins, Research Associate, York University

•          Heather Northcott, LL.B. candidate, York University

Colombia

•          Professor Arturo Carrillo Suarez, Henkin Senior Fellow and Lecturer in Law Human         Rights Institute, Columbia Law School, New York

Czech Republic

•          Professor Alena Kroupova, Director, Human Rights Education Centre, Charles University,

                         Prague 

•          Pavel Bilek, PhD candidate, Charles University, Prague

Egypt

•          Professor Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid, Director, Centre for Developing Countries, Cairo            University

•          Nevine Al-Husseiny, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt

•          Hafez Abo Seada

Estonia

•          Mai Hion, Advocate, and Former Member, European Commission on Human Rights

Finland

•          Professor Martin Scheinin, Director, Abo Akademi Institute for Human Rights, Abo

                         Akademi University, Turko, Finland

•          Sanna Riikka Hyttinen, Human Rights Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland

India

•          Professor Yogesh Tyagi, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

                         New Delhi

Iran

•          Mehrdad Rezaeian, Expert, International Relations Office, Drug Control Headquarters of

                         the Islamic Republic of Iran

Jamaica

•          Dr. Lloyd Barnett, Chairman, General Legal Council and the Independent Jamaican

Council for Human Rights

Japan

•          Professor Kohki Abe, Faculty of Law, Kanagawa University, Yokohama

Mexico

•          Gabriela Gonzalez Rivas, Director, Defense Department, Mexican Commission for the                 Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

•          Salvador Tinajero-Esquivel, Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of

                         Human Rights

•          Paulina Vega-Gonzalez, Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human

                         Rights

Philippines

•          Eleanor Conda, Lawyer and Women's Rights Advocate

Romania

•          Professor Irina Moroianu Zlatescu, Director, Romanian Institute for Human Rights,

                         University of Bucharest

Russia

•          Yury Kolosov, Chair, International Law, Moscow State Institute of International

                         Relations

Senegal

•          Professor Biram Ndiaye, Professor of Law, University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

•          Professor Frans Viljoen, Faculty of Law and Centre for Human Rights, University of

                         Pretoria, South Africa

South Africa

•          Professor Christof Heyns, Director, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

•          Professor Frans Viljoen, Faculty of Law and Centre for Human Rights, University of

                         Pretoria

Spain

•          Natalia Alvarez Molinero, Research Fellow, Institute of Human Rights, University of

                         Duesto

Zambia

•          Professor Alfred Chanda, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean, School of Law, University

                         of Zambia