Open letter: Establish a new UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change

An Open Letter by Global Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples for the Establishment of a new UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change

To the States Members and Observers of the United Nations Human Rights Council

As the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is taking place from 21 June to 15 July, 2021, the undersigned civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations call on the UN member States through the HRC to establish at this session a new UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change.

Climate change is an existential threat for humanity, jeopardizing the realization of all human rights for present and future generations. As the impacts of the climate crisis worsen and aggravate intersecting forms of discrimination against various peoples, individuals and groups in our societies, action can no longer be postponed at the HRC and urgent measures to protect people and the planet must be adopted. The issue of climate change cannot only be left any more to interesting interactive dialogues or to the existing different Special Procedures to address it when they can, even if their various contributions have been remarkable.

The creation of such a dedicated Special Rapporteur mandate focusing on the challenges of climate change is a longstanding request by a growing number of civil society organizations and of Indigenous Peoples, given that a dedicated mandate would enable the HRC to elevate its work on climate change in a systematic and sustainable way, protect people from runaway climate change and its unavoidable impacts, and promote respect for human rights in climate responses. Simply put, climate change must be a higher priority at the HRC.

In 2019, the Marshall Islands, on behalf of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), called for the creation of a dedicated HRC Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change at the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In the past two years, this proposal has gained momentum amongst States. During the 46th session of the HRC in March 2021, in an unprecedented move, a cross-regional group of 56 States joined Bangladesh in a statement that called upon Council members to consider creating this new mandate.

It is now time to act on these statements. We, the undersigned, thus reiterate our call urging States to establish a new Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change at the 47^th session of the Human Rights Council.

Co-signatories
(as of 14 July 2021)

International organizations

• ACT Alliance
• Adaptation Strategies International
• Amnesty International
• Anglican Consultative Council
• Anti-Slavery International
• Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
• Associazione Comunita Papa Giiovanni XXIII
• ATD Fourth World International
• Avaaz
• AWID (Association for Women’s Rights in Development)
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
• Carmelite ngo
• Casa Generalizia della Societa del Sacro Cuore
• Center for Climate Change and Sustainable development
• Center for Global Nonkilling
• Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research
• Centre for the Sustainable use of Natural and Social Resources
• Centro de Estudios HEÑÓI
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Climate Refugees
• Comboni Missionaries
• Committee on the Administration of Justice
• Company of Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul
• Confédération Internationale de la Société de Saint Vincent de Paul
• Congregación de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Buen Pastor
• Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
• Congregations of St. Joseph
• Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
• Church World Service
• Cultural Survival
• DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
• Dominican Leadership Conference
• Dominicans for Justice and Peace
• Dominican Leadership Conference
• Earthjustice
• EarthRights International
• Ecojesuit
• Edmund Rice International
• Emmaus International
• Emonyo Yefwe International
• EnGen Collaborative
• Environmental Justice Foundation
• ESCR-Net-International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Faith for the Climate
• FIAN International
• FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights)
• Fondazione Proclade Internazionale-onlus
• Forest Peoples Programme
• Foundation for GAIA
• Foundation for the Conservation of the Earth
• Franciscans International
• Gatef organizations
• Gender Action
• GenderCC-Women for Climate Justice
• Geneva for Human Rights
• Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)
• Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP)
• Global Legal Action Network
• Good Shepherd International Justice Peace Office
• Greenpeace
• Heartland Initiative, Inc.
• Heinrich Böll Foundation
• Housing and Land Rights Network
• Humanity & Inclusion
• Human Rights Movement
• Human Rights Watch
• Humanium
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Indigenous Peoples Rights International
• Initiatives des Femmes en Situations Difficiles pour le Développement Durable et Intégré
• Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Loreto Generalate
• International Accountability Project
• International Alliance of grandparents for climate
• International Alliance of Women
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
• International Indian Treaty Council (IITC)
• International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
• International Rivers
• International Service for Human Rights
• International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
• International-Lawyers.Org
• Ipas – Health Access Rights
• Jesuit Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat
• Justiça Global
• Justice Coalition of Religious (JCoR)
• Justice in Mining Network
• Loss and Damage Youth Coalition
• Lucis Trust/Bonne Volonté Mondiale
• MADRE
• Make Mothers Matter
• Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
• Maryknoll Lay Missioners
• Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
• Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, Inc.
• Mary Ward JPIC Office
• Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office
• Mercy International Association
• Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
• New Humanity
• Norwegian Refugee Council
• PeaceX
• Plan International
• Practical Action
• Project HEARD
• Rainforest Action Network
• Religious of the Good Shepherd
• Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary NGO
• Resurj
• Save the Children
• Secular Franciscan Order Canada Servas Internationales
• Sisters of Charity Federation
• Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
• Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd.
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
• Sisters of the good shepherd
• Slum Dwellers International
• Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES), Society of Jesus
• Society of the Sacred Heart
• Society of St Francis
• Soka Gakkai International
• Temple of Understanding
• Third Order Society of St Francis
• UNANIMA International
• Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
• Veterans For Peace
• VIVAT International
• Women Engage for a Common Future – WECF
• Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• Women Migrants (Wo-Mi)
• Women and Modern World Social Charitable Center
• World Against Racism Network
• World Climate Council
• World Christian Life Community
• World Yoga Community
• World’s Youth for Climate Justice
• WWF International
• YOUNGO

