Gabor Rona is the international legal director of Human Rights First. He advises Human Rights First programs on questions of international law and coordinates international human rights litigation. He also represents Human Rights First with governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the media, and the public on matters of international human rights and international humanitarian law. Rona was previously legal advisor in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. At the ICRC he focused on the application of international humanitarian and human rights law in the context of counter-terrorism policies and practices and he represented the ICRC in connection with the establishment of international and other criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court.
 

Gabor Rona (second from the left) with California Western Professors John Noyes (left), James Cooper, and Associate Dean William Aceves.