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Human rights lawyers

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Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and lawyer who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and as Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and was Director of Public Prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.

President of South Korea since 2025

Selahattin Demirtaş

Turkish statesperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1973)

Amal Clooney is a Lebanese and British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Ukrainian human rights activist

British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (born 1954)

American journalist

Sirikan Charoensiri

human rights attorney

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

American United Nations official

American academic

Zoe Konstantopoulou

Greek politician

Lesia Vasylenko

Ukrainian politician (1987–)

Egyptian lawyer and activist

Turkish attorney (1978–2020)

Chinese human rights lawyer (1971-)

Dutch politician and gay rights activist

Christine Loudes

Belgian human rights activist

William Schabas

Canadian academic in the field of international criminal and human rights law

American feminist

Swazi human right lawyer and activist (1970–2023)

British Queen's Counsel

Syrian Human Rights lawyer

Jennifer Robinson

Australian lawyer

Martin Scheinin

Finnish professor of law

Golriz Ghahraman

New Zealand politician

Lottie Cunningham Wren

Nicaraguan lawyer

Michael Mansfield

Geoffrey Robertson

Australian lawyer

Russian lawyer and human rights activist

Turkish attorney and statesperson (born 1976)

Chiu Hsien-chih

Taiwanese politician

Olga Sadovskaya

Dutch politician and lawyer

human rights lawyer and researcher

politician from the DRC

Algerian activist

Scottish human rights lawyer and political activist

British solicitor and human rights activist

Indonesian lawyer and human right activist

Vanushi Walters

New Zealand Labour Party politician elected in 2020

Albanian judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Chinese activist

Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You

Surinam-Dutch jurist

Chilean writer and human rights defender

lawyer (1920-2004)

Swiss lawyer (born 1986)

Jamaician lawyer