Arzu Merali

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Journalism in the Time of Trojan Horse

  Arzu Merali reflects on Serial’s podcast series of the infamous affair that resulted in a societal sea change for the worse against Muslims [substitute alternate teaser here]. Let me start with this. Serial is excellent and everyone needs to listen to it, even if,

Tackling Islamophobia in the Media

  These extracts from the IHRC project on mapping and analysing Islamophobia project (DHMIR) come from its 2013 and 2015 reports on the USA and UK respectively. They include recommendations from the 1966 Kerner Report from the USA. They were first reproduced here on 9 February 2022 in relation

Letter to UN re denial of passports to Sheikh Zakzaky and Mallimah Zeenah

Madame Michelle Bachelet JeriaOffice of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)Palais Wilson52 Rue des PaquisCH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland 27 January 2022 Dear Madam High Commissioner Re: Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and Mallimah Zakzaky I am writing to urge your intervention to help secure necessary travel

20 Years Since Gitmo

With 11 January 2022 marking 20 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (Gitmo), We have a few announcements to share with you related to prisoners. Author Evening with Moazzam Begg Moazzam Begg was invited to speak at IHRC’s Author Evening about his book, Enemy Combatant. in 2011.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Annual Poetry Competition 2022

Ensure you don’t miss our annual Poetry Competition new deadline! The date for final submissions to the 2022 competition is 20th February 2022. The competition is open to anyone in the UK aged 11 to 18 at the time of entering. Winners will be announced

Watch our Genocide Memorial Day 2022 event

Did you miss it? You can now watch our Genocide Memorial Day 2022 event. Thank you so much for attending our successful Genocide Memorial Day event! Our sincere apologies, we had slight technical glitch on IHRC.tv. You can now watch the whole event on IHRC

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Sayyida Suhaila Ibrahim on the Zaria Massacres

Watch Sayyida Suhaila Ibrahim one of the daughters of Sheikh El-Zakzaky recount the horrific events of December 2015 that left almost a thousand killed, three of whom were her brothers, and one of whom was her aunt. Part One Part Two

PODCAST SERIES: Truth & Reconciliation after the 8 December Killings

All four episodes now available. In this series of podcasts, activist and thinker Sandew Hira of the Decolonial International Network Foundation talks with Arzu Merali of his experiences of trying to set up a Truth & Reconciliation project in Suriname to deal with the legacy