International Society for Human Rights

The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) (, IGFM) is an international non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization with Participative Status with the Council of Europe. It is a member of the Liaison Committee of the Non-Governmental Organizations at the Council of Europe. The ISHR has a right to watch for the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights. It is a friend of the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and can speak right to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

The house of the ISHR is in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The organization was made in West Germany in 1972. It was named the Society for Human Rights (). The organization became the International Society for Human Rights in 1982, when its branches in Austria, Switzerland, the UK, and France were made. Since then it has got bigger to be made up of 47 National Sections, National Groups, Regional Committees, and Affiliated Organizations worldwide.All ISHR sections can be found in the map on this site.All ISHR sections are also listed on the website of the German ISHR section. 

References

 Literature 
 Jürgen Wüst: Menschenrechtsarbeit im Zwielicht. Zwischen Staatssicherheit und Antifaschismus, (Schriftenreihe Extremismus und Demokratie, 13), Bouvier, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-416-02861-9
 Jürgen Wüst: «Imperialistisches Menschenrechtsgeschrei». Der Kampf des MfS gegen die Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte (IGFM) und Amnesty International (AI), in: Deutschland Archiv, Nr. 3/1998, S. 418—427
 Günter Platzdasch unter Mitwirkung von Rainer Fromm: Die sogenannte Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte Eine rechte Grauzonenorganisation Wiesbaden (Hrsg. Büro der Stadtverordnetenversammlung), 1990. Mit einem aktuellen Vorwort 2009

 Other websites 
 The Official Website of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR)
 Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte (The Official Website in German)

Category:International organizations
Category:Human rights organizations in Europe
Category:Organizations based in Frankfurt
Category:1972 establishments in Europe
Category:1970s establishments in Germany
Category:Non-profit organizations of Europe