1995 - 2000

Prof. Dr. Theo van Boven, Netherlands

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”

Václav Havel, Czech Republic

Then President of the Czech Republic; Co-founder of the Civil Rights Movement Charta 77

Maître Daniel Jacoby, France

Lawyer; Honorary President of the “Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme” (F.I.D.H.)

Asma Jahangir, Pakistan

Lawyer; former UN-Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; former Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

Dani Karavan, Israel

Artist who created the “Way of Human Rights” in Nuremberg

Prof. Dr. Federico Mayor, France

Then Director-General of the UNESCO

Prof. Dr. José Míguez Bonino, Argentina

Former President of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights in Argentina
former President of the World Council of Churches

Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker, Germany

Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Peter Schönlein, Germany (till 1996)

then Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg

Ludwig Scholz, Germany (from 1996)

Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg; September 2005 he died unexpectedly