Professor emeritus of international Law at the University
of Maastricht; former UN-Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture; former Director of the UN-Division for Human Rights; former Acting Registrar of the “International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”
Professor of History and Political Science; former member of the Indian Senate; former leader of the Indian Delegation at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva
Professor of Law; Member of the UN Human Rights Committee; Member of the Constitutional Court of Benin and President of the Institute for Human Rights and Promotion of Democracy; UN-Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Intolerance (till 2002); he contributed as an expert to the draft of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights;
Former President of the Czech Republic; Co-founder of the Civil Rights Movement Charta 77
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany; former Chairman of the Working Committee for a European Charter of Fundamental Rights; former President of the Federal German Constitutional Court
Lawyer; Honorary President of the »Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme« (F.I.D.H.)
Lawyer; former UN-Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
Internationally highly reputed artist who created the “Way of Human Rights” in Nuremberg in 1993
Then Director-General of the UNESCO; former Japanese Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador
Then President of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights in Argentina; former President of the World Council of Churches
Then Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg; September 2005 he died unexpectedly
Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg
