Once a year, we come together with members, partners, human rights activists, friends and interested parties from all over the world.
We are in contact with people around the world who are involved in humanitarian aid and specific human rights work.
Together, we are committed to upholding human dignity and the inviolability of universal human rights.
This year, we want to focus on the strength of courageous people who fight against totalitarian structures. On Sunday, we will hold our General Assembly, to which we invite all IGFM members.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Date: March 29/30, 2025
Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut
Langer Grabenweg 68
53175 Bonn
Gabrielius Landsbergis
Former Foreign Minister of Lithuania
Leanid Marozau
Legal Advisor- on behalf of – Svitlana Tikhanovskaya, President-elect of Belarus
Igor Eidman
Forum of Russian-speaking Europeans
Naïla Chikhi
Expert on women’s rights and Islamism
Michael Gahler
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament
Detlef Seif MdB
Member of the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag
Anton Aleksejew
IGFM Ukraine (IAC-ISHR)
Dr. Lew Ponomarjow
Sakharov Institute, Paris
Co-founder of Memorial
Dr. Nabil Antaki
Blue Marists, Aleppo
Karzan Noori,
Barzani Foundation
Liusiena Zinovkina,
Activist and wife of abducted civilian Kostiantyn Zinovkin
Nedim Türfent,
Kurdish journalist
Sajid Christopher,
President of the Human Friends Organisation (HFO) Lahore, Pakistan
Conference program 2025
Saturday, March 29, 2025
11:00 a.m. Arrival, registration, snack
12:00 p.m. Welcome by Edgar Lamm (Chairman of the IGFM)
12:15 p.m. Presentations on the conference topic
Igor Eidman (Forum of Russian-speaking Europeans)
Leanid Marozau (Legal Advisor, representing Svitlana Tikhanovskaya, elected President of Belarus)
Naïla Chikhi (expert on women’s rights and Islamism)
Gabrielius Landsbergis (former Foreign Minister of Lithuania)
Michael Gahler, Member of Federal Government (Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament)
2:30 p.m. Greetings
Detlef Seif, MdB (Member of the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag)
Archbishop Maurice Hamsikh (from El-Jazeera and El-Hasakah, Al-Hasakah, Syria)
Nasrin Sotoudeh (Human rights lawyer in the Islamic Republic of Iran)
Kanaan Al-Khailany (Member of the Erbil City Council, Kurdistan)
2:45 p.m. Coffee break, pastries
3:00 p.m. Country reports (Chair: RA Carmen Jondral-Schuler)
Ukraine: Anton Aleksejew (Head of the Ukrainian section of the IGFM)
Ukraine: Liusiena Zinovkina (Activist and wife of the abducted civilian Kostiantyn Zinovkin)
Russia: Dr. Lev Ponomaryov (Sakharov Institute, Paris and co-founder of Memorial)
Syria: Dr. Nabil Antaki (Blue Marists, Aleppo)
Iraq: Karzan Noori (Barzani Charity Foundation)
Pakistan: Sajid Christopher (President Human Friends Organization (HFO), Lahore, Pakistan)
Turkey: Nedim Türfent (Journalist and former political prisoner)
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Presentation of the IGFM Media Prize to Iman Sefati (BILD newspaper, laudatory speech by Michael Leh)
8:00 p.m. Presentation of the Stephanus Prize of the Stephanus Foundation for Persecuted Christians
Sunday, March 30, 2025
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. General Assembly chaired by Edgar Lamm (separate agenda)
11:45 a.m. Brief report International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) (Matthias Böhning, Secretary General)
12:00 p.m. Further greetings / video messages
Brief report by the Working Committee on Religious Freedom (Heinz Ernst)
12:30 p.m. Closing remarks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher (President of the International Council of the ISHR and former Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance)
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. End of the annual conference
Impressions of the 2024 annual conference
