Elodie Tranchez is an international human rights lawyer and academic with a PhD, specialising in strategic litigation before UN human rights mechanisms. She teaches human rights law and public international law, inter alia.
Elodie Tranchez has been actively involved in coordinating and contributing to the litigation and advocacy efforts around the Chagos Archipelago dispute, following the 2025 UK–Mauritius Agreement concerning the future of the territory. In this context, she coordinated the litigation campaign of several Chagossian groups before UN human rights mechanisms after the 2025 agreement was signed.
This included work related to an urgent appeal that led to a significant decision by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in December 2025 (Decision 1 (2025)). The CERD decision found that aspects of the UK–Mauritius agreement were inconsistent with human rights parameters of decolonisation, and called inter alia on both States to suspend ratification of the agreement and consult the Chagossian community meaningfully. and started campaigning for the Chagossian community in 1995 till now.