ISHR Secretary General holds the Tilmann Geske Memorial Lectures 2024
Matthias Böhning reads out a statement from Thomas Paul Schirrmacher, who was unable to attend and will be coming to Basel next year.
Schirrmacher visits former slave prisons in Africa
The ISHR-President and author of several books on the history of slavery, human trafficking and racism, has visited two of the most important historical memorials to the intercontinental slave trade in Africa.
ISHR Exploration Trip
The team meet with German Embassy in Dushanbe
Schirrmacher takes part in the inauguration of the extended Nazi memorial in Brauweiler
In the presence of more than 160 invited guests the newly designed memorial on the grounds of the LVR Cultural Centre Brauweiler has been opened.
Heads of USCIRF and ISHR in Discussion about Antisemitism
Thomas Paul Schirrmacher meets Rabbi Abraham Cooper in Berlin
ISHR President praises human rights defenders
In his closing remarks of the annual general assembly of the German section of the ISHR, Schirrmacher declared, that ISHR mainly exists to protect human rights defenders.
Mortal enmity towards all Jews long before the founding of the state of Israel
Panel discussion in Brauweiler Abbey on anti-Semitism to mark the anniversary of the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945
Statement in the German Federal Parliament on Antisemitism
Answer on a question about antisemitism by the President of the International Society for Human Rights, Prof. Dr. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher.
ISHR President meets the Ambassador of El Salvador in Berlin
In preparation for a Central America tour in September that includes El Salvador, Schirrmacher visited H. E. Florencia E. Villanova de von Oehsen in Berlin.
Religious dialogue is essential to protect human rights
Schirrmacher spoke at the hearing of the Committee on Human Rights on the German Federal Government’s third report on the global situation of religious freedom.
ISHR President calls for protecting and enforcing religious freedom
Our S.G in Kenya for the UNEA-6 conference and meeting with the ISHR Regional Representative on talks and activities for Women´s Day.
ISHR President calls for protecting and enforcing religious freedom
Prof. Thomas Schirrmacher makes an appeal to German political decision-makers on the occasion of the presentation of the Yearbooks for Religious Freedom
Matthias Boehning speaks in front of the Federal Chancellery
The Secretary General of the ISHR, Matthias Boehning, speaks in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin and demands protection for the Armenian people.
Morocco: ISHR Leadership at Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference
“Working together for our common future” – this was the title of the Parliamentary Conference on Interfaith Dialogue in which Professor Thomas Schirrmacher and Matthias Boehning, ISHR Secretary General, participated from 13–15 June 2023 in Morocco.
Germany: ISHR International Council Elects New Leaders at Recent Meeting
The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) recently held its International Council Meeting on April 24th, 2023, where the organization elected its new governing council.
ISHR Global: Secretary General address on forced labor in the global supply chains
We at the ISHR pride ourselves in knowledge sharing as a tool for advocacy. These series will enable us connect with key actors in the human rights ecosystem.
Febuary 2023: “President and S.G Tour”
First African Tour 2023 and Second International visit of the year 2023.
January 2023: “Prison Fellowship Guatemala”
Thomas Schirrmacher´s first international visit of the year 2023.
Schirrmacher and Böhning met Gerd Müller
The President and the Secretary General of the ISHR met with the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
ISHR Secretary General met Germany’s foreign minister
ISHR Secretary General Matthias Boehning had the chance to briefly talk with Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, at COP27.
For democracy and freedom in Belarus
Looking back: A year ago, Thomas Schirrmacher spoke together with top politicians at large-scale demonstration in Frankfurts historic center
Schirrmacher and Böhning visited Ukrainian refugees
Thomas Schirrmacher and Matthias Böhning visited Ukrainian refugee centers of ISHR, “Our House” and Caritas in Vilnius
Schirrmacher met the Ambassador of Kiribati to the UN & USA
Thomas Schirrmacher and Matthias Böhning met the Ambassador of Kiribati to the UN and USA, Teburoro Tito
Schirrmacher met Ambassador Satyendra Prasad
Thomas Schirrmacher and Matthias Böhning met the Ambassador of Fiji to the UN as Chair of Pacific Small States