Press Release: UK – IHRC Chairman: Home Office stop-and-search figures “hide evidence of systematic anti-Muslim discrimination”

October 31, 2010

Home Office’s latest figures on numbers of people stopped and searched under anti-terrorism legislation fail to give the full picture when it comes to Muslim concerns about the discriminatory use of the powers

PRESS RELEASE: UK – IHRC Chairman: Baseless terror claims “further demonise a community under siege”

September 29, 2010

Massoud Shadjareh says terrorism stories are fueling prejudice and hate-crimes; appeals for greater scepticism from media

PRESS RELEASE: UK: JDL and far-right groups planning to disrupt Al-Quds Day rally

September 1, 2010

The IHRC, one of the organizers of the annual Al-Quds Day rally in London on 4 September, has called on pro-Palestinian and anti-fascist groups not to be intimidated by counter-demonstrations organized by the EDL, the Jewish Defense League and other Zionist and far-right groups.

GERMANY, MUSLIMS, CIVIL SOCIETY AND CITIZENSHIP: Expectations and experiences of Muslim organisations

August 19, 2010

An IHRC research report by Margit Liebhart. In 2007 – 08, Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) undertook a survey of Muslim civil society organizations in Germany.

ACTION ALERT: Bosnia – Bosnian Parliament is to ban the face veil

August 17, 2010

The Bosnian Central Parliament is to discuss a new law proposed by the Bosnian Serb Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) on 1st September 2010 to ban the face veil for which Muslim women have held a protest outside the Central Parliament in Sarajevo.