IIRF and ISHR leadership involved in Faith & Freedom Summit IV in the Latin American Parliament
The fourth Faith & Freedom Summit focusing on FoRB took place under the title “Practicing What We Preach” in the Latin American Parliament in Panama City.
ISHR President speaks in the Italian parliament on Interreligious Dialogue
Schirrmacher publishes his speech at the Second Parliamentary Conference on Interreligious Dialogue of the IPU
SG Participates in Letter-Writing Workshop for Ukrainian Civilian Prisoners in Berlin
On 27 May, the ISHR Secretary General participated in a letter-writing workshop in Berlin, co-organised by ISHR and the human rights organisation Libereco.
Schirrmacher congratulates Joachim Gauck
IGFM/ISHR congratulates former Federal President Joachim Gauck on being awarded the Hermann Ehlers Medal
Schirrmacher thanks Liberian Acting Interior Minister
The President of ISHR thanked the Hon. Samuel F. Today for his spontaneous and enormous help to the Liberian refugees displaced from the refugee camp in Buduburam.
ISHR Secretary visited the office of the IGFM in Frankfurt
On Thursday, 8 May 2025, ISHR Secretary General Matthias K. Boehning visited the office of the German section of the ISHR in Frankfurt.
The ISHR bids farewell to former international Treasurer Henriette Baroness de Payrebrune
The former Treasurer of ISHR Henriette Baroness de Payrebrune, died suddenly on Easter Monday at the age of 83.
The President of the ISHR adds personal words to Vladimir Novitsky
In addition to the obituary of the ISHR and its German Section to Vladimir Mikhailovich Novitsky, Thomas Schirrmacher today made a personal statement.
Strengthen the Office of the Commissioner for Religious Freedom instead of giving it up
Religious freedom and human rights are hallmarks of German foreign and development policy
Schirrmacher and Böhning are grateful for the conversations in Cape Verde
In Cape Verde, ISHR leaders met with President, Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, and other top leaders
ISHR Leadership Visits Apostolic Nuncio in Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
After visiting the Government and Parliament of Cape Verde the leadership of the ISHR visited the Apostolic Nuncio for Senegal, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
ISHR leader praises Cape Verde as model of Democracy and Human Rights
The president of the ISHR expressed “pride” on January 14, in noting that Cape Verde has a “strong parliamentary democracy.”
Schirrmacher and Boehning on an ISHR-Panama Exploration Mission
From a report by the Secretary General of the ISHR Matthias Boehning
How Freedom of Religion or Belief Can Help Prevent the Misuse of Religion and Build Social Cohesion and Resilience
Thomas Paul Schirrmacher and Janet Epp-Buckingham represent the IIRF at the International Religious Freedom Roundtable in Berlin
ISHR Secretary General joins the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights
On Friday, 13 December 2024, Matthias Boehning attended the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights for the first time as a newly elected member of the Board.
“There is practically no socially relevant topic that does not play a role in religious freedom”
Yearbooks ‘Religious Freedom 2024’ and ‘Persecution and Discrimination against Christians 2024’ presented in Berlin
Exploration mission to Tajikistan by ISHR President and Secretary General
On 11 and 12 July Thomas Schirrmacher and General Matthias Boehning visited Tajikistan for an exploration mission focused on the state of human rights.
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