Genocide Memorial Day to focus on deadly impact of sanctions

January 16, 2020

PRESS RELEASE: Economic sanctions are to be the focus of the annual Genocide Memorial Day. Events held in London, Brussels and Amsterdam will examine the aims and effects of sanctions and interventions against different countries, with a particular focus on Iran and Venezuela. Genocide is

UN must hold US accountable for Soleimani execution

January 15, 2020

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

Guantanamo remains a blot on the human conscience

January 12, 2020

[First published 10 January 2019, edited and updated 12 January 2020] 11 January marks the anniversary of the confinement of the first detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility in the US. The internment camp was established by President George W. Bush shortly after

ICC investigating Zaria massacre, concerned about alleged evidence tampering

January 6, 2020

PRESS RELEASE The International Criminal Court in The Hague is continuing to investigate the massacre of over 1000 civilians by Nigerian armed forces in the city of Zaria in 2005. In its most recent update issued shortly before the new year the Prosecutor of the

Conferences to highlight Muslim exclusion from public space

December 13, 2019

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

December 10, 2019

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”

December 5, 2019

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.

WHAT’S NEW AT IHRC

November 29, 2019

We’re in the middle of another busy and exciting period at IHRC. Here is a selection of recent activities and what’s coming soon. As ever please remember us in your prayers and consider giving us a donation using any of the methods listed on our