ISHR NEWS
Your Highness, ‘Fundamental Human Rights’, I kowtow before you
In this short article, I just wish to glorify ‘human rights’ for being part of human life.
The noble profession: Be a law student to become a lawyer – and be called ‘LEARNED’
‘LEARNED’ is not given, it is EARNED. Lawyers earn this. They do. Didn’t they? Does this mean others are not?
Nigeria: Economic stagflation in Nigeria: A threat to citizens’ human rights
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, is currently facing a severe economic crisis known as stagflation.
Gambia: ‘What’s on Gambia’ (WOG): The grand Bantaba, a forum to glorify
This is to express how little I know of my father – I wish to know him more. To write about him.
Africa: Statelessness
When your host country and your country of origin silently look on as the place you call home is demolished.
Africa: Youth-led protests and revolution in Africa: A path to change
Nigeria’s end SARS protests: A youth-led movement for change
Africa: Poisoned Soil, Poisoned Fruits
Can Development Plans Flourish in Africa?
Kenya: Kenya’s Maisha Namba Project
Balancing Digital Innovation with Human Rights Concerns
Kenya: We, the Gen Zs of Kenya
Our Non-Negotiable Demands and Why We will Keep Taking to the Streets
Uganda: The Right to Protest: Where Does Uganda stand?
About a month ago, I wrote an article on social media activism and whether its retreat activism.
Uganda: Xenophobia in Uganda: A silent struggle
What is xenophobia? What causes xenophobia? What is the law on xenophobia relevant to Uganda?
Uganda: Better late than never: A call to action on Uganda’s child labour dilemma
The world recently commemorated the world day against child labour on 12th June and the theme for this year was “Let’s act on our commitments: End Child Labour”
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.
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 in the main building of the University of Freiburg, the President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights stated that “freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of speech are not marginal.
† Marat Zakhidov (1940–2019) – a tireless fighter for human rights worldwide
At the age of 78, Prof. Dr. Marat Zakhidov, Secretary General of the International Council of the ISHR, has left us. It is no coincidence that he died far away from his homeland Uzbekistan, in Jerusalem on one of his many missions.
The President of the ISHR visits the Ukraine
The President of ISHR meets the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Minister of Education in Kiev and Washington
The president of the ISHR recommends the new book of Rudolf Decker about Africa
Here you find my review, in which I as president of the International Council of the International Society of Human Rights (ISHR) recommend the new book of Rudolf Decker about Africa as pioneering.