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 Organisations worldwide. 