Shrinking of civic space should ring alarm bells

July 29, 2020

29 JULY 2020 PRESS RELEASE: The finding by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) that the spaces in which civic organisations can safely operate have shrunk yet again should ring alarm bells in the Union. According to the second annual consultation carried out by

Event Report: It’s Not About the Burqa with Nafisa Bakkar and Malia Bouattia

March 25, 2020

Hafsah Dabiri (author of Basirah the Basketballer Says Insha’Allah) chaired the author evening with Nafisa Bakkar (co-founder and CEO of Amaliah) and Malia Bouattia (former NUS president and presenter on Women Like Us) on Thursday, 12 March 2020. Read below a few snippets of the

Protect our laws and humanity! Open Letter by 256 Organizations

March 25, 2020

IHRC is one of the 256 signatories to this urgent letter regarding the situation of refugees currently stranded on Europe’s borders. Please share and make your voice heard.

Open Letter to the JC

February 7, 2020

IHRC has written an open letter to The Jewish Chronicle to complain about their reporting of Genocide Memorial Day’s school resources.

Book Launch with Saeed A. Khan & Arzu Merali: The New Colonialism – The American Model of Human Rights

January 20, 2020

Join IHRC for the book launch on Monday, 20 January 2020.

Guantanamo remains a blot on the human conscience

January 12, 2020

[First published 10 January 2019, edited and updated 12 January 2020] 11 January marks the anniversary of the confinement of the first detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility in the US. The internment camp was established by President George W. Bush shortly after

Conferences to highlight Muslim exclusion from public space

December 13, 2019

PRESS RELEASE [First issued 4 December 2019]The sixth annual IHRC / SACC Islamophobia Conference taking place a week on Saturday 14 December 2019 will discuss the different ways in which civil society space has shrunk in Britain and beyond, with a particular focus on Muslim