Clément Voule

Clément Nyaletsossi Voule is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association from 2018 to April this year. He is a jurist and human rights defender with over 30 years of experience promoting human rights in Africa and across the world. He was an Expert Member of the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights from 2011 to 2020. He also is a senior researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Prior to his appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to peaceful assembly and association, he was Advocacy Director for Africa at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), where he also led ISHR’s programme to support human rights defenders working in States in transition. He served as Secretary-general of Amnesty International Togo (2000 – 2006).