With a general election looming in the UK, Arzu Merali overviews the findings of the IHRC research project British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government (BMEG), and asks where the ideal of effective citizenship has gone?
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations’ human rights chief accused Egypt on Tuesday of shooting unarmed African migrants trying to enter Israel via the Sinai Desert and said 60 of them had been killed since July 2007.
Amid a rising tide of Islamophobia in Europe, a former finance senator in Germany has been strongly criticized for his racist, anti-Islam comments.
Immigration minister says new system for immigrants seeking a British passport will ‘break the link between temporary migration and permanent citizenship’
Most victims of discrimination in the European Union are unaware of their rights and often do not know how or where to file a complaint, a watchdog said Wednesday.
Chairman: “IHRC has continued to receive widespread recognition for its work this year and to end on a positive note, I am pleased to announce that in July 2007 Islamic Human Rights Commission received Special Consultative status with the United Nations.”
In this ‘What’s New’ a series of Alerts outlining recent human rights issues in UK, Nigeria, Libya, Sudan, US, Trinidad and Tobago. We also have a Press Release on IHRC’s Oral Intervention at UN on the extension of pre-trial detention in UK.
Hicham Yezza’s scheduled deportation for 1 June 2008 was cancelled and his immigration case is now with the Home Office’s legal advisers.
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