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).
Guest lecture on human trafficking at the University of Cologne
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, Thomas Schirrmacher, gave a lecture on “Human Trafficking – The Return of Slavery” in Lecture Hall XII of the University of Cologne at the invitation of the student association ‘campus connect’.
The President of the ISHR meets with human rights defenders in Moldova and in Transnistria
The purpose of the visit was to support Moldovan human rights activists, including the members of the Moldovan Section of the ISHR, as well as on-site study of the state of human rights in the Republic of Moldova, including the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria).
Human Trafficking Experts visit Brick Factory Slaves in Lahore
The President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) and author of the book ‘Human Trafficking’ has sought out brick factories near Lahore, Pakistan where slaves working under the most degrading conditions are producing bricks.