IHRC’s UN team organised a side panel on 1st July 2026 to discuss US Impunity on War Crimes, with Professor Richard Falk, Caterina Aiena and Sandew Hira. Watch the event, or read the transcript below the video. Video of event (as livestreamed)
Citizens International organised this panel ‘Diplomacy of the Bully: Coercion, Ceasefires, and the New Architecture of Power’ as part of its Global South Series, hosting academics Helen Yaffe and Sara Larijani discussing the exceptionalism of the US in its current and long term actions against
Recent events in the UK have underscored a disturbing erosion of the rule of law, an erosion that threatens not only lawyers and judges, but the fundamental rights of all. Last week this formed part of the IHRC panel at the United Nations in Geneva,
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
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
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
More on Walney’s words of demonisation against IHRC Introduction In a comment piece in The Times (UK), the unelected peer Lord Walney (John Woodcock) has continued making spurious claims about IHRC, demanding that the latest draconian security measure – the Foreign Influence Registration scheme
Head of IHRC Advocacy, Abed Choudhury, unpacks the vicious authoritarianism driving UK discourses on proscription of dissenting voices and protest, from Palestine Action to IHRC itself. The UK government’s use of anti-terror legislation has drifted from authoritarian excess to something closer to farce. What began as