Regional, national and local organizations

• 350.org Japan
• Abibinsroma Foundation – Ghana
• Ação Franciscana de Ecologia e Solidariedade (AFES) – Brasil
• Act for Peace – Australia
• Accion Ecologica – Ecuador
• ActionAid Australia
• ActionAid Denmark
• Action Communautaire por la promotion des Défavorisés BATWA – Central Africa
• Action de Carême Suisse
• Africa Climate and Health Alliance
• Africa Coal Network
• African Coalition on Green Growth
• Africa Earth Environment and Wildlife Defenders
• Afrihealth Optonet Association (CSOs Network)
• African Network on Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
• Agenda ciudadana por el desarrollo y la corresponsabilidad social AC – Mexico
• Akina Mama wa Afrika
• Albanian Human Rights Group (AHRG)
• Albanian Society for All Ages
• Alboan Fundazioa – Spain
• Al-Haq – Palestine
• Alliance for Future Generations – Fiji
• ALTSEAN-Burma
• Amamanta Paraguay
• Amazon Watch
• American Association of Jurists
• Amigos de la Tierra – Argentina
• Amis de l’Afrique Francophone Bénin
• Amman Center for Human Rights Studies – Middle East
• Amnesty International USA
• Amrat- Talitha Kum – India
• Aprolama-IBFAN Costa Rica
• AquaHub -Nicaragua
• Arab Society for Academic Freedom – Jordan
• Arayara Foundation – Brasil
• Arayara Foundation – Uruguay
• Armanshahr|OPEN ASIA
• Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
• Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad – Colombia
• Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas
• Asociación Costa Rica Íntegra
• Asociación Escuela de Montaña Camino a Farellones – Chile
• Asociación de Líderes Comunitarios Red Angel Shingre – Ecuador
• Asociación La Ruta del Clima – Costa Rica
• Asociacion Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales Girasoles – Nicaragua
• Asociación de pescadores artesanales del golfo de Fonseca Apagolf
• Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA)
• Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España
• Association pour le Développement de l’Entomoforesterie et La Sauvegarde de l’Environnement
• Association la Siesta Mohammedia – Morocco
• Association Marocaine des Droits Humains
• Associação Nacional Independente dos Participantes e Assistidos da FUNCEF – Brasil
• Associação de Preservação do Meio Ambiente e da Vida – Apremavi – Brasil
• Association Women for the Contemporary Society – Moldova
• A Sud – Ecologia e Cooperazione – Italia
• Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
• Aytzim: Ecological Judaism
• Better World Cameroon
• Cadire Cameroon Association
• Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
• CAMBIUM – Colombia
• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Canadian Health Organization for Sustainability and Equity (CHASE)
• Canadian Jesuits International (CJI)
• Capìtulo Peruano Movimiento Católico por el Clima
• Carbone Guinée
• Care Society and Environment (CASE) – Cameroon
• Caritas Zambia
• Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD) – UK
• Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa
• CCFD-Terre Solidaire – France
• Center ANNA – Russia
• Centre for Citizens Conserving (CECIC) – Uganda
• Centre Oblat: A Voice for Justice – Canada
• Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH) – Guatemala
• Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenass – CADPI – Nicaragua
• Centro de Capacitación en Ecología y Salud para Campesinos/Defensoría del Derecho a la Salud – Mexico
• Centro de Capacitación e Investigación de la Mujer Campesina de Tarija (CCIMCAT) – Bolivia
• Centro de Colaboracion Civica- Mexico
• Centro de Culturas Indígenas de Perú (CHIRAPAQ)
• Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM)
• Centro Ecosocial Latinoamericano
• Centro de Energía Renovable y Calidad Ambiental AC – Mexico
• Centro de Estudios Sociales y Culturales Antonio de Montesinos A.C. – Mexico
• Centro Internacional de Investigaciones sobre Ambiente y Territorio – Ecuador
• Centro Nicaragüense de Conservación Ambiental – Nicaragua
• Centro de Politicas Publicas y Derechos Humanos (EQUIDAD) – Peru
• Centre for Environmental Rights, CER – South Africa
• Centre for 21st Century Issues – Nigeria
• CEUS Chile
• Chalimbana River Headwaters Conservation Trust – Zambia
• China Labour Bulletin
• CIRECK (Cercle International de Recherches et d’Etudes des Civilisations beKwel)
• Citizen’s Network For Community Development Zambia
• Climate Action Network (CAN) Canada
• Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe
• Climate Action Network Latin America (CANLA)
• Climate Action Network (CAN) South Asia
• Climate Action Network (CAN) Zimbabwe
• Climate Frontlines, Friends of the Earth Australia
• Climate Move – Finland
• Clímax Brasil
• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life – USA
• Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo” – Colombia
• Colectivo de Mujeres Campesinas (COMUCAM) – Brasil
• Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach – USA
• Collectif Sénégalais des Africaines pour la Promotion de l’Education Relative à l’Environnement (COSAPERE) – Senegal
• Comisión Batuco Comuna – Chile
• Comisión Franciscana de Justicia, Paz e Integridad de la Creación – Mexico
• Comité de Acción Jurídica Argentina
• Comité de Solidarité avec les Victimes des Violations des Droits Humains (CSVVDH) -Mauritanie
• Commission des droits de l’homme du Cameroun
• Community Empowerment and Social Justice Network (CEMSOJ) – Nepal
