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Julie Lenarz, the Executive Director of the Human Security Centre, is quoted in the IB Times on terror financing. Terrorism is funded in large part by the illicit industries, with the money made from things like drugs and human trafficking ...

Julie Lenarz, the Executive Director of the Human Security Centre, reacts to yesterday’s terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem.  What happened in Jerusalem yesterday was a crime of unspeakable cruelty and barbarous depravity. It was not just a normal terrorist ...

Yesterday marked the end of combat operations in Afghanistan for the British armed forces. Over 13 years of conflict have ensued since the US invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Afghanistan ...

Julie Lenarz, Executive Director of the Human Security Centre, and Simon Jenkins, the author and journalist debate British military action in Iraq on Channel 4 News with Jon Snow.

The Human Security Centre is pleased to announce that the UK parliament’s Defence Committee has published our submission on future force 2020 as official evidence. You can read or download the full report here.

On 5th September, 20014, the HSC’s Director for Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships, Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, was on PMLR’s Westminster Podcast discussing the situation in Iraq.    

An independent report on the 1 September 2013 massacre at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, published on the one-year anniversary of the attack, has confirmed the suspected involvement of the government of outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The report, which incorporates the testimonies of the 42 surviving eyewitnesses to the massacre, was compiled by the Human Security Centre (HSC), a London-based global foreign policy think tank; and the Ashraf Campaign (ASHCAM), a human rights group set up last year to advocate for Iranian refugees living in Iraq.

The HSC’s Director for Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships, Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, was quoted in Channel News Asia on the subject of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. British Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the apparent killing of ...

On 18th August, 20014, the HSC’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was on BBC Radio Drivetime debating Iraq with Chris Nineham of the Stop the War Coalition.