Chairman: “IHRC has continued to receive widespread recognition for its work this year and to end on a positive note, I am pleased to announce that in July 2007 Islamic Human Rights Commission received Special Consultative status with the United Nations.”
Attacks on the follow-up world conference against racism ‘Durban II’ Al-Jazeera: On Riz Khan, live from New York City, the participants debate the Durban II world conference set up to fight racism and racial discrimination. Patricipants: Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, who
IHRC’s submission to CEDAW in 2008.
A compilation of the papers presented at the IHRC / NEDA conference of 2006.
From Cultures of Resistance, Volume 1, Issue 1
Reviews of Married to Another Man by Ghada Karmi, The One-State Solution by Virginia Tilley and One Country by Ali Abunimah
Yehudit Kirstein-Keshet explains the horror of checkpoints as a tool toward s Israel’s realisation of maximum territory with a minimum of Palestinians; yet another element in the ongoing system of population transfer that began with the Naqba-Disaster of 1948 and that continues, by various means, up to the present time. (June 2007)
Daud Abdullah contends that the creation of Israel in Palestine in 1948 provoked untold human rights abuses both in terms of the collective rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and in terms of their individual human rights. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) outlined ample provisions guaranteeing civil and political rights including the rights to life and liberty of all peoples, Israel has stubbornly refused to conform to these international norms. June 2007
