In the light of yesterday’s publication of the official review of Prevent, IHRC reiterates its call for the anti-terrorism programme to be scrapped in its entirety. The review which was boycotted by hundreds of civil society groups across the board simply doubles down on problematising
As part of its submission to the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, IHRC has compiled this briefing regarding some of the impacts of such laws and policies in the UK,
The focus of the British government and security apparatus continues to fall on Muslims. John Holmwood argues that the state’s flagship policy ‘Prevent’, and the narrative of ‘British values’ has imbued policies and laws, particularly in education, that discriminate against all minority faiths and undermine
Looking at the current world-wide turmoil, and the rise of the multi-polar world, Saeed Khan sets out the questions and conversations that will inform this year’s IHRC Islamophobia Conference. Geographically, the sun sets in the West. But has the time now come that the sun
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, whilst deeply humiliating for the US, is in and of itself not enough to dent US interfering or ambitions in the region argues Faisal Bodi. Understanding the longer history of the US and its allies meddling in the country is
From the unabashed appointment of an Islamophobe to review the UK’s counter-terrorism laws, to the social engineering intentions and impacts, the British government continues to marginalise  Muslims. Massoud Shadjareh argues that getting beyond the agenda set by the Prevent policy by looking at the bigger
The internalisation of governmental narratives about oneself, especially as an individual or a group, is a common and arguably essential by-product of state policies aimed at controlling dissent, particularly from minoritised communities. Niyousha Bastani argues that the Prevent policy in the UK, with its racialised
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The disturbing rise of Hindutva supremacism in India has been mirrored by a corresponding growth of extremism in the Indian diaspora, particularly in the UK where the efforts of such groups are now feeding into public policy decisions, says Amrit Wilson. In the six weeks
Labour’s loss of its heartlands in last December’s general election has been the subject of much dissection, introspection and recriminations. But aside from what it means for the party, the collapse of the fabled, once impregnable ‘red wall’ under the onslaught of a nativist ‘white
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