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Islamic Republic of Iran: Execution of German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd
After announced state murder: appeasement costs human lives
Panama: Justice
“This painting reflects my feelings toward justice. Justice is not blind; it is silent, bound and silenced.”
ISHR Human Rights Day 2024 Webinar on “Equality”
Every year on the 10th of December, the World commemorates the Human Rights Day. This day is in honor of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ukraine: Continuous Abductions of People by Russian Army
According to the Ukrainian human rights commissioner, 14,000 civilians have been abducted by the Russian army.
Highlights: ISHR Iraq Section Activities (July–October 2024)
Report on Bringing ISIS to Accountability • Media Engagement on Human Rights Advocacy • International Day of the Disappeared • Child Protection Initiatives etc.
Iraq: ISHR trains women in skilled trades
Ten years after the serious human rights violations committed by IS against the Yazidi minority in Iraq, well over 100,000 Yazidis are still living in the refugee camps.
Lithuania/Belarus: Belarusian refugees in Lithuania in need
These people are threatened with imprisonment in Belarus and with deportation in Lithuania.
Venezuela: Minors treated like violent criminals
The ISHR sharply condemns the increase in violence in Venezuela. Maduro’s regime is making dozens of minors disappear.
Lebanon: The weakest have stayed behind
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has faced aggression from neighboring countries through the so-called M23 rebellion, as well as a range of armed groups.
DR Congo: Plans to lift the moratorium on the execution of the death penalty
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has faced aggression from neighboring countries through the so-called M23 rebellion, as well as a range of armed groups.
Azerbaijan/Nagorno-Karabakh: Lawsuit filed against Baku in The Hague
One year ago, a blitzkrieg-like attack by Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh region led to the expulsion of the entire Christian population.
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.