IHRC has today called on the Home Secretary to take immediate action to protect the public from violent protestors claiming to be demonstrating against the government of Iran but are in fact targeting Muslim community institutions and Iranian restaurants and businesses across the UK. The
Today’s effective acquittals of six anti-genocide campaigners for smashing up weapons in an arms factory belonging to Israel’s largest private arms manufacturer in Bristol is a triumph for justice and humanity. Despite the directions of the judge, a jury refused to convict the six activists
The Islamic Human Rights Commissions’ annual Genocide Memorial Day will take place on Sunday, 18 January 2026. This year’s theme is ‘Genocide 2026: How did we get here?’ focusing on the genocide in Gaza. The Gaza genocide is an object lesson in the failure of
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is gearing up for the annual Genocide Memorial Day, which will take place on Sunday, 18 January 2026. This year’s theme is ‘Genocide 2026: How did we get here?’ focusing on the genocide in Gaza. The Gaza genocide is an
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
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Zaria massacre, a slaughter of at least 1000 innocent civilians by Nigerian security forces. The massacre occurred when over the course of three days starting Dev 12, 2015, soldiers attacked civilians and property connected to the Islamic Movement
Join us for this year’s SACC/IHRC Scottish Islamophobia Conference on Sunday 14 December 2025 which asks how we can resist racism and colonialism while threatened in much of the “western” world by increasingly authoritarian governments and by the growing influence of far-right forces outside government.
IHRC is saddened to learn of the death of the veteran US civil rights campaigner Imam Jamil Al-Amin. The outspoken campaigner for justice died yesterday in a federal jail after a long struggle with bad health. Better known as H Rap Brown prior to his
