Book Launch with Saeed A. Khan & Arzu Merali: The New Colonialism – The American Model of Human Rights
January 20, 2020
Join IHRC for the book launch on Monday, 20 January 2020.
Civil Rights
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
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
Islamophobia Conference 2019: Islamophobia and Shrinking Civil Society Spaces
December 9, 2019
The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.
The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights /eds. Arzu Merali and Faisal Bodi
November 29, 2019
Available to buy now. Based on IHRC’s conference of the same name, this book presents nine contributions from scholar-activists looking at how human rights as theory and practice have been co-opted by the US as part of brutal, racist and colonial foreign and domestic policies.
Corbyn and Anti-Semitism – Prof Gus John answers Archbishop Welby
November 29, 2019
Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
Professor Gus John’s letter of resignation from CMEAC (Church of England body)
November 29, 2019
Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
Rabbi’s election intervention throws minorities under the bus
November 26, 2019
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
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