The report, the latest in a series by IHRC seeking to document the extent of Islamophobia, found a community reeling from the twin effects of racial and religious bigotry.
It is IHRC's second UK-wide report, studying Muslim experiences of hostility and discrimination and issues of anti-Muslim hate crime within the context of an increasingly institutionally Islamophobic environment. It looks beyond racially motivated criminal acts against Muslims and analyses the environment in which discriminatory acts are encouraged and legitimized.
The report shows that Islamophobia has evolved into new, accepted forms of discrimination against a particular group, with effects apparent in all forms of daily life.
Between 2010 and 2014, the number of people who reported seeing Islamophobia directed at someone else spiked from 50 per cent to 82 per cent. In the same period the number of people stating they had witnessed negative stereotypes about Islam and Muslims jumped from 69 per cent to 93.3 per cent suggesting these experiences have become almost universal for Muslims.
The event in Geneva forms part of a Europe-wide launch of the report and will follow on the heels of a presentation at the European Parliament in Brussels on September 27.
Panel discussions will bring together experts, academics, civil society organizations, EU institutions and European Muslim human rights activists. They will explore how to have an intersectional approach to discrimination and hate crime and how to improve the implementation of non-discrimination legislation.
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