• Comunidad Indigena CASCOMI
• Congregação nossa senhora da caridade do Bom Pastor
• Congregación de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Buen Pastor América Latina
• CooperAcción
• Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité (CIDSE) – Europe and Northern America
• Coordinación de ONG y Cooperativas CONGCOOP (Guatemala)
• Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Paraguay
• Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de organizaciones para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente (CEDENMA)
• Corporación Camino a Farellones – Chile
• Corporación Chile Ambiente
• Corporación La Caleta – Chile
• Crude Accountability – Caspian and Black Sea regions
• Danish Family Planning Association
• deCOALonize Kenya
• Dibeen for Environmental Development – Jordan
• DITSHWANELO The Botswana Centre for Human Rights
• Diverse Voices and Action for Equality – Fiji
• DKA Austria
• Dutch League for Human Rights (Liga voor de Rechten van de Mens) – The Netherlands
• DUZAFOUND – Nigeria
• Economic Resource Center for Migrants and Overseas Employees (ERCMOVE) – The Netherlands
• Ecoteneo of Ateneo de Davao University – Philippines
• Election Network in the Arab World
• Energy Mix Productions – Canada
• Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas de las Américas
• Environmental Defence – Canada
• Environmental Monitoring Group – South Africa
• Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) – Asia Pacific
• Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia – Mexico
• Equiterre – Canada
• Fé, paz e clima – Brasil
• Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO) – USA
• Federation of Community Forestry Users (FECOFUN) – Nepal
• FIAN Belgium
• FIAN Colombia
• FIAN Honduras
• FIAN India
• FIAN Mexico
• FIAN Nepal
• FIAN Sweden
• FIAN Switzerland
• FIAN Uganda
• FIAN Zambia
• FIMA – Chile
• Finnish development NGOs (FINGO) – Finland
• Finnwatch – Finland
• FOKUS – Forum for Women and Development – Norway
• Fondation Eboko – France
• Forum Tunisien pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux
• Franciscan Institute for the Culture of Peace, Croatia
• Franciscan Missionaries of Mary – Texas – USA
• Francicans ofm Ireland
• Fraternidad Villarrica – Chile
• Fridays for Future – Kenya
• Fridays for Future – Suomi
• Friends of the Earth Canada
• Friends of the Earth Sweden
• FUNBBASIC – Ecuador
• Fundacion Chile Sustentable
• Fundación Economía para el Desarrollo – Latin America
• Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente – Chile
• Fundacion Gesta – Chile
• Fundación Haciendo – Ecuador
• Fundación Instituto de la Mujer – Chile
• Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar, A. C. MEXFAM
• Fundação Montescola
• Fundación Pais XXI  – Colombia
• Fundación para el Desarrollo de Políticas Sustentables (FUNDEPS) – Argentina
• Fundacion para Estudio e investigacion de la Mujer
• Fundacion Plurales – Argentina
• Fundación Promoción Humana – Colombia
• Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos, INREDH – Latin America
• Germanwatch – Germany
• Global Focus – Denmark
• Good Shepherd Sri Lanka
• Greater Whange Residents Trust – Zimbabwe
• Greenpeace México
• Greenpeace Spain
• Green Creation – The Netherlands
• Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa
• Grupo Ecologia y Ecumenidmo – Parroquia Ntr. Sra. Del Valle – Mexico
• Grupo Peru Ambiente y Clima-GPAC/coletivo de Sociedad Civil
• Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
• Hivos
• Homeless peoples federation Philippines (HPFPI)
• Human Rights Association (İnsan Hakları Derneği)
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Indigenous Climate Action – USA
• Indigenous Environmental Network – USA
• Iniciativa Amotocodie – Paraguay
• Iniciativas para el Desarrollo de la Mujer Oaxaqueña AC – Mexico
• Interfaith Power & Light – USA
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Argentina
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Ecuador
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Honduras
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Latinoamérica y Caribe
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Luxembourg BLL
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Peru
• International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) – Venezuela
• International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) – Asia Pacific
• International Transformational Resilience Coalition – California – USA
• Instituto 5 Elementos – Educação para a Sustentabilidade – Brasil
• Instituto Alana Brasil
• Instituto Climainfo – Brasil
• Instituto Maíra Brasil
• Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Amazonica-GTA – Brasil
• Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena – Iépé – Brasil
• Intercambio Social – Mexico
• International Campaign for Tibet
• International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
• Irish Council for Civil Liberties
• Iroko Charity Organisation – Nigeria
• ISACI (Island Sustainability Alliance CIS Inc.) – Cook Islands
• J&P Central South ProvinceSisters of the Good Shepherd
• Junta de Desarrollo Local, Corregimiento de Betania-Panamå
• Just Fair – UK
• Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) Kalimantan – Indonesia
• Karbi Human Rights Watch
• Kasungu Wildlife Conservation for Community Development Association (KAWICCODA)
• Keepacoolworld – New Zealand
• Kenya Environmental Activists Network
