HONORARY PRESIDENT OF ECPM
- Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice of the Republic of France who abolished the death penalty in France in 1981, former President of the Constitutional Council
POLITICAL FIGURES
- Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament
- Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vicepresident of the European Commission
- Cecilia Malström, European Union Commissioner for Trade
- Neven Mimica, European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development
- Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Kingdom of Belgium
- Marise Payne, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Nicola Renzi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of San Marino
- Cheick Sako, Minister of State, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Guinea
- Bessolé René Bagoro, Minister of Justice, Human Rights and Civic Promotion of Burkina Faso
- Mohammed Aujjar, Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco
- Abubacarr M. Tambadou, Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of the Gambia
- Salim Jreissati, Minister of Justice in the caretaker government of Lebanon
- Flavien Mbata, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Central African Republic
- Datuk Liew Vui Keong, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Judicial Affairs of Malaysia
- Pascale Baeriswyl, State Secretary of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation
- Audun Halvorsen, State Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway
- Maryann Njau-Kimani, Chair of the Kenya Task Force looking at the parameters of ensuring that the judgment on the non-mandatory nature of the death penalty is implanted
- Aramis Ayala, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, USA
UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS
- Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, United Nations
- Agnès Callamard, Special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, United Nations
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, United Nations
- Anaïs Marin, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, United Nations
- Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, United Nations
OTHER MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- Navanethem Pillay, President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty
- Maya Sahli-Fadel, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- Rémy Ngoy Lumbu, Commissioner and member of the Working Group on the Death Penalty of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
SAKHAROV AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZES LAUREATES
- Ensaf Haidar, wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, laureate of the 2015 Sakharov Prize
- Jamel M’Sallem, President of the Tunisian League for Human Rights – Founding organisation of the National Dialogue Quartet, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
- Shirin Ebadi, judge, laureate of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize
Photo : Robert Badinter, photographed for the exhibition “Portraits of Abolition” © Christophe Meireis / 7th World Congress Against the Death Penalty