Civil Rights

Event Report: Author Evening with Rizwaan Sabir: The Suspect

IHRC hosted an author evening with Dr Rizwaan Sabir on Friday, 12 August, to discuss his book, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State. Dr Sabir is a lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. The Suspect focuses mainly on Dr Sabir’s personal

Author Evening with Rizwaan Sabir: The Suspect

Join us for an author evening with Rizwaan Sabir to discuss his book, The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State.  Purchase The Suspect from the IHRC Bookshop. WHEN: Friday, 12 August, 2022 TIME: 6.30pm BST (GMT+1) WHERE: IHRC Bookshop (202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA),

Countering Islamophobic Narratives in the United Kingdom

This page provides the key documents, video and links in the Countering Islamophobic Narratives project (CIK) that was undertaken in 2017 – 2018. The author of research on the UK was Arzu Merali.  Watch her present their findings at the European Parliament in September 2018. 

Proposed plan to send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda

Background Action required Template Letter Recipients Address   Background The Home Secretary Priti Patel’s xenophobic policies appears to have no boundaries and her latest plan to send UK asylum seekers to Rwanda is not only racist, but ludicrous. The United Kingdom has a long history

Event Report: Author Evening with Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan: Tangled in Terror

On 23 May 2022, the IHRC hosted an author evening with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, spoken word poet and author of Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (available to purchase at the IHRC Bookshop) which aims to highlight how Islamophobia functions and what we need to do to tackle Islamophobia.

Mental Health Awareness

We have a few announcements for you. Mental Health Awareness Week is taking place from 9th to 13th May. This year, the Mental Health Foundation are raising awareness of the impact of loneliness on our mental wellbeing and the practical steps we can take to address it.