Nuernberg 16. Juli 2009: SdMR. (Foto: Birgit Fuder/Stadt Nuernberg)

Human Rights Office City of Nuremberg

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Iris Berben, Germany

Actress, former President of the German Film Academy, ambassador for the “Room of Names” in the Holocaust Memorial, holder of the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Wolfgang Kaleck, Germany

German specialist lawyer for criminal law with a focus on international and European criminal law as well as human rights. Since 2007, founder and Secretary General of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, an independent NGO for transnational human rights litigation.

Noa Karavan-Cohen © Izhar Cohen / Noa Caravan

Noa Karavan-Cohen, Israel

Realisation of cultural projects, international conferences and documentary film projects. For 20 years, has been working with her father, Dani Karavan, the creator of the Way of Human Rights, on projects, publications and exhibitions worldwide.

Morten Kjærum, Denmark

Chair of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). From 2008 to 2015 he directed the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FR), based in Vienna, Austria. He is also a former director of the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Prof. Dr. Eva Pils © Humboldt-Stiftung/Elbmotion

Prof. Dr. Eva Pils, Germany

Holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in Human Rights Law at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Member and part of the collegiate directorshop team of the FAU Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg. Interdisciplinary expert on international human rights with a focus on China.

Gladys Acosta Vargas © Tarcila Rivera / Stadt Nürnberg

Gladys Acosta Vargas, Peru

Expert on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAQW) since 2015. She was a representative for UNICEF in Latin America for many years.