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UN must hold US accountable for Soleimani execution

PRESS RELEASE: IHRC has written to the United Nations demanding that it holds Washington accountable for its extra-judicial execution of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a drone stike in Iraq on 3 January. Calling the action “a dangerous act of international piracy”, the letter stresses

ICCPR UK 2020

IHRC’s latest submission to the Committee on Civil and Political Rights looks at the UK over the last few years. [Uploaded 14 January 2020] Download the report here. The last four years have seen a marked deterioration in racial/religious equality in Britain. A lurch to

Conferences to highlight Muslim exclusion from public space

PRESS RELEASE [First issued 4 December 2019]The sixth annual IHRC / SACC Islamophobia Conference taking place a week on Saturday 14 December 2019 will discuss the different ways in which civil society space has shrunk in Britain and beyond, with a particular focus on Muslim

UN urged to intervene in Zakzaky case on Human Rights Day

PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA IHRC has written to the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights urging her to intervene in the case of the beleaguered leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah al-Zakzaky. The plea comes on

Zakzaky prison transfer orders amount to “death sentence”

PRESS RELEASE IHRC condemns the decision of the Kaduna state high court ordering the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife to be transferred from the custody of the internal security services (DSS) to a prison in the state.

Rabbi’s election intervention throws minorities under the bus

PRESS RELEASE IHRC views with astonishment today’s call by one of Britain’s most influential rabbis for Jews to effectively abandon the Labour Party in next month’s upcoming general election on account of the alleged scale of anti-Semitism within the party. In condemning Labour as trenchantly