Irwin Cotler and Ahmed Shaheed and Brandon Silver
Irwin Cotler, a former minister of justice, attorney general, and member of Parliament of Canada, is Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.
Ahmed Shaheed, a former foreign minister of the Maldives, is UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Deputy Director of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.
Brandon Silver, an international human-rights lawyer, is Director of Policy and Projects and Head of the Global Magnitsky Sanctions Program at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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