 Already since 2005, she also been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges ("Wahlausschuss"), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.In addition, Künast serves on the board of trustees of the Berlin-based "AIDS-Hilfe" (AIDS-Help) group, and is an honorary member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the Angelo Roncalli Committee within that organization.In 2010, Künast criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for speaking at an award ceremony for Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in Potsdam, arguing that while it was true that the right to freedom of expression also applies to Westergaard's controversial Muhammad cartoons "if a chancellor also makes a speech on top of that, it serves to heat up the debate."