IHRC has focused on civil rights in various contexts from its outset in 1997.  This area of interest in civil rights and liberties, political, social and minority rights has been realised in various countries, but particularly in the UK.  Our areas of focus include: anti-terrorism laws; counter-extremism policy; institutional racism (including Islamophobia) and discrimination; immigration and asylum; policing; shrinking civil society space and the concentration of power.