Andrew Flower
Former Zimbabwean Test cricketer, whose black-armband protest at the 2003 Cricket World Cup cost him his place in the Zimbabwe cricket team.

Sir Bob Geldof
Musician, and campaigner for human rights in Africa. Responsible for the Live Aid concert in 1985 which did much to highlight suffering in Africa. Outspoken critic of western policy towards Africa. Recently appointed as a member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa.

Justice Richard J Goldstone
Judge of South Africa's Constitutional Court 1995 - 2003. First chief prosecutor for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Recently appointed by the Secretary-General of the U.N. as a member of 3 person enquiry into the Iraqi Oil for Fund Program.

Sabrina Guinness
Campaigner for youth education.

Lord Joffe CBE
Human rights lawyer and cross bench peer. Represented Nelson Mandela in the 1960s treason trial. Chair of Oxfam up to 2001.

Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC
Professor of Public Law at University College London, Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. Vice President of the Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy Through Law (The Venice Commission). Constitutional law expert.

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
Human rights lawyer. Chair of the British Council.

Moeletsi Mbeki
Former head of communications at the Congress of S.A. Trade Unions (Cosatu). Outspoken critic of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.

Henry Olonga
Former Zimbabwean Test cricketer, whose black-armband protest at the 2003 Cricket World Cup cost him his place in the Zimbabwe cricket team.

Baroness Park of Monmouth
Eminent former UK Diplomat. Former Principal of Somerville College, Oxford and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.

Lord Steel of Aikwood
Former leader of the British Liberal Democratic Party and former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.

Wole Soyinka
Nigerian - born playwright and author. Nobel Literature Prize laureate.

Vaclav Havel
Former president of the Czech Republic and playwright.

Mark Muller
Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC), Chair of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP). and a director of the environmental NGO Protimos