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Formation | 1997 |
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Type | NGO |
Purpose | Islamic Human Rights |
Headquarters | 202 Preston Road, Wembley, London, UK |
Official language | English |
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Affiliations | United Nations, European Union, Universal Justice Network, Decoloniality Europe, Convivencia Alliance |
Website | ihrc |
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The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is a non-profit organisation based in London. Its stated mission is to "champion the rights & duties revealed for human beings" and to "promote a new social [and] international order, based on truth, justice, righteousness [and] generosity, rather than selfish interest."[1] The group was established in 1997. The organisation, since 2007, has held consultative status with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.[2]
The organisation has been accused of ties with the Iranian regime and spreading Islamic extremism in the United Kingdom. In the British government’s independent 2023 review of its Prevent counter-extremism programme, directed by Sir William Shawcross, the final report described the organisation as “an Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime, that has a history of ‘extremist links and terrorist sympathies’.”[3] However, Amnesty International UK’s Racial Justice Director Ilyas Nagdee described Shawcross’ review as “riddled with biased thinking, errors and plain anti-Muslim prejudice” and “has no legitimacy.”[4] He accused the Prevent counter-extremism programme of unfairly targeting British Muslims, a claim which has been contested by policy experts.[4][5]
The IHRC organises yearly Quds Day rallies calling for an end to the State of Israel.[6] The marches are notorious for the crowd commonly displaying of Hezbollah flags, a group proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom as of 2019.[7][8]