IHRC Patrons
Lord Avebury, Eric Reginald Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, (29 September 1928 – 14 February 2016) was an English politician. He served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1962 to 1970. He then served in the House of Lords, having inherited the title of Baron Avebury in 1971, until his death.
He was a keen advocate of human rights and the separation of church and state. Eric leaded the parliamentary fact finding mission about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to Pakistan. His findings were later published as a report.
Heiner Bielefeldt (*1958) is Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (since October 2009). Before taking the newly established chair for Human Rights, he was Director of the German Institute for Human Rights (based in Berlin) which is the officially accredited national human rights institution of Germany. Between August 2010 and October 2016 Bielefeldt served as the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief.
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey, FRSA (born 25 December 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since the 2017 general election, having previously been MP for the constituency from 1997 to 2015. He has served as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Harry van Bommel (1962) was a Member of the Dutch parliament from 1998 until 2017 and a prominent member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In this capacity he regularly raised the issue of the persecution of Ahmadiyya muslims in Pakistan.
Roger Kaliff is a swedes politician and a passionate supporter of equal rights for Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan.
Since November 2020 Dennis de Jong is the treasurer of the Dutch Foundation supporting the Refugee work of the Pauluskerk in Rotterdam.
