Hélène Tigroudja

Prof. Dr. Hélène Tigroudja (LinkedIn) is Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France) and Visiting Professor of Public International Law at CIL – NUS (Singapore). Since 2019, she has served as an Independent Expert of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in charge of the supervision of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In 2025, she was elected Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee and Rapporteur of the General Comment No. 38 on the Freedom of Association (Article 22 of the ICCPR). For several years, she has also served as lead expert for UNESCO missions on Protection of the Safety of Journalists and the Role of the Judiciary. She is the co-Director of the Masters 2 Humanitarian Action and Law and co-director of the Legal Clinic of Human Rights (Aix-Global Justice). She publishes extensively in public international law and international human rights law. In this regard, she recently published her collected Course at the Hague Academy of International Law on “Armed Conflicts and International Human Rights Law” (Brill, 2025) and she co-authored International Rights Law – A Treatise published by Cambridge University Press (2025).

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