Théo Van Boven was the representative of The Netherlands to the UN Commission on Human Rights, then Director of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations from 1977 to 1982. He presently teaches law at the University of Limbourg. Pierre Vidal Naquet , historian, militant against torture and against the Algerian War, specialist in Greek history, has also directed numerous works on modern and contemporary history, and taught the sociology of ancient Greece at the French School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.