The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is honoured to announce the election of Justice Michèle Rivet to the position of ICJ Vice-President.

Justice Rivet has been an ICJ Commissioner since 2003. From 1990 - 2010 she served as President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.

The ICJ is also delighted to announce the election of three Commissioners to the ICJ Executive Committee.

Ms. Karinna Moskalenko (Russia) has been elected for a second term to the ICJ Executive Committee. Ms. Moskalenko is a Russian lawyer who has litigated many influential cases against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee.

Professor Leila Zerrougi (Algeria) has been elected for a second term to the ICJ Executive Committee. Professor Zerrougi is a former Vice-President of the ICJ. She is a former Professor of Law at the "Institut National de la Magistrature" in Algeria and the former Chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Ms. Imrana Jalal (Fiji) has been appointed as a member of the ICJ Executive Committee for the first time and been re-elected as a Commissioner for a second term. Ms. Jalal is a Fijian human rights lawyer and currently a Senior Gender Advisor with the Asian Development Bank.

Along with Ms. Jalal, two other Commissioners have also been re-elected.

Justice John Dowd (Australia) has been re-elected as a Commissioner for a third term. Between 1994 and 2004, Justice Dowd served as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He is currently President of the ICJ's National Section in Australia.

Professor Vitit Muntarborn (Thailand) has been re-elected as a Commissioner for a second term. He is a Professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and is currently Co-Chair of the Civil Society Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism.

Further biographical information is available at www.icj.org.

The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. The Commission was founded in Berlin in 1952 and its membership is composed of up to sixty eminent jurists who are representatives of the different legal systems of the world. Based in Geneva, the International Secretariat is responsible for the realisation of the aims and objectives of the Commission.