Mr. Douglas A. Johnson: “New tactics in human rights: a major global human rights initiative with a special look at emerging tactics in protecting and supporting victims of human rights abuses”

Image Mr. Douglas A. Johnson presenting the ICC-OTP Guest Lecture at the interim seat of the Court on 24 March 2005.

Mr. Johnson is Executive Director of the Center for Victims of Torture (Minneapolis, USA) since 1988. Prior to joining the Center, Mr. Johnson served as a consultant on strategic planning to human rights organizations in Latin America, as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Health Organization, and as director of the Third World Institute of the Newman Center. He was an original member of the OSCE Advisory Panel on the Prevention of Torture and continues to serve on the panel.  

In the 1970s, Mr. Johnson chaired the Infant Formula Action Coalition which launched a boycott against the world’s largest food corporation, Nestle, to force it to change its marketing practices. 

Mr. Johnson holds a Masters Degree in Public and Private Management (MPPM) from the School of Organization and Management at Yale University. He was an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. and Fellow of the Albert Einstein Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has received the Twin Cities International Citizen Award (1999), the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award (1982) and the Archbishop John Ireland Award for Distinguished Service to Justice (1981).