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...
Today, 11th July 2020, marks the 25th anniversary of the worst episode of ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War Two – the Srebrenica massacre. In 1995, Bosnian Serb forces surrounded Srebrenica, a town in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, in a matter of five days, slaughtered at least...
In July 1995 Serbian Army forces rounded up 8,000 Muslim men and boys in a supposed ‘safe enclave’ of Srebrenica protected by Dutch UN peacekeepers. They were taken away and murdered in cold blood. It has come to light that, in 1997, the Prime Minister wrote an article challenging Bianca...
In the wake of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s deaths, protest movements across the world emerged seeking a resolution to a longstanding struggle. A struggle against dismantling dehumanising perspectives which institutions are built upon and still enforce. Racism is often...
Recent articles in The Telegraph, The Sun, and the Daily Mail sought to highlight how “half of [the] UK’s imported Covid-19 infections are from Pakistan” – a categorically false and misleading claim based on selective data used to further a specific editorial agenda to scapegoat minority...
In light of the widespread Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced the establishment of a cross-government inquiry into “all aspects” of racial inequality in the UK. It was laudable that the Prime Minister stated the commission on race...
“So my question always to Muslims is that if the Islamophobes are treating us like we are one community, when are we going to start acting like we are one community” Linda Sarsour, Activist, Losing My Religion conference 2019 The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has unleashed a wave of...
MEND Press Release 38 Muslim and equalities organisations have signed an open letter, calling upon all political parties in Scotland to make a commitment to place more Muslim candidates in winnable seats for the Holyrood elections in 2021, as part of the fight against Islamophobia. (The letter and...
We, the undersigned, urge all of Scotland’s political parties to commit to taking tangible actions to address some of the issues raised by the recent findings of the Cross-Party Group (CPG) on tackling Islamophobia. The CPG found some serious issues, namely that 83% of Muslims had experienced...
MEND is concerned with reports that we have received from Hindu and Muslim individuals who are involved in the struggle against politically motivated Hindutva hatred. A female campaigner has been threatened with rape and murder and “slut-shamed” because she has dared to stand up for justice for...
Today marks the three year anniversary of the murder of Makram Ali by Darren Osborne in the Finsbury Park terror attack in 2017. Meanwhile, the threat of the far-right continues to rise, with last weekend seeing 137 arrests made following “sickening” violence by far-right...
