** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
Last week marked nine years since Norwegian right-wing terrorist, Anders Breivik, killed 77 people. Of the 77 killed by Breivik, 69 were mainly adolescents who were massacred on the island of Utoeya, while eight were killed as a result of a bomb he detonated in a government block in Oslo. As we...
Following Humza Yousaf’s speech in the Scottish Parliament on 10 June, where he expressed solidarity with the protests and campaigns linked to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice was subjected to over 6,000 abusive social media posts in just one...
The Black Lives Matter movement has gained international attention and momentum in recent months, and while it took the killing of George Floyd in the US to trigger the most recent waves of protests, the UK is not immune to issues of inequality embedded within the Criminal Justice System. This...
The Government has stated that the purpose of the Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill 2019-21 is to “better protect the public from terrorism by strengthening the law which governs the sentencing, release and monitoring of terrorism offenders”. However, equalities and rights groups across the...
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...
