Ms. Carina Hägg MP
Parliament:
Swedish Parliament
Political Party:
Social Democratic Party Ms. Hägg has been a member of the Swedish Parliament since 1995. She is a Member of the following: the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men; the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights; the Sub-Committee on Violence against Women (Chairperson); the Sub-Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights; the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (alternate for Mr. Michael Hagberg); and the Sub-Committee on trafficking in human beings (alternate for Mr. Kent Olsson).
Mr. Haibach, Holger MP
Parliament:
German Bundestag
Political Party:
Hochtaunus-Oberlahn Mr. Haibach was born in 1971 in Germany, where he studied Latin, ancient Greek and history, before becoming an assistant at the constituency office of Brigitte Kölsch who was a member of the Land parliament of Hesse at the time. He then became private secretary to the District Commissioner Jürgen Banzer, in 1999.
Mr. Haibach has been a Parliamentarian in the German Bundestag since 2002, where he is a Deputy Member of the Human rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee, as well as the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is the chairman of the working group on economic cooperation and development of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. He is also a member of the subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control, and of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development.
Mr. David Hammerstein
Political Party:
Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance Mr. David Hammerstein is a Spanish politician and a former member of the European Parliament for Los Verdes. A member of the European Greens, Mr. Hammerstein sat on the European Parliament’s committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He was a member of the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly from 2004-2009, and also participated in the Euro-Mediterranean Assembly, and the European Parliament’s delegations to both Israel and Palestine.
Mr. Kelvin Hopkins, MP
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Commons
Political Party:
Labour Party Mr. Hopkins was born in Leicester, the son of Professor Harold Hopkins FRS. He studied at the University of Nottingham, where he was awarded a BA degree in Politics, Economics and Mathematics with Statistics. With the exception of two years as a lecturer at the St Albans FE College (now called Oaklands College) from 1971 he has worked entirely within the trade union movement. Kelvin was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for Luton North and has remained the MP there since. In parliament he served as a member of the broadcasting select committee for two years from 1999, and has been a member of the public administration select committee since 2002. He is a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee. He is also a member of many all-party groups; he is the Secretary of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group, and chairman of the group on further education and lifelong learning.
Mr. George Howarth MP
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Commons
Political Party:
Labour Party Mr. Howarth was first elected to Parliament in a by-election on 13 November 1986 for Knowsley North. In 1997 following boundary changes the seat became Knowsley North and Sefton East. He was elected as a councillor to the Huyton District Council in 1971 and served in its successor,the Knowsley Borough Council, until 1986. During that time Mr. Howarth was chair of the Housing Committee and latterly the Finance Committee. He was also chair of the Knowsley South Constituency Labour Party for four years from 1981. In Parliament Mr. Howarth served as an opposition spokesperson on Environment 1989-1994 and Home Affairs 1994-1997. In 1997 he was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, and then went to the Northern Ireland Office in 1999. Since leaving the Government in 2001 he has served on a number of select committees and is currently a member of the Modernisation Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee. He also chairs the All Party Group on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 and became a member of the Privy Council in 2005.During 2007 and 2008 he was a member of the sentencing commission working group, which was set up following the review of prisons by Lord Carter of Coles.
Mr. Richard Howitt MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament
Political Party:
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament Mr. Howitt is a Labour Member of the European Parliament for the East of England. He is Vice Chair of the Human Rights Sub Committee, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy and is the Labour European Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs. Richard is also a member of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, and was recently a member of the Parliament mission to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, and to monitor the Palestinian Presidential elections.
He was a member of the EU-ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Parliament's Development Committee for nine years, regularly campaigns to raise awareness of Fair Trade issues, and has written a number of parliamentary reports on Europe's relations with developing countries.
Mr. Simon Hughes MP
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Commons
Political Party:
Liberal Democrat Mr. Hughes is the Liberal Democrat MP for Southwark North & Bermondsey and has represented Bermondsey, Blackfriars, Borough, Elephant and Castle, Newington, Rotherhithe and Surrey Docks and parts of Camberwell, Deptford, Kennington, Peckham and Waterloo from 1983 to present. He is President of the Liberal Democrats and sits in the Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
Mr. Ali Huseynov, MP
Parliament:
Milli Mejlis
Political Party:
New Azerbaijan Party Mr. Huseynov was born in Baku in 1968. He was elected twice as member of the National Parliament of Azerbaijan (Milli Mejlis). He is also a member of the Judicial Legal Council as well as the Anti-Corruption Commission at the Governing Council of the Civil Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Mr. Huseynov is the chairman of the Legal Policy and State Building Committee of the Parliament of Azerbaijan and also deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Mr. Huseynov has been working as Counselor and Assistant to the President of the Supreme Court since 1991 and is also an Advisor to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 1995.
Mr. Huseynov graduated from the Baku State University and holds a PhD in Law.
