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
Thomas Schirrmacher visited the grave of Elisabeth Schiemann
The president of the ISHR visited the grave of Elisabeth Schiemann, who spoke out against National Socialism and was a “Righteous Among the Nations”
May 2022: Thomas Schirrmacher visits Stockholm
The ISHR President, Thomas Schirrmacher, and the ISHR General Secretary, Matthias Böhning, visited Sweden and had many meetings.
May 2022: Thomas Schirrmacher met the head of UN Volunteers
The President of the ISHR, Thomas Schirrmacher, and the ISHR Secretary General, Matthias Böhning, met Tony Kurbanov, Executive Coordinator of UN VOLUNTEERS.
April 2022: Meeting with the Secretary General of the UN
Thomas Schirrmacher visited the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York
April 2022: Meeting the President of the Estonian Parliament
Thomas Schirrmacher visited the President of the Estonian Parliament to inform himself about the effect, the war against the Ukraine has on Estonia.
March 2022: ISHR Baltic State visit
Thomas Schirrmacher starts his first day of the Baltic States trip in Vilnius, Lithuania with a meeting with Jurgita Samoskiene and Olga Karach.
January 2022: Thomas Schirrmacher visits the Lieutenant Governor of Bonaire
Thomas Schirrmacher visited the Lieutenant Governor of Bonaire, Edison Enrique Rijna. Bonaire is located close to the coast of Venezuela.
Cottbus Declaration on GDR Forced Labor of September 13, 2020: “Serious injustice has been done to these people”
The Union of Victims’ Associations of Communist Tyranny, the Human Rights Center Cottbus, the International Society for Human Rights and the Memorial Foundation Victims of Communism organized a tribunal on “Forced Labor in Political Prison in the GDR”.
Global Evangelical and Muslim organizations launch major joint religious freedom project
Leaders from the world’s largest independent Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization are beginning a joint effort to respond globally to threats to religious freedom coming from religious extremism and secular extremism.
Schirrmacher visits Memorial Hall in Nanjing
The President of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, visited the Memorial Hall for the victims of the Massacre of the Japanese invaders 1937/1938 in Nanjing (China).