Strengthen the Office of the Commissioner for Religious Freedom instead of giving it up
Religious freedom and human rights are hallmarks of German foreign and development policy
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Experts: Ethnic minorities face multiple threats
Expert hearing in the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag
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The human rights of threatened people
As President of the ISHR I have been invited to testify on November 28, 2018 in the Human Rights Council of the German Federal Parliament („Deutscher Bundestag“) on „Threatened People“ on November 28, 2018. Having studied ethnology/cultural anthropology among other subjects, this is a topic that has accompanied me all my life.
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Schirrmacher thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”
Thomas Schirrmacher published his speech at the opening of the religious freedom chair at the Gießen School of Theology. In it he thanks Hermann Gröhe for the “most momentous rebuke in all my life”.
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The Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
In the German Parliamentary Society at the Deutsche Bundestag in discussion about peace and reconciliation with the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Simplice Mathieu Sarandji (Mitte), and his chief of cabinet Minister Maxime […]
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The Media creates artificial Conflicts …
“The government artificially creates conflicts in order to argue in public. That's just embarrassing. You really don't have to be surprised about the frustration with politics.” (Hermann Otto Solms)
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From Bonn to Brussels, Rome, Geneva and Vienna on behalf of religious freedom and human rights
When the capital was moved from Bonn to Berlin, I thought that it would be better to move to Berlin for parliamentary work relating to religious freedom and the persecution of Christians. Who would have […]