EUROPE
The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) is represented throughout Eastern and Western Europe, which primarily address issues related to violations of civil and political rights at home and abroad. The ISHR headquarters are located in Germany, and the German section carries out human rights work for ten different target countries worldwide.
Updates
Swiss Human Rights Award
The Corona pandemic has affected the lives of many people. However, the Corona pandemic has also affected the International Society for Human Rights - Swiss Section (IGFM-CH). For the first time in decades, the Swiss Human Rights Award could not be presented in 2020. The awarding of the prize to the already chosen laureate had to be postponed to 2021. However, the board of IGFM-CH has now decided to award a special prize. The prize is to go to an organization that has been particularly active in preserving human rights during the Corona pandemic.
THESE PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED GREATEST INJUSTICE
On 13 Sep. 2020, the Tribunal on “Forced Labor in Political Custody in the GDR”, organized by the Union of Victims Associations of Communist Tyranny (UOKG) in cooperation with the Human Rights Center Cottbus, the ISHR and the Memorial Foundation Victims of Comunism (VIC), came to an end.
Disregard for the presumption of innocence in Ukraine
Even among high dignitaries in Ukraine: The Office of the Prosecutor General and the State Bureau of Investigation allow themselves to say that they seized a terrorist or a murderer even before the court’s decision. ISHR-represantative Anastasya Alekseyeva in interview:
Corona, the World and Human Rights
Human rights activists of the International Society for Human Rights/ISHR have already expressed their concern at the beginning of the massive measures that the remedy against the pandemic could prove to be worse than the pandemic itself.
Corona in Germany
At the end of December news came from China, that a new type of a deadly virus had developed there. With horror, I texted this news to my children, in my head scenes from American pandemic disaster movies.
ISHR Annual General Meeting from 13th–15th March 2020
Dear friends, the annual conference is the central event of the ISHR, where members, friends, sponsors and interested parties meet and exchange information . Please support us by your numerous participation!