Statements

Statements

PM Starmer must commit now to arresting Israeli leaders

The arrest warrants issued today by the International Criminal Court against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Yoav Gallant defence minister are long overdue. Usually, better late than never might be a justified reaction but in this instance it is more a case of too

IHRC demands end to unlawful arrests of pro-Palestine protestors

IHRC has written to the Metropolitan Police Chief, Sir Mark Rowley, protesting the continuing arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the capital. The letter addresses the latest arrest, which took place at Trafalgar Square on 6 October 2024, in which a protestor was arrested for chanting

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IHRC takes “Save Our Mosques” campaign to UN

IHRC has taken its “Save Our Mosques” campaign to the United Nations to highlight Britain’s free speech crackdown on the UK’s mosques. A side panel meeting today 7 October at 11am (GMT) will mark the first step in taking the fight against the British government

The world cannot afford to let Israel normalise genocide

Today the world crosses a shameful and dangerous threshold. Exactly one year after the beginning of a live-streamed genocide by Israeli forces against the Palestinians in Gaza, the industrial scale slaughter of men, women and children and the destruction of the essential conditions necessary for

British government must revoke bans on Hamas and Hizbullah

IHRC is urging the Home Secretary to immediately deproscribe all pro-Palestine resistance groups to help end the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and the intensified aggression against Lebanon. Since its invasion of Gaza last October Israel has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, 70% of them women