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...
Tomorrow will see three years since the murder of Makram Ali by Darren Osborne in the Finsbury Park terror attack in 2017. Meanwhile, the Home Office’s consultation into protecting places of worship closes next Sunday, 28th June 2020. MEND strongly urges mosques, individuals, and...
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to shine a light upon the tragic and preventable deaths of too many people, as well as the role of police in both the deaths themselves and the manner in which these deaths are investigated. Meanwhile, the inquest into the drowning of schoolgirl Shukri...
Coming weeks will bear witness to a series of painful anniversaries that are poignant reminders of the dangers of the far-right. Today is the fourth anniversary of the murder of Jo Cox by Thomas Mair in 2016, while Friday will see three years since the murder of Makram Ali by Darren Osborne in the...
Yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tragedy. We recognise that the deaths were not inevitable. Instead, they were the consequence of a long sequence of socio-political and economic choices made at the expense of vulnerable communities. Austerity measures, introduced by...
In May of this year, 40-year old British Muslim, Raffia Arshad, became the first hijab-wearing woman to be appointed as a deputy district judge on the Midlands circuit. The newly appointed judge says she wants young Muslims to know they can achieve anything they put their minds to and wishes to use...
The Government recently unveiled the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill, saying that it: “will ensure that the sentences served by terrorists reflects the severity of offending and will strengthen the tools for monitoring them in the community.” However, the new bill has been met with much...
In May of this year, the leader of the far-right group Britain First was convicted of a terror offence. Paul Golding refused to hand counter-terrorism police officers the passwords to his phone and laptop hard drive after being stopped at Heathrow Airport in October 2019 upon his return from Russia...
MEND has joined with 84 other civic actors from around the world to protect the rights of stateless individuals. In the UK, refugees face racism, Islamophobia, and discrimination on a daily basis and their rights must be protected. As governments across the world confront the COVID-19 pandemic,...
BBC reporter, Sima Kotecha, was recently forced to cancel a live broadcast after she and her team were “subjected to racist and abusive behaviour” from a member of the public in Leicester. Kotecha was preparing to report live after prime minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown speech on BBC One,...
MEND is full of inspiring and accomplished volunteers. In this contribution, one of our volunteers from Wales discusses the importance of relationship building between the police and local minority communities In the daily lives of most people, the police are perhaps the most visible representation...
