Secretary General:     Karel Nowak

Honorary Committee

President:    Mrs Mary Robinson    Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland, USA

Members:

Abdelfattah AMOR    President of the UN Committee on Human Rights, Tunisia
Jean BAUBÉROT     President of Honor of the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne, holder of the chair of History and Sociology of the secular state, EPHE, Paris, France
Beverly B. BEACH    Former emeritus secretary general of the International Religious Liberty Association, USA
François BELLANGER    University professor, Switzerland
Olivier CLÉMENT    University professor, author, France
Alberto DE LA HERA    University professor, chief executive officer for Religious Affairs, Minister of Justice, Spain
Silvio FERRARI    University professor, Italy
Alain GARAY    Lawyer at the Court of Paris and researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille, France
Humberto LAGOS    University professor, author, Chili
Adam LOPATKA    Former first president at the Supreme Court, Poland
Francesco MARGIOTTA BROGLIO    Department of Studies on the State, university professor, president of the Italian Commission for religious liberty, representative of Italy with UNESCO
Mrs Rosa Maria MARTINEZ DE CODES   University professor, Spain
Jorge MIRANDA    University professor, Portugal
Raghunandan Swarup PATHAK    Former president at the Supreme Court, India, and former judge at the international Court of justice
Émile POULAT    University professor, director of research, CNRS, France
Jacques ROBERT    University professor, former member of the Constitutional Council, France
Jean ROCHE    Member, Institut, France
Joaquin RUIZ-GIMENEZ    University professor, former minister, president of UNICEF, Spain
Mrs Antoinette SPAAK    Senior minister, Belgium
Mohammed TALBI    University professor, Tunisia
Rik TORFS    University professor, Belgium
Gheorghe VLADUTESCU    University professor, vice-president of the Romanian Academy, former secretary of State for Religious Affairs, Romania

 

Former Presidents of the Honorary Committee

Mrs Franklin ROOSEVELT       1946 to 1962

Dr Albert SCHWEITZER         1962 to 1965

Paul Henri SPAAK                 1966 to 1972

René CASSIN                       1972 to 1976

Edgar FAURE                        1976 to 1988   

Léopold Sédar SENGHOR       1988 to 2001