Cynthia Odier, President 

Pauline Nerfin, Secretary General 

Mercè Monjé, Treasurer

Leo Kaneman and Marie Heuzé, Members

The late Sergio Vieira De Mello, first Patron of the Festival, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights     

Ruth Dreifuss, former President of the Swiss Confederation     

Barbara Hendricks, Cantatrice, Singer, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador     

Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights     

Robert Badinter, Lawyer, former president of the French Constitutional Court, former French Minister of Justice     

The late Jorge Semprun, Writer     

William Hurt, Actor     

Ken Loach, British Film Director     

Emma Amado, Andrea Kaufmann, Doctors without Borders (MSF)

Antoine Bernard, Isabelle Chebat, Nicolas Agostini, Fédération Internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (FIDH)

Saskia Ditisheim, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) Suisse 

Christiane Dubois, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) Suisse

Sévane Garibian, University of Geneva 

Marie Heuzé, Cartooning for Peace

Michael Ineichen, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)

Leo Kaneman, Honorary President and Founder of the FIFDH

Nicolas Levrat, Global Studies Institute (GSI), Université de Genève

Peter Splinter, Human Rights Consultant 

Gerald Staberock, Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture (OMCT)

Carole Vann, Journaliste indépendante

Daniel Warner, Centre pour le contrôle Démocratique des Forces Armées de l’IHEID (DCAF)