Cordial invitation to the 52nd annual meeting:

IGFM Annual General Meeting 2024

War in Europe

Advocating for Human Rights – Now More Than Ever!

Date: April 20th/21st 2024

Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institut
Langer Grabenweg 68, 53175 Bonn

Dear members and friends of the International Society for Human Rights!

On behalf of the Board of the IGFM, I would like to cordially invite you to our 52nd Annual General Meeting.

We are delighted to welcome prominent speakers such as Lev Ponomaryov, co-founder of the Russian human rights organization „Memorial“ and former member of the Duma, and Karinna Moskalenko, Armenian-Russian lawyer before the European Court of Human Rights.

For obvious reasons, the focus of our conference this year is on Eastern Europe. We have therefore invited speakers from some of the countries most threatened by Russia. We are also paying particular attention to Armenia, the oldest Christian country in the world, whose very existence is under threat. Iran, where the human rights situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past year, is another focus.

We also warmly invite you to the General Assembly of the IGFM – German Section e.V. with reports and further greetings (see separate agenda).

Dear friends, the annual conference is the most important event of the IGFM, where members, sponsors and interested parties meet and exchange ideas with the board and staff. Please support us by attending in large numbers! I look forward to seeing you again in Bonn.

Yours

Edgar Lamm

Chairman
IGFM – German Section e.V

Conference agenda

Saturday, April 20th, 2024

11 a.m.      Arrival, registration, snacks

12.00 p.m.      Welcome
12.00 p.m.      Edgar Lamm
12.00 p.m.      Chairman of the IGFM

12.15 p.m.      Speeches on the conference topic


  Lew Ponomarjow
  Co-founder of the Russian human rights organization „Memorial“

Former member of the Duma

Photo: Vitaly Ragulin, CC BY-SA 3.0 


Karinna Moskalenko
Armenian-Russian lawyer before the European Court of Human Rights

Photo: Michael Leh

Video:
“Inside Russian prisons – a day in the life of Putin’s enemy”

2.30 p.m.    Words of greeting


Michael Gahler, MEP
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament

Photo: Press photo Michael Gahler


Roderich Kiesewetter
Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee (Video)

Photo: Tobias Koch


Peter Heidt, MdB
Spokesman for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag

Photo: Laurence Chaperon

3 p.m.           Coffee break, pastries

3:30 p.m.     Country reports (led by RA Carmen Jondral Schuler)


Ukraine
Anton Alekseyev (video)
IGFM Ukraine


Belarus
Olga Karach
Nash Dom


Lithuania
Jurgita Samoskiene


Moldova
Dr. Liubov Nemcinova


Albania
Prof. Dr. Margarita Kola
Photo: Albspirit



Iran
Mariam Claren



Iraq
Taban Shoresh
Lotus Flower

Photo: Lotus Flower



Pakistan
RA Aneeqa Anthony (Video)
The Voice


6:00 p.m.     Dinner

7:00 p.m.     Award ceremony of the Stephanus Foundation for persecuted Christians


Dr. Jasmin Dum-Tragut
Director of the Center for Research on the Christian East

University of Salzburg

 

Laureate
Gegham Stepanyan

Ombudsmann für Menschenrechte von #Artsahk
Foto: Twitter @Gegham_Artsakh

 


Laudator
Dr. Gurgen Petrossian
University of Nuremberg

Sunday, April 21th, 2024

8:00 a.m.      Breakfast

9:00 a.m.      Members‘ meeting (separate agenda)
9:00 a.m.      Head: Edgar Lamm

11.30 a.m.      Brief Report International Society for Human Rights (ISHR)
11.30 a.m.      Matthias Böhning, General Secretary

12.00 p.m.     Further greetings / video messages
12.00 p.m.    Brief report Working Committee on Religious Freedom
12.00 p.m.    Heinz Ernst

12.30 p.m.    Closing Words
12.30 p.m.    Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher
12.30 p.m.   
President of the International Council of the IGFM
12.30 p.m.   
General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance

12.45 p.m.    Lunch

Organizational notes

The Gustav Stresemann Institute is located in the south of Bonn in the old government district. It offers sufficient space for all guests. Those arriving by car can either park in the institute’s own charged parking lot or in the immediate surroundings. For guests arriving by tram/subway from the city, the walk takes approx. 5 – 8 minutes.

www.gsi-bonn.de

On Saturday, the IGFM reception will be open from 10.00 am. Please arrive in time!

Please register using the attached form.


By email: info@igfm.de


By fax: 069 / 420108-33


By post: Edisonstr.
5, 60388 Frankfurt


By telephone: 069 / 420108-0

Please transfer the conference fee in advance to the IGFM account:

IBAN: DE66 3702 0500 0001 4036 01


BIC: BFSWDE33XXX


Of course you can also pay on site.

Please note that photos, films or other media recordings will be made during the event in order to meet the legitimate interest of the IGFM within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f of the GDPR