IHRC has called on the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call off a planned visit to Saudi Arabia this week in light of the kingdom’s worsening human rights record. Some 81 prisoners, among them child protestors and political activists, were put to death on
Statement: A Jewish asylum seeker who won his claim to be permitted to stay in the UK has vowed to continue the fight to force the British courts to both recognise him as a refugee and call out the systemic racial bias of the Zionist
The former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, will be among a prominent and diverse line-up of speakers addressing a national protest against the government’s plans to introduce legislation designed to make easier the stripping of nationality from those with foreign ancestry. Dubbed the
These extracts from the IHRC project on mapping and analysing Islamophobia project (DHMIR) come from its 2013 and 2015 reports on the USA and UK respectively. They include recommendations from the 1966 Kerner Report from the USA. They were first reproduced here on 9 February 2022 in relation
Madame Michelle Bachelet JeriaOffice of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)Palais Wilson52 Rue des PaquisCH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland 27 January 2022 Dear Madam High Commissioner Re: Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and Mallimah Zakzaky I am writing to urge your intervention to help secure necessary travel
In line with the aim of the annual event which aims to raise awareness of genocide so that new generations can understand the causes and recognise the warning signs of such atrocities, this year’s theme is the sanitisation of genocides and genocidal acts. Wherever and
PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick over calls from government ministers for the police to investigate university students demonstrating against the presence of Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, at a university event in London on Tuesday
Dates: 11 & 12 December Venue: Online ihrc.tv and YouTube and Facebook For press enquiries and to organise interviews please email media[AT]ihrc.org or call / message +447958607475. The annual Islamophobia conference takes place across 11 and 12 December 2021. Co-organised by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) and the Decolonial
