Zakzaky: IHRC letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

December 5, 2019

[uploaded 9 December] Read IHRC Chair, Massoud Shadjareh’s letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet Jeria regarding the further persecution of Sheikh El-Zkakzay. Follow the campaign here. Fins the Press Kit here. Download the PDF of the letter here Read the

ALERT – Nigeria: Demand the immediate release of Sheikh El-Zakzaky & Mallima Zeenah

December 5, 2019

This morning (5 December 2019) a Kaduna High Court Judge has ordered that Sheikh and Mallima be moved from their place of detention to Kaduna Central Prison. Not only is their continued detention in any for illegal and immoral, both are in very poor health

In Support of World AIDS Day

December 1, 2019

World AIDS Day takes place on 1st December every year. On this day, people worldwide unite in the fight against HIV. The IHRC Bookshop and Gallery are supporting the Mustadafin Foundation, who deliver much needed services to local communities in South Africa, which has the

Read the latest issue of The Long View

November 30, 2019

Volume 1: Issue 4 is out now. Read this issue’s essays online here. Download the PDF of the whole issue here. In this edition Zvaid Jughashvili discusses The past and the future of the Salafi/Wahhabi trend in the former-Soviet Union, Ahmed Uddin looks at the

Genocide Memorial Day Anthology: 2012 – 2019

November 30, 2019

Introduction by Ibrahim Sincere, contributors various Paperback, available from 20 December 2019. This anthology brings all the entries from winners, runners-up and those highly commended from 2012 – 2019 Genocide Memorial Day poetry competition in one volume. Since its first establishment in 2010 by IHRC,

The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights /eds. Arzu Merali and Faisal Bodi

November 29, 2019

Available to buy now. Based on IHRC’s conference of the same name, this book presents nine contributions from scholar-activists looking at how human rights as theory and practice have been co-opted by the US as part of brutal, racist and colonial foreign and domestic policies.

Corbyn and Anti-Semitism – Prof Gus John answers Archbishop Welby

November 29, 2019

Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.