• Kitanglad Integrated NGOs, Inc. (KIN) – Philippines
• Kora im An Kil
• Korea Center for Sustainable Development (KCSD)
• Latin American Observatory on Human Mobility, Climate Change and Disasters (MOVE-LAM)
• Lawyers for Climate Action New Zealand
• Lead Tchad
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious – USA
• League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran
• League of Women Voters of U.S.
• League of Women Voters of California – USA
• Lekeh Development Foundation LEDEF
• Ligue des droits et libertés – Canada
• Linking Skills
• Lok Shakti Abhiyan – India
• Maleya Foundation – Bangladesh
• Manusher Jonno Foundation
• Manushya Foundation- Asia
• Medical Mission Sisters – USA
• Misioneras Eucarísticas Franciscanas
• Mom Loves Taiwan Association
• Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l’homme
• Movimiento Católico Mundial por el Clima Perú
• Movimiento Franciscano Justicia y Paz de Oruro – Bolivia
• Movimiento independiente indígena lenca de la paz Honduras MILPAH (SOCIAL)
• Movimiento MOVILIZANDONOS por una cultura de derechos de niños, niñas y Adolescentes en Chile
• Movimento Nacional de Direitos Humanos Brasil
• Movimiento No mas Anglo
• Murna Foundation – Nigeria
• Mwatana for Human Rights – Yemen
• Não Fracking – Brasil
• NAPM (National Alliance of People’s Movements)
• National Fisheries Solidarity – Sri Lanka
• National Indigenous Women Forum Nepal
• National Youth Council the Netherlands
• Nayacalevu’s Vision Consultancy
• Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN)
• Network of rural women producers – Trinidad and Tobago
• Notre Affaire à Tous – France
• Observatório do Clima – Brasil
• Observatorio para la Gobernanza Marino Costera – Colombia
• Oceania Human Rights
• Olof Palme International Center – Sweden
• Orden Franciscana Seglar Inmaculado Corazón de María – Guatemala
• Organisation Guinéenne de Défense des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen OGDH
• Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte
• Otros Mundos AC – Mexico
• Our Lady or Charity of the Good Shepherd Mid-North America
• Oxfam México
• Oxígeno Para el Futuro – Ecuador
• Oyu Tolgoi Watch – Mongolia
• PA Women’s organization Alga
• Pacific Centre for Environement and Sustainable Development
• Pacific Human Rights Initiative
• Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
• Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA)
• Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) – Côte d’Ivoire
• PANALIPDAN! Mindanao – Philippines
• ParyavaranMitra – India
• Pastoral Social Franciscanos Tuluà – Portugal
• Periferia – Peru
• Plantemos Nativo ONG
• Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Climático
• Plateforme Climat & Adaptation – Mali
• Poverty Elimination and Community Education (PEACE) Foundation – USA
• Pro 2000
• Project Survival Pacific
• Proyecto Bioeconomico Latinoamericano
• Promo-LEX – Moldova
• Rainbow Watch and Development Centre – Nigeria
• Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS)
• Red ambiental de Ñuñoa – Chile
• Red Sudamericana para las Migraciones Ambientales (RESAMA)
• Rede de Cooperação Amazônica (RCA)
• Réseau des Femmes Africaines pour la gestion Communautaire des Forêts (REFACOF)
• Réseau des Organisations de la Société Civile pour l’Economie Verte en Afrique Centrale (ROSCEVAC)
• Rivers without Boundaries Coalition – Northern Eurasia
• Secours Catholique – Caritas France
• Servicios Ecumenicos para Reconciliacion y Reconstruccion – El Salvador
• Sisters’ Association in Mindanao – Philippines
• Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
• Sisters of La Retraite – UK
• Shifting the Power Coalition Pacific
• Sociedad Amigos del Viento – Uruguay
• Sociedad Argentina de Pediatría – Argentina
• Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental – Peru
• Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN)/Afrihealth Optonet Association
• Society for the Improvement of Rural People – Nigeria
• Solidarité des Femmes burundaises pour le Bien-être Social et le Progrès au Burundi
• Solidarite Numerique Education et Santé Castres (SNESC) – France
• Soroptimist International of Europe
• Southern Africa Climate Change Coalition
• Success Capital Organisation – Botswana
• Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN) – Uganda
• Sustenta Honduras
• Swedwatch – Sweden
• TAMPEI – Philippines
• TANDARI – Asamblea de Jóvenes por la Sostenibilidad
• Terre des Jeunes – Burundi
• The Palestinian Human Rights Organization
• Todos por el Futuro – Venezuela
• Tree Uganda Academy
• Trust For Community initiatives – Botswana
• UAOD Cameroun
• Unidos por la Paz Alemania – Germany
• United libis hoa phase i & phase ii – Philippines
• United Nations Association – Iowa Division – USA
• United Nations Association of the USA
• URGENDA – Netherlands
• Urgewald – Germany
• Vanuatu Youngung Woman For change
• Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
• Voces Por El Planeta
• Vois Blong Mere Solomon
• WARBE Development Foundation – Bangladesh
• Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi
• Women and Media Collective – Sri Lanka
• Women for peace and ecology – Germany
• Women Solidarity and Development – Liberia
• Women’s Foundation of Minnesota – USA
• Women In Media-Newark – USA
• World Federalists Movement – Canada
• Youth Climate Emergency Action – South Corea
• Zimbabwe Climate Change Coalition
• Zimbabwe homeless people’s federation

