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Safeguarding lives and health takes precedence over congregational prayers

IHRC’s Faisal Bodi says that too many Muslims are putting the importance of maintaining congregational prayer ahead of the need to stop the coronavirus pandemic.  The issue of suspending congregational prayers in response to the Covid-19 outbreak has been an issue of much contentious and emotive

Genocide Memorial Day (GMD) Mexico 2019

Our brothers and sisters of The Decolonial Thought Community in Mexico took up the concept of Genocide Memorial Day (GMD) that is promoted by the Decolonial International Network (DIN). On October 12, 2019 an event was organized to commemorate the Indigenous Holocaust. The event was

IHRC Annual Report 2019-20

As Ramadan approaches, we present a review of our year’s work. We would like to thank you for your support. We run on your donations, as the situation world-wide becomes ever more uncertain and fragile we humbly request that you spare some of your generous

Far-Right in Europe: Is the Threat Taken Seriously?

Arzu Merali discusses the rise off the far-right and the failure of CVE regimes on TRT’s Roundtable on 12 March 2020. Watch the video below, panel details underneath. Muslims have been calling for greater protection after recent far-right terror attacks in Germany. In the UK,

Genocide Memorial Day (GMD) 2019 Event Report- Geneva

Genocide Memorial Day (GMD) is a day focused on remembering man’s inhumanity to man. The theme for #GMD2019 in Geneva was “Failures of International Institutions in preventing genocide in conflict: The Holocaust, Palestine and Bosnia Herzegovina.

Tales of Mini Maryam

IHRC Press is proud to present its first children’s book. Order the book here. For trade orders please contact shop[AT]ihrc.org or call (+44) 20 8904 4222. View page samples below. Download the AIN here. Kosser Abdul Aziz’s debut is a collection of six lively short

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: IHRC working hours and practice

As of Thursday 12 March 2020, the IHRC Office and Bookshop & Gallery will not be open to the public. The work of IHRC continues as normal. Please keep checking our website for any updates. If you need to contact us and have the email

Advocate: Lawyer without Borders and more reading…

We highly recommend anyone with access to iPlayer or another format that is hosting this movie to watch it.  Advocate: A Lawyer without Borders follows Leah Tsemel, the Jewish lawyer, famed for representing Palestinian defendants accused of terrorist offences. For the last 50 years, she