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A. Kayum Ahmed is the Division Director for Access & Accountability at the Public Health Program (PHP) in New York where he leads PHP's global work on access to medicines and innovation. He also teaches a class on socioeconomic rights as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Law School. Kayum holds a Ph.D. in international and comparative education from Columbia University, various degrees in law from the University of Oxford (MS.t), Leiden University (LL.M.), and the University of Cape Town (LL.B.), as well as degrees in anthropology (M.A.) and theology (B.A. Hons.).
Payam Akhavan S.J.D. LL.M. (Harvard) is Full Professor of International Law at McGill University, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and former Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1994-2000). He served as advisor to the Committee for the Recognition of the Genocide against Yazidi Kurds and Other Religious and Ethnic Minorities of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq.
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat is Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on theoretical and empirical questions related to human rights, with an emphasis on women's rights. She is the Founding President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Her publications include numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as authored, edited, and co-edited books, including: Democracy and Human Rights in Developing Countries (1991); Deconstructing Images of "The Turkish Woman," (1998); Non-state Actors in the Human Rights Universe (2006); Human Rights Worldwide (2006); Human Rights in Turkey (2007); and The Uses and Misuses of Human Rights (2014).
Sareta Ashraph, LL.M. (Harvard) B.A. (Hons) (Oxford) is an international criminal barrister, with particular expertise in gender and genocide. As Chief Legal Analyst of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria (2012-2016), she drafted the June 2016 report which determined ISIL was committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis. In 2019, she was UNITAD's Senior Analyst examining ISIL crimes in Iraq. She continues to work with Yazidi and other communities in northern Iraq seeking justice for ISIL crimes.
Barzan Barzani Ph.D. (Symbiosis) is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Faculty of Law and primarily responsible for conducting the field survey among Yazidi survivors in Iraq that is detailed in this article and its data analysis.
Keeley Gogul earned her M.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati in May 2019 and is currently a first-year law student at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. [End Page 299]
Charles P. Henry is professor emeritus of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six-year term. Former president of the National Council for Black Studies, Henry is the author/editor of nine books and more than 80 articles and reviews on Black politics, public policy, and human rights. Before joining the University of California at Berkeley in 1981, Henry taught at Denison University and Howard University. Henry was chair of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA from 1986 to 1988 and served on AI's International Executive Committee from 1989-91. He was an office director in the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1993-4, and is a former NEH Post-doctoral Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Professor Henry was Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History and Politics at the University of Bologna, Italy for the spring semester of 2003. In the fall of 2006, Henry was one of the first two Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chairs in France teaching at the University of Tours. Chancellor Birgeneau presented Henry with the Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in April 2008. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Denison.
Nicola Jägers holds the Chair International Human Rights Law at the Law School of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Nicola is also a Commissioner at...
