The Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid has been a permanent Bundestag committee since its establishment in 1998.
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.[1]
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.[2]
The chairperson is FDP MP Renata Alt, her deputy is CDU MP Norbert Altenkamp.
| Heike Engelhardt | Lars Castelucci | Knut Abraham | Sebastian Brehm | Max Luchs * | Misbah Khan | Renata AltChair | Alexander GrafLambsdorff | Jürgen Braun */** | Dietmar Friedhoff | Żaklin Nastić */** | Ali Al-Dailami | |
| Fabian Funke | Jan Dieren | Norbert AltenkampDeputy Chair | Carsten Bodesser | Boris Mijatović ** | Julian Pahlke | Peter Heidt */** | Ulrich Lechte | Martin Sichert | Frank Rinck | |||
| Rainer Keller | Gabriela Heinrich | Michael Brand ** | FranziskaHoppermann | Beate Walter-Rosenheimer | Kassem Taher Saleh | |||||||
| Frank Schwabe * | Anke Hennig | Jonas Geisler | Patricia Lips | |||||||||
| Nadja Sthamer | Rasha Nasr | Sabine Weiss * | ElisabethWinkelmeier-Becker | |||||||||
| DeryaTürk-Nachbaur | Aydan Özoğuz |
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).[3]
| Norbert Altenkamp | Carsten Brodesser | Josephine Ortleb | Lars Castellucci | Michel Brandt * | Christine Buchholz | MargareteBause */** | 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 | ElisabethMotschmann | |||||||||||
| Matthias Zimmer | Tankred Schipanski |