MEND is pleased to announce the release of a new and important briefing paper titled, No Race to the Bottom: Avoiding Further Curbs to Freedom of Speech Under Labour. The briefing argues that our democracy, and particularly freedom of speech, is being put at risk by government actors who...
The European Islamophobia Report 2020 reaffirmed the large extent of Islamophobia in Europe and provided policymakers with the underlying realities of its prevalence in Europe. It concluded that there was no real improvement to Islamophobia in Europe and had “worsened, if not reached a tipping...
Philip Normal, a Labour councillor and the former Mayor of Lambeth, South London, has resigned after the resurfacing of a series of racist and Islamophobic tweets that he sent between 2011 and 2015. In addition to multiple derogatory tweets about Arabs, black and transgender people, he tweeted in...
In the latest case of Conservative Party Islamophobia, former Government Minister Nus Ghani MP claimed that she was dismissed from her role in Government due to her Muslimness. Ms Ghani is merely the latest in a growing list of Muslim Conservative Party members who have spoken up about the...
On the 20th of January 2022, journalist Lee Harpin published a deceitful article in the Jewish News, headlined as ‘Manager at advocacy group MEND shares social media posts uncritical of Taliban’. The rest of the story is just as disingenuous as the headline itself, which references...
The UK Government has published the Independent Human Rights Act (HRA) Review report, after they announced to overhaul the HRA last December 2020. The official review, commissioned by the Conservative government, concluded that the “Human Rights Act works well and has benefited many”, and...
A scene from the newly-released video game, ‘Call of Duty: Vanguard’, depicts pages of the Holy Qur’an scattered on the ground, some of which are smeared in blood. Amidst outcry from Muslim players and game developers, Activision, the Call of Duty franchise publisher, issued an apology on its...
Following the horrific bombing outside a maternity ward in Liverpool on Sunday 14th November 2021, MP for Liverpool Riverside, Kim Johnson, has warned against the abuse being directed at local Muslim communities. Despite the suspect reportedly being a Christian convert, this has not prevented the...
With the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties coming to an end, many are anticipating how business, government and civil society will move forward with their work from the summit. COP26, which began on 31st October in Glasgow, Scotland, saw two weeks of discussions and...
Tory MP, Jonathan Gullis, has said during a fringe meeting at the party’s conference last month that anyone using the term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to the UK Government’s controversial counterterror programme, PREVENT. He then added that teachers who criticise the...
According to press reports, an internal investigation has revealed that Azeem Rafiq, former Yorkshire and England under 19 cricket captain, was the “victim of racial harassment and bullying”, having been subjected to institutional racist and Islamophobic abuse so severe that it...
