Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
The Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid has been a permanent Bundestag committee since its establishment in 1998.
Tasks
The Bundestag Committee is dedicated to human dignity and human rights. Its agenda includes correcting domestic violations, safeguarding human rights in the fight against international terrorism, prevention through humanitarian aid and working on national, European and international instruments for the protection of human rights. To this end, the committee regularly works together with non-governmental organisations. With the ‘Parliamentarians Protect Parliamentarians’ programme, Member of parliament support threatened parliamentarians and human rights defenders in other countries.{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Bundestag - Ausschuss für Menschenrechte und humanitäre Hilfe |url=https://www.bundestag.de/menschenrechte |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=Deutscher Bundestag |language=de}}
Members in the 20th legislative period
The 19 members of the committee in the 20th legislative period consist of six members of the SPD parliamentary group, five members of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, three members of the Green Party faction, two members each of the FDP parliamentary group and the AfD parliamentary group and one member of the Left Party parliamentary group.{{Cite web |title=Ausschuss für Menschenrechte und humanitäre Hilfe {{!}} abgeordnetenwatch.de |url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/bundestag/20/ausschuesse/ausschuss-fuer-menschenrechte-und-humanitaere-hilfe |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de |language=de}}
The chairperson is FDP MP Renata Alt, her deputy is CDU MP Norbert Altenkamp.
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|+ !SPD – full member !SPD – deputy member !CDU/CSU – full member !CDU/CSU – deputy member !Green Party faction – full member !Green Party faction – deputy member !FDP – full member !FDP – deputy member !AfD – full member !AfD – deputy member !Left Party – full member !Left Party – deputy member |
| Heike Engelhardt
|Max Luchs * Chair |Jürgen Braun */** |Żaklin Nastić */** |
| Fabian Funke
Deputy Chair |Boris Mijatović ** |Peter Heidt */** | | |
| Rainer Keller
|Michael Brand ** | | | | | | |
| Frank Schwabe *
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| Nadja Sthamer
|Sabine Weiss * | | | | | | | | |
| Derya
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- * Representatives
- ** Speaker
Members in the 19th legislative period
The 17 members of the committee in the 19th legislative period consisted of six members of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, three members of the SPD parliamentary group and two members each of the Left Party parliamentary group, the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group, the AfD parliamentary group and the FDP parliamentary group.
The chairperson was Gyde Jensen (FDP).{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Bundestag - Ausschuss für Menschenrechte und humanitäre Hilfe |url=https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/Ausschuesse/ausschuesse19/a17_menschenrechte |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=Deutscher Bundestag |language=de}}
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|+ !CDU/CSU – full member !CDU/CSU – deputy member !SPD – full member !SPD – deputy member !Left Party – full member !Left Party – deputy member !Green Party faction – full member !Green Party faction – deputy member !AfD – full member !AfD – deputy member !FDP – full member !FDP – deputy member |
| Norbert Altenkamp |
| Michael Brand **
|Żaklin Nastić ** |
| Sebastian Brehm
|Frank Schwabe */** | | | | | | | | |
| Frank Heinrich *
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| Martin Patzelt
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| Matthias Zimmer
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- * Representatives
- ** Speaker
- *** Deputy Chair
Committee chairs
- 1998–2001 Claudia Roth (Green Party faction)
- 2001–2005 Christa Nickels (Green Party faction)
- 2005–2009 Herta Däubler-Gmelin (SPD)
- 2009–2013 Tom Koenigs (Green Party faction)
- 2013–2017 Michael Brand (CDU/CSU)
- 2017–2018 Matthias Zimmer (CDU/CSU)
- 2018–2021 Gyde Jensen (FDP)
- since 2021 Renata Alt (FDP)
Weblinks
- [https://www.bundestag.de/menschenrechte Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid at the German Bundestag]
- [https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/11481.pdf Chapter on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's Human Rights Manual (PDF; 3.6 MB)]
- [https://www.bmz.de/de/themen/menschenrechte-und-entwicklung Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: Human Rights and Development]
- [https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/Ausschuesse/ausschuesse18/a17/275174-275174 Programme ‘Parliamentarians Protect Parliamentarians’ at the German Bundestag]