ISHR NEWS
Here you will find the latest on human rights topics and events from the worldwide network of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), as well as the ‘ISHR Newsletter’. Photo: UN Photo/Marie Frenchon
Women are Victims of the Taliban and the Iranian Government
MENA: From Kabul to Tehran, women are victims of the extremist views of the Taliban and the Iranian Government
Pakistan: Patras Masih Released from Custody on Bail
On February 22, 2018, Patras was taken to the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA), which is responsible for cybercrime.
ISHR Latvia – Humanitarian help is sorely needed at 22% inflation
In early Sunday morning on 6th November, 2022, ISHR Latvian Section received 106th Humanitarian aid transport from IGFM Wittlich working group. It came after a longer break and is much needed by people here.
Afghanistan – Human Rights in a Lawless Society
“Where there is no common power, there is no law”. Thomas Hobbes
IGFM: Holodomor – killing by starvation – must not happen again
IGFM appeals to all those who are not necessarily dependent on the German government's subsidies to donate to organisations like IGFM that provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Afghanistan: The Forgotten Religious and Ethnic Minorities
Hindus and Sikhs are non-Muslim minorities in Afghanistan. Still, there is no specific narrative about the origin of these minorities in the country. But, these communities have lived in Afghanistan for centuries.
Iran: Public statement
Public statement of a group of Latin American Women regarding the death of the Iranian protester Masha Amini
Twitter Spaces: Knowledge Sharing Series – African Human Rights Day
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.
Women are victims of the Taliban and the Iranian Government
MENA: From Kabul to Tehran, women are victims of the extremist views of the Taliban and the Iranian Government
ISHR Newsletter • September 2022
The ongoing war in Ukraine has continued to keep Europe and the world on tenterhooks in recent weeks. There is work to be done on all fronts.
Twitter Spaces: Knowledge Sharing Series
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.
Africa: Are African Youths being Apathetic to Politics?
Alex Martin Musiime about the youth in Africa
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.
The International Society for Human Rights thanks the Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Cuba for its Great Courage
The president of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) has thanked the Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Cuba for demonstrating increasing courage in issues relating to human rights and that he has met with the ‘Ladies in White’.
Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights: Expert Discussion at the IGFM
Upon request of the German Foundation for Legal Cooperation (IRZ) on behalf of the Federal Government, an expert discussion about human rights was held on the premises of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) in Frankfurt, with an eight-member delegation of the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights (VIMR), which was sent by their government.
The President of ISHR meets the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Minister of Education in Kiev and Washington
Prof. Dr. phil. h.c. Moritz Hunzinger, together with Prof. Igor Vetrov, and the dean, Prof. Vladimir Evtukh, former minister and ambassador, visited the Christmas reception, which was organized by His Holiness, the Patriarch of Kiev and All Russia-Ukraine Filaret.
Schirrmacher thanks 40.000 Ahmadiyya Muslims for the Engagement for Religious Freedom
The president of the International Council of the ISHR and Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF), Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, thanked the 40.000 participants of the Ahmadiyya Jalsa Salana in Karlsruhe for not only enjoying religious freedom in Germany after having fled death threats in Pakistan, but in turn loud and insisting called for religious freedom and against any violence or compulsion in religion.
“Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Conscience, and Freedom of Speech as the Heart of our Democracy”
In a lecture in the Horst Weizmann lecture hall i