Civil Rights

UN Side Panel: Pro Palestinians under Attack

IHRC’s side panel at the UN Human Rights Council Session ‘Pro Palestinians under Attack’ took place on 22 September 2025  at the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XI.  The panellists were: Fahad Ansari, Lawyer; Caterina Aiena IHRC Senior Policy Officer,  UN/EU Team; Abed

We Don’t Need White Tears When Racism Kills

Another racist murder in Norway exposes the failures of its institutions to tackle rising hatred in the Scandanavian nation says Iffit Qureshi.   Last week in Oslo, Tamima Nibras Juhar, a 34-year-old Norwegian Ethiopian Muslim woman, was murdered in Kampen, Oslo by an 18-year-old right-wing

Reply to Daily Telegraph article 15/06/2025

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/15/pro-hezbollah-speaker-calls-for-activists-fight-london/   Watch: ‘Pro-Hezbollah’ speaker calls for activists to fight back at London rally Islamic rights campaigner who addressed crowds outside Israeli embassy praised Lebanon terror group in the past   A speaker who called for protesters in London to “fight back” against Israel’s attack on

Statement on Palestine Action

It is disturbing to see pro-Palestine organisations being banned. While Palestine Action may be proscribed, action in support of Palestinians has not been criminalised. Actions opposing apartheid have not been criminalised. Actions opposing occupation have not been criminalised. It is our moral duty, now more

Response to Damien Egan comments in The Jewish News

Damien Egan MP has taken to the pages of The Jewish News today 2nd July 2025 to demand restrictions for various organisations in the wake of the Palestine Action proscription debacle.  This list includes IHRC, based  on spurious claims.    Introduction   As this is