** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
The European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its annual report for the year 2009 in which it has identified enforcement gaps in data protection, racism, discrimination and workers rights. The report found that during ‘the period 2000-2008, 10 of the 12 Member States which...
The Council of Europe has welcomed the UK government’s decision to hold an inquiry into torture and rendition, as the ‘proper response’ that other countries ought to emulate. From the Guardian: ‘The council’s commissioner for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, said...
The BBC’s Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, has criticised the BBC Trust for finding him ‘guilty’ of inaccuracies in two reports he wrote on Israel last year. Speaking to an audience at the University of Westminster, where he was presented with the Charles Wheeler award in...
The Home Office has revealed that ‘tens of thousands’ of people across the UK have been stopped and searched illegally under the controversial section 44 of the Terrorism Act (2000) which allows police to stop and search someone without suspicion that an offence has occurred. An...
Speaking to an audience of scholars at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), Prince Charles yesterday urged people to preserve the environment and heal the ‘widening division’ between humanity and Nature. Seventeen years after his landmark speech entitled ‘Islam and the West’ at...
Tony Blair, special envoy of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, said yesterday on Israeli television that ‘when it comes to security, I’m 100 percent on Israel’s side.’ Speaking on Channel 10 following last week’s deadly attack that killed nine...
The Charity Commission published a report on Monday in which it said that the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation no longer has any links with Hizb ut-Tahrir, and that ‘issues identified and considered did not give rise to regulatory concerns.’ The Commission warned however that...
Robert Fisk (pictured) comments in the Independent on Israel’s attack on the aid flotilla heading to Gaza last week. He writes: ‘Turkish family protests that their sons wanted to be martyrs – something which most Turkish family members might say if their relatives had been shot...
The blanket approach towards 10,300 Muslim prisoners by prison staff risks entrenching alienation and disaffection, creating young men who are ‘more likely to offend, or even embrace extremism’, according to the chief inspector of prisons, Dame Anne Owers. Dame Anne Ower’s...
It emerged yesterday that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a UN proposal for an international commission to probe last week’s attack on a flotilla of aid ships by Israeli commandos. Instead, Israeli officials will reportedly carry out their own inquiry. Activists...
