PRESS RELEASE: IHRC cautiously welcomes today’s ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering the government of Myanmar to prevent genocidal violence against its Rohingya Muslim minority and preserve any evidence of past crimes. We are pleased that the decision in the United Nations’ highest
PRESS RELEASE: The annual Genocide Memorial Day in London passed off peacefully without incident at the weekend with an international panel of speakers sharing damning views about how economic sanctions have and continue to contribute towards genocides against developing world peoples. An attentive audience heard
PRESS RELEASE 16 January 2020 The marked deterioration in racial/religious equality in Britain for Muslims over the last four years is the subject of a IHRC report submitted to a United Nations committee looking at how far the nation is meeting its human rights obligations.
PRESS RELEASE IHRC will host author Saeed A. Khan next week to launch a new book looking at US exceptionalism through the prism of colonialism. In 2018, IHRC held the conference The New Colonialism: The American Model of Human Rights, to unmask the systemic problems
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
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
IHRC’s latest submission to the Committee on Civil and Political Rights looks at the UK over the last few years. [Uploaded 14 January 2020] Download the report here. The last four years have seen a marked deterioration in racial/religious equality in Britain. A lurch to
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
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