# 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.

## 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.
The chairperson is FDP MP Renata Alt, her deputy is CDU MP Norbert Altenkamp.
| 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 | Lars Castelucci | Knut Abraham | Sebastian Brehm | Max Luchs * | Misbah Khan | Renata Alt Chair | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff | Jürgen Braun */** | Dietmar Friedhoff | Żaklin Nastić */** | Ali Al-Dailami |
| Fabian Funke | Jan Dieren | Norbert Altenkamp Deputy Chair | Carsten Bodesser | Boris Mijatović ** | Julian Pahlke | Peter Heidt */** | Ulrich Lechte | Martin Sichert | Frank Rinck | | |
| Rainer Keller | Gabriela Heinrich | Michael Brand ** | Franziska Hoppermann | Beate Walter- Rosenheimer | Kassem Taher Saleh | | | | | | |
| Frank Schwabe * | Anke Hennig | Jonas Geisler | Patricia Lips | | | | | | | | |
| Nadja Sthamer | Rasha Nasr | Sabine Weiss * | Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker | | | | | | | | |
| Derya Türk-Nachbaur | Aydan Özoğuz | | | | | | | | | | |
* * 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).
| 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 | Carsten Brodesser | Josephine Ortleb | Lars Castellucci | Michel Brandt * | Christine Buchholz | Margarete Bause */** | Luise Amtsberg | Jürgen Braun *** | Anton Friesen | Peter Heidt * | Lukas Köhler |
| Michael Brand ** | Astrid Damerow | Aydan Özoğuz | Karamba Diaby | Żaklin Nastić ** | Ulla Jelpke | Kai Gehring | Filiz Polat | Waldemar Herdt | Markus Frohnmaier | Gyde Jensen | Alexander Graf Lambsdorff |
| Sebastian Brehm | Michael Kuffer | Frank Schwabe */** | Gabriela Heinrich | | | | | | | | |
| Frank Heinrich * | Katja Leikert | | | | | | | | | | |
| Martin Patzelt | Elisabeth Motschmann | | | | | | | | | | |
| Matthias Zimmer | Tankred Schipanski | | | | | | | | | | |
* * 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

* Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid at the German Bundestag
* Chapter on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's Human Rights Manual (PDF; 3.6 MB)
* Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: Human Rights and Development
* Programme ‘Parliamentarians Protect Parliamentarians’ at the German Bundestag