Academics

• Terry McGovern – Columbia University
• Nancy Yáñez Fuenzalida – Centro de Derechos Humanos, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile
• John Pendergrass – Environmental Law Institute
• Sandra Nichols Thiam – Environmental Law Institute
• Joshua L Cooper – Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights
• Carole Brazeau – McGill University
• Kiymet Caliyurt – Trakya University
• Yenny olivares – Universidad de Valparaíso
• Manuel Sánchez-Moreno – Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
• University for Peace
• Curtis Doebbler – University of Makeni
• Karena Rodriguez – Universidad del Táchira
• Marcos Cárdenas – Universidad del Táchira
• Lina Muñoz Ávila – Universidad del Rosario
• Rafael Colombo – Universidad de Santa Fe
• Mirta Machuca – Colegio de Graduados en Nutrición de Salta
• Megan Donald – Stellenbosch University
• Andika Putra – Universitas Gadjah Mada
• Brigitte María Garrido Rodríguez – Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Pablo Dominguez – CNRS France
• Victoria Reyes-Garcia – ICREA and ICTA-UAB – Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
• Mouna Chambon – Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
• Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares – University of Helsinki
• Sandrine Gallois – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Francesc Baró – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and ICTA-UAB
• Julián Caviedes – Co-Laboratorio ECOS/ICTA-UAB
• Rosario Carmona – University of Bonn