List of Patrons
At the end of 2004 Board and Jury approved the idea
of creating a list of Patrons and during 2005 the first seven were
approached and agreed to serve as such. Their role is to give support
to the MEA efforts in promotion, media outreach and fundraising.
They are in alphabetical order:
- Theo van Boven – Netherlands, former Director Human Rights
Division of the UN and former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
- Leandro Despouy – President of the Auditoría General
de la Nación Argentina, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence
of judges and lawyers.
- Adama Dieng – Senegal, UN ASG, Registrar Rwanda Tribunal,
former Secretary General of ICJ and first Chairman of the MEF.
- Robert Fulghum – USA, author and human rights supporter.
- Barbara Hendricks – Sweden, classical and jazz singer,
human rights activist, Good will Ambassador for Life to UNHCR
and President of Barbara Hendricks Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation.
- Asma Jahangir – Pakistan, human rights lawyer, UN Special
Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Laureate MEA 1995.
- José Ramos-Horta – Nobel Prize Laureate, Minister for
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of East Timor.
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