The Justice Council
Steadfast in justice

Stand for justice.
Stop genocide.

We are a council of Muslims building a lobby to prevent genocide, stop it, and hold those responsible to account, and to carry Islamic reform into the institutions that hold power: legislatures, courts, regulators, scholarly councils and the bodies between nations.
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The Palestine crisis
Qur’an 4:135
“O you who believe, be steadfast in justice, as witnesses for Allah, even against yourselves.”
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Our organisation

Who we are

The Justice Council is being established as a lobby and a set of departments that work at three levels at once: here at home, in our region, and between nations.

Research

We map the crises, the actors and the levers of power, with the evidence and the references.

The Lobby

Desks at community, national and international level take each case to the one institution that can act on it.

Accountability

We build the case files that courts, prosecutors and tribunals need to hold perpetrators and their suppliers to account.

Community

We protect Muslim minorities and strengthen the person and the family, the ground every reform stands on.
GLOBALUN · ICJ · ICC · OICREGIONALAfrican Union · SADCLOCALSouth Africa
How we work

How the lobby works

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Goals from the evidence

Every reform starts from the opinions, policies and goals worked out from the evidence: what each institution must have done by the end of the year.
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A plan for each year

Each campaign has a plan in four quarters, timed to the real calendar of budgets, sessions and summits, with every task assigned.
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Lobby desks

Lobby tasks go to a desk for each level of power. A lobby task always names the one institution it takes the case to.
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AI does the groundwork

Research, drafting, monitoring and evidence tracking are assigned to AI, so the people in the lobby spend their time in the rooms that decide.
Our vision

A world where no people is left to be destroyed while the institutions watch: where every genocide is seen early, stopped, and answered in court, and where justice is measured by the Qur’an, not by power.

Step 1

Warn

Read the ten stages early and raise the alarm before the killing starts.
Step 2

Stop

Cut the arms, the money and the cover that let a genocide go on.
Step 3

Hold to account

Take the perpetrators, and those complicit, before the courts.
Our goals

What we set out to do

Six goals, carried by four plans for the first year.
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Prevent genocide

Watch the ten stages and raise the alarm early, before killing starts.
Genocide Plan
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Stop the killing

Press governments and bodies to end arms supplies, trade and cover for atrocity.
Genocide Plan
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Hold it to account

Bring those responsible, and those complicit, before the courts.
Genocide Plan
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Protect Muslim minorities

Counter Islamophobia and defend communities living under threat.
Muslim Minorities Plan
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Strengthen the family

Restore marriage, parents, children, elders and kin to Islamic principles.
Human-Family Plan
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Restore the person

Mind, heart, soul and self, so justice starts with the one who stands for it.
Human Plan
Human Plan

Restoring the whole person: a twelve-month plan for the community

In twelve months the movement founds six community-owned bodies for zakat, counselling, schooling, accountability, ethics and fair work, and takes proven pilots to the state, scholars and international bodies that can still be moved. It works through shura (consultation) with scholars, mosques and clinicians.
10 goals
15 lobby tasks
11 AI tasks
Read the plan
Human-Family Plan

Twelve months to restore the family on Islamic principles

The 12 months build the community's own working institutions first (a family fund, mediation panels, a riba-free (interest-free) cooperative and a mosque care network) and use them as proof for the state. At the same time the movement takes a drafted Muslim marriage and divorce law, budget proposals and scholarly rulings to the bodies that can still be moved.
10 goals
20 lobby tasks
11 AI tasks
Read the plan
Muslim Minorities Plan

Building a strong, self-run Muslim community in twelve months

In twelve months South Africa's Muslim community builds and runs its own structures: one federation of mosques, a zakat (almsgiving) and waqf (endowment) fund, an interest-free lending cooperative, a legal-defence fund, a rapid-response network, its own media and data, and a counted, registered vote. Protection and the answer to Islamophobia are built into these bodies rather than run as campaigns.
9 goals
17 lobby tasks
11 AI tasks
Read the plan
Genocide Plan

Enforce the rulings already won: a 12-month plan

Over 12 months the Justice Council builds the bodies that enforce what courts and UN investigators have already decided on Gaza and the West Bank, Sudan, Myanmar, the Uyghurs and India's Muslims. It does not seek new rulings, because the ICJ orders, the ICC warrants and the UN findings exist and what is missing is states, markets and societies acting on them.
10 goals
22 lobby tasks
10 AI tasks
Read the plan
Who we will lobby

The institutions we take the case to

56 institutions across the four plans. Open a plan to see them.
Get involved

Stand with us

The Council is being built now. There is a place in it for you.

Volunteer your skills

Lawyers, researchers, writers, translators, designers and developers: tell us what you do.
Offer your skills

Join a lobby desk

Community, national or international: the desks need people who can sit in the rooms that decide.
Ask about a desk

Partner with us

Masjids, organisations, legal firms and relief groups: work with us on a case or a campaign.
Propose a partnership

Spread the word

Share the research and the plans. Every person who knows is one more voice the institutions hear.

Every goal, quarter and task

Human Plan
Human-Family Plan
Muslim Minorities Plan
Genocide Plan
Write to us: info@justicecouncil.org
Justice Council — Steadfast in justice