Human Rights Watch documents the anti-Muslim backlash in We Are Not the Enemy

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that government intervention in the leadership of Bulgaria’s Muslim community violated religious freedom and the right to an effective remedy. Fikri Sali Hasan...

The Council of the European Union adopted Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a framework against employment discrimination on grounds including religion or belief. Its provisions on direct and...

Sikh volunteers founded the Sikh Coalition on the night of 11 September as attacks against Sikh Americans began. The organization’s history describes an emergency effort to secure protection, legal...

At the Islamic Center of Washington, President George W. Bush condemned intimidation of Muslim Americans and distinguished Islam from the perpetrators of the September attacks. The visit publicly...

The Center for Constitutional Rights and cooperating lawyers filed Rasul v. Bush on behalf of Guantánamo detainees. The action challenged the attempt to hold foreign prisoners outside ordinary...

The Muslim Association of Britain joined the Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in organizing the enormous London march against the proposed invasion of Iraq. The event...

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court held that Baden-Württemberg lacked a sufficiently definite statutory basis to exclude a teacher for wearing a headscarf. Fereshta Ludin’s challenge contested the...

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 entered into force in England, Scotland and Wales. They prohibited specified forms of discrimination and harassment in employment and...

Canada announced a public inquiry led by Dennis O’Connor into Canadian officials’ conduct in the deportation and detention of Maher Arar. Arar, his wife Monia Mazigh and civil-liberties supporters had...

Human Rights Watch called for rejection of France’s proposed ban on conspicuous religious symbols in state schools, arguing that it would disproportionately exclude Muslim girls and infringe religious...