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...
British Muslims form the second largest faith group in the UK. The Office for National Statistics released figures estimating at least 3.4 million British Muslims, constituting 5.9% of the total population of England (ONS 2018; ONS 2020). Britain’s Muslims are younger in age compared with the...
On Tuesday 19th January, the Government narrowly won a vote in Parliament to defeat changes to the Trade Bill that would have outlawed trade deals with countries that the High Court rules are committing genocide, such as China against the Uyghur population. If passed, the amendment would have...
During November, several mosques in the UK received hateful Islamophobic letters following a string of attacks in France including the attack outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices which wounded two people, the beheading of a schoolteacher who showed Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures of the Prophet...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to re-examine the continuing hardships that the pandemic places on different groups, including the significant hurdles faced by students in the UK– particularly those from BAME backgrounds. Following...
MEND urges MPs to set aside partisan loyalties and vote in favour of amendments to the Trade Bill that will empower the British High Court to determine whether genocide is taking place in places such as China against the Uyghur Muslim population. The vote, scheduled for today (Tuesday...
London – In a first of its kind, a global coalition of civil society organisations are submitting a forensic complaint to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) against France, requesting that it open a formal infringement procedure against the government for systematically entrenching...
Once an outlandish apocalyptic idea cliched in Hollywood action movies, the recent attack on the US capitol brought into stark view just how fragile US and Western democracy is. Videos of the attack on what is meant to be one of the most fortified public buildings in the US, the Capitol, continue...
Earlier this month, a 22-year-old student was assaulted while outside the library of Edinburgh University in what the police described as a “despicable” racist attack. The unnamed student was subjected to violence and a barrage of racial slurs, with one attacker even attempting to hit him over...
Accusations of institutional racism have been levied against the handling of the tragic case of Shukri Abdi, who died in 2019. The drowning of the 12-year old school-girl has been ruled accidental after the conclusion of a recent inquest. Shukri Abdi, who first came to the UK as a refugee with her...
Peter R. Neumann, a senior counter-terrorism professor at King’s College London (KCL), is currently under investigation after his Islamophobic encounter with Dr Tarek Younis, an early-career Muslim academic, during a Twitter exchange. Professor Neumann’s actions were unbefitting of an...
