ISHR NEWS
Pakistan: Police shoot people accused of blasphemy
In the province of Sindh in southeastern Pakistan, two extrajudicial executions have taken place within a week.
Pakistan: Single mother of young children imprisoned under false suspicion
Saima Farhad Gill, 32 years, is a widow and mother of two children. The Christian woman was living an ordinary life as a temporary worker at a health centre.
Afghanistan: Women’s rights fade week by week in Afghanistan
Return to a new liberticidal law
Uganda: Museveni’s Erratic Son
A Foreboding of a Volatile Uganda
Uganda: First, Let’s kill all lawyers
Uganda’s law society elections and their implications on the rule of law in Uganda
The need to develop an autonomous classification of the ‘crime of terrorism’ in international criminal law
‘Whoever is a terrorist for some is a freedom fighter for others’. This adage outlines the contours of a debated in international criminal law.
The balance between legality and justice
Through the example of Paul Watson activism and his arrest
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Archipelago Belarus – post-Stalinist terror, what’s behind the new figures?
Exactly four years after the uprising of the democracy movement in Belarus in 2020, the best-known exile organisation ‘Viasna’ presents its infographic ‘4 Years of Mass Repression’.
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The last memory of my father: Ansumana Jobarteh
This is to express how little I know of my father – I wish to know him more. To write about him.
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.