Islamic Human Rights Commission
Budget
€628,500
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
4
2.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
IHRC is a Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital. Limited by guarantee companies are usually ‘not for profit’. This means the company: is legally separate from the people who run it; has separate finances from your personal ones; has guarantors and a ‘guaranteed amount;’ invests profits it makes back into the company. (https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation). IHRC aims at combatting forms of institutional or private discrimination/racism based on an Islamophobic, racist or anti-migrant.stigmatization. Our aims are: 1. To champion human rights, especially freedom of expression, of religion, assembly. 2) To combat any abuse of powers (from whatever base that power derives – e.g. political, judicial, media, economic, military, personal, etc.). 3. To publicise, atrocities, oppression, discrimination, & other abuses. 4) To campaign for redress, & to support the victims, of such crimes.
EU Legislative Interests
Anti-discrimination policy; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU; Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC), combating direct and indirect discrimination on multiple grounds (religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation), as regards employment and occupation; Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC), combating direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin in employment, education, social protection and access to public goods and services; Council Framework Decision (2008/913/JHA) on racism and xenophobia, which makes offences against persons based on race, colour, religion, descent, or national or ethnic origin punishable in criminal law; Victims of Crime Directive (2012/29/EU), establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, including hate crime; Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2010/13/EU), banning incitement to hatred in audiovisual media services and the promotion of discrimination in advertising (a new framework amending this directive, with new rules for proscribing content inciting hatred, has recently been adopted); the New Pact on Migration and Asylum (2023); The Single Permit Directive 2011/98/EU; the Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism; the EU Global strategy; 2017 Directive on Combating Terrorism
Communication Activities
Meeting with the special representative for Muslim communities for the S&D, Green and GUE/NGL Political Groups in the European Parliament — Engaging with the European Parliament’s Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup (ARDI) and various Committees in the Parliament — Producing policy documents and recommendations undertaking state of the art research on countering Islamophobia in the EU, as well as country specific reports on the Germany, France, Italy, Austria and the UK. — Producing thematic reports on Islamophobia e.g. on the unlawfulness of Hijab bans, racism in immigration law and policy, civil rights violations due to anti-terrorism laws etc. — Network-building activities with partners in EU countries developing new campaigns and strengthening critical mass (Wise4All Project
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
IHRC is Member of S-COM, an international non-profit organisation based in Brussels. S-Com is committed to improve a more sustainable communication, that plays an essential role in innovation process, cultural change and social integration of individuals and greater social justice. (https://www.scom.eu/#intro). IHRC's role is that of consultancy in migration or discrimination-related issues and publication.
Organisation Members
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Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.