Mai Soto is Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at the University of London. Soto’s research focuses on the integrity of global justice systems, with particular emphasis on the death penalty and the legitimacy of courts and police. In July 2024, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Mai as the fourth […]

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan commission created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) that monitors religious freedom violations abroad and makes policy recommendations to the U.S. federal government.

Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy specializing in Shiʿa politics and Iran’s religious establishment. 

Benedikt Roemer is a Walter Benjamin Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Oxford. His research interests include religious diversity in the Middle East, religion and nationalism, diaspora studies, the history and contemporary story of the Iranian Christian community and ethnographic research on religion in Arabic, Persian and […]

Lindsay Rodriguez is Director of Development & Advocacy at Coptic Solidarity.

Wai Wai Nu, is a human rights advocate and former political prisoner from Myanmar who founded the Women’s Peace Network.

The International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB) is a network of parliamentarians and legislators from around the world committed to combatting religious persecution and advancing freedom of religion or belief.

Teresa Flores is a Peruvian lawyer and director of the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Latin America (OLIRE), based in the Netherlands.

Oluwafunke Adeoye, or Funke as everyone calls her, is a lawyer, human rights defender and founding executive director of Hope Behind Bars Africa, an organization that promotes human rights and criminal justice reforms in Nigeria.