On Sunday 18th January 2026, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) hosted its seventeenth annual Genocide Memorial Day (GMD) at the P21 Gallery in London. This year’s theme was “Genocide: How did we get here”, which focused on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The genocide
In this exclusive extract from the forthcoming book documenting Talha Ahsan’s case and the campaign around it, Nisha Kapoor finds much to learn from and much to gain strength from in our increasingly difficult times. At a time when despair seems to be suffocating hope,
Walneyoffice@parliament.uk 19 January 2026 Dear Mr Woodcock, We write in response to your letter dated 12 January 2026. You are doubtless aware that IHRC is a human rights organisation that works for human dignity for all peoples regardless of their background. We are part of
IHRC held the 12th annual Islamophobia Conference on Saturday 6th December. Entitled From Freedom to Comfort: How the State Redefined Conscience as Extremism’, the conference explored how consciousness has become criminalised and delegitimised. Professor Saeed Khan’s paper ‘When Conscience Becomes Crime: The Vacuous Charge of
Dear Sir, We strongly condemn your publication’s tendentious article of 15 December in which you attempt to smear the recent Glasgow Islamophobia Conference. The conference is an annual event jointly organised by IHRC, DIN and SACC. It hosts expert speakers who are free to express
The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP Home Office 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF shabana.mahmood.mp@parliament.uk 8 October 2025 Dear Home Secretary, RE: Disparity proves anti-terror laws are unnecessary, discriminatory political theatre I write on behalf of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)
Re-reading IHRC’s 2005 report on the culture of ‘anti-terrorism’ in the UK, Abed Choudhury argues that its warnings about the criminalisation of lawful dissent and the expansion of authoritarian legal tools have now materialised, and shows how the UK’s legal and political climate has moved
Head of IHRC Advocacy, Abed Choudhury, takes the current narratives around the case to deproscribe Hamas, as a starting point to unravel the crisis of law and democracy faced if we give credence to the voices currently holding public sway. The crisis around deproscription is
IHRC held the 11th annual Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 and Sunday, 15 December 2024. Entitled, The Vanishing Public Muslim, the focus of the conference was what it means for Muslims when they exercise their rights, particularly those in the Western hemisphere and claim to
Things need to change in mainstream pro-Palestine movements in Western Europe argues Arzu Merali, when so many of the racist, Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian narratives that have been employed to justify and enact genocide have been internalised by mainstream social justice organisations. The result has been to
