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...
Racial and Religious Equality Commit to adopting the definition of Islamophobia produced by the APPG for British Muslims: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”, and apply this definition in conjunction with the...
Today is International women’s day. It is a time to recognise and celebrate incredible women around the world. But it is also a time to reflect on the inequalities that women continue to face as well as the suffering of many of the most vulnerable women in the world. Amongst these women, are...
The recent announcement of an independent review into the Human Rights Act follows many years of Governmental opposition to the current framework protecting human rights in the UK. The review also emerges amid increasing attacks from government ministers and supporters regarding the powers of the...
Around one million Uyghur Muslims are being held in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang, China. In reality, these camps are being used to imprison the Uyghur population with the aim of destroying the Uyghurs as a people. There are daily reports of beatings, solitary confinement, sexual abuse,...
Several human rights organisations have published a joint statement criticising the controversial appointment of William Shawcross as Head of the PREVENT review, and outlined an intention to boycott the review. The 17 organisations include MEND, Amnesty International, Liberty, and the Runnymede...
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, express grave concern at the UK government’s appointment of William Shawcross as the new reviewer of the counter-terrorism strategy Prevent. Shawcross has been appointed to replace Lord Carlile, who was removed from the post following a legal...
In the midst of a pandemic that has highlighted the importance of identifying and tackling the structural inequalities that minority communities face, the urgency of investigating issues of structural and institutional Islamophobia is of ever-greater importance. Central to understanding the way...
The Trade Bill that is currently going through Parliament is a potentially valuable instrument for holding countries committing genocide to account. Essentially, proposed amendments provide a mechanism for Parliament to scrap trade deals with states found by the High Court to be committing such...
Today, the Government announced that William Shawcross is to be the new Independent Reviewer of PREVENT. This comes as a devastating announcement to all those whom had hoped for a truly independent and transparent review into a fundamentally flawed strategy that continues to detrimentally...
Today, the Government announced that William Shawcross is to be the new Independent Reviewer of PREVENT. This comes as a devastating announcement to all those whom had hoped for a truly independent and transparent review into a fundamentally flawed strategy that continues to...
