Campaigning secures a public inquiry into Maher Arar’s treatment

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...

Human Rights Watch published an investigation into post-September 11 hate crimes against Arabs, Muslims and people perceived to belong to those groups. It documented violence and failures in...

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...

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...

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission launched the summary report of Isma—Listen in Sydney. Consultations examined prejudice, discrimination and vilification experienced by Arab and Muslim...

The US Supreme Court ruled that federal courts had jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of foreign nationals’ detention at Guantánamo. The decision reversed a major barrier faced by...

The UN held a seminar on confronting Islamophobia at its New York headquarters as part of its Unlearning Intolerance series. Kofi Annan addressed stereotypes, discrimination, physical insecurity and...

The European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber upheld the restrictions challenged by medical student Leyla Şahin, finding no violation of the Convention rights at issue. Judge Françoise Tulkens...