IHRC calls for the official banning of the racist and Islamophobic British National Party

IHRC concerned at effect new proposed Incitement against Religious Hatred law may have on Ethnic and Minority Faith Communities

Special award for the work of Mudassar Arani.

Deep concern at European Court of Human Rights ruling that Turkey’s university headscarf ban, affecting some 50,000 Muslim women, is legitimate.

————————————————————– Islamic Human Rights Commission ————————————————————– 25th June 2004 Strictly embargoed until midnight 26th June

Winners of IHRC’s annual ‘Islamophobia Awards’ announced today ahead of the ceremony to be held in Maida Vale, London Saturday evening.

Historical analysis of accountability for war crimes in light of recent revelations of torture being committed by US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

IHRC is deeply dismayed by the High Court’s ruling that ban against Muslim schoolgirl wearing the jilbab by Denbigh High School was appropriate.