He was a member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture from 2013 to 2016, and prior to this, he led technical work on numerous cases, reports and testimonies as Head of Litigation and Head of the Registry at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He has also worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights (Copenhagen, Denmark) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica). Mr Madrigal-Borloz is a founding member of the Costa Rican Association of International Law (ACODI), a founding and current Board member of the International Justice Resource Centre (IJRC), and a founding and current Board member of Synergia-IDH. He speaks Spanish, French, English and Portuguese.

He is a Canadian citizen, resident in Thailand since 2003, and active in the South East Asia Human Rights Network as well as ASLI, the annual conference of Asian law schools. He is widely published on issues of indigenous and tribal peoples as well as LGBTI rights.

She holds a Master degree in Law from the University of Leuven (2014) and studied at Melbourne Law School (Australia) in 2012. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the relationship between the Common European Asylum System and the European Convention on Human Rights, and in that context she has worked as a visiting researcher at the Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice, Italy).

She was also a member of the Scientific and Ethics Committee in the ‘Access to Justice for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ project, coordinated the ‘Human Rights and Ethics’ summer school in cooperation with Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) for a number of years, and is a recurring visiting lecturer in the Advanced Human Rights Course on Sexual Minority Rights at the University of Pretoria (South Africa).

He holds the following degrees: LLD (Pretoria), LLM (Cantabury) and LLB (Pretoria). Prof. Viljoen is acknowleged as an internationally recognised researcher (National Research Foundation, SA).

He has also won the award for Exceptional Achiever at the University of Pretoria. He is the editor of the African Human Rights Law Reports, the African Human Rights Law Journal and the Global Campus Human Rights Journal. Prof. Viljoen has numerous publications in his name and vast experience in organizing moot court competitions.

In this respect, he has been involved in the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition since 1992 being responsible for setting the moot court problem each year and organizing the one-day seminars that take place each year at the Moot.

He is a member of the Global Campus Council as well as of the Scientific Committee of LATMA, on behalf of the Universidad del Pacifico, and a Professor at the GC Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean offered by the Centre for Political Studies at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (CIEP-UNSAM) in Argentina.

Professor Zelada’s research uses interdisciplinary materials from Sociology, History and Social Theory to explore issues of development and structural discrimination. He has been particularly committed to the study of the legal regulation of hate speech and sexuality, with a special focus on ethnic/race, sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 2018 he was elected as a president of Human Rights House Yerevan. Mamikon holds a degree in sociology, and a Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratization.

He specializes in health, human rights, and gender issues. Mamikon has been recognized by Frontline Defenders (Dublin) as a Human Rights Defender. In 2017 he received a Bob Hepple Equality Award for his work in advancing LGBT rights in Armenia. In June 2018 he received a Changemaker award in Los Angeles, California and in July he received a Soul of Stonewall Award in Berlin during the Christopher Street Day events.

He has previously worked for the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) in Belgrade (Serbia). During his work in HLC, Mr. Miletić dealt mainly with minority rights, including Roma, Albanians and Bosniaks.

Mr. Miletić started working for Civil Rights Defenders in 2004 as Programme Officer and later Human Rights Lawyer. Between 2011 and 2016, he was its Programme Director for the Western Balkans. Since 2016, Mr. Miletic is Director for Europe at Civil Rights Defenders.

In 2010, Mr. Miletić was a candidate for the Equality Commissioner in Serbia. He is member of European Commission of Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL). At the moment, he is finalizing his PhD thesis at Law School University Union, Belgrade, on the subject of discrimination in civil proceedings.

She is currently the Executive Director of Associação ILGA Portugal, the largest and oldest LGBTI organisation in Portugal. Marta has previously worked in the office of Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, for a Portuguese Member of the European Parliament and in the Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality.

She is a member of Associação ILGA Portugal since 2011, where she has developed specific work and expertise in the area of combating and raising awareness on anti-LGBTI hate crimes, particularly through the implementation of the projects Observatory on Discrimination and UNI-FORM.

Tarek has previously worked as director of communications and strategic planning for the MENA region in both the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He obtained his MALD in international security studies from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and his MPA in human rights law and advocacy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Tarek is a board member of the Legal Agenda, an ELI Fellow at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership and an Emerging Human Rights Fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard.

Gabriel currently works as human rights consultant and Secretary-General of the EMAlumni Association in Brussels. Among previous roles, he has held positions as an intern at the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Geneva; as a Researcher in Comparative Sexual Orientation Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands; as a Legal Fellow and consultant lawyer at the LGBTI Rapporteurship of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington DC; and most recently as an Interim Field Coordinator and Human Rights Officer at the United Nations' Peacekeeping Mission (MONUSCO) in the DR Congo. He has volunteered for Amnesty International in Ireland and COC in Amsterdam.

Gabriel won the AIESEC Brazil Alumnus Peace Prize in 2017 and is a Human Rights Campaign's Global Innovator.

Currently pursuing a masters in Human Rights, Gender and Conflict Studies in the International Institute for Social Studies - The Hague, his aim is to build on his experience and invest it in policy making and advocacy for human rights and bodily rights.

As chair of the Parliament’s subcommittee on human tights she had the opportunity to influence the human rights situation. In Finland, she was the minister for international development from June 2011 to October 2013.

She was responsible for development cooperation in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and for state ownership steering in the Prime Minister’s Office. She sat as a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1991-1995 and 2003-2009, and chaired its legal affairs committee from 2007-2009. She served as a member of the Helsinki City Council 1985-1994 and 2008-2014. Her particular specialist areas are human rights, transparency, global justice and environmentally responsible legislation.

She is a human rights defender, feminist and LGBTIQ+ activist for 24 years. She has actively worked in women organizations dealing with domestic and sexual violence, trafficking and supporting women candidates.

She joined ECSOL (European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law) in 2010. She received the Felipa de Souza Award of IGLHRC (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission based in New York) in 2013.

She was selected to UN Women ECACSAG (Europe and Central Asia Civil Society Advisory Group) in 2015 and to UN Women LGBTI Informal Reference Group in 2017. She was accepted to the Sakharov Fellowship of European Parliament in 2018.