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...
The world of sport has long been seen as a forum through which barriers of all kinds – geographical, political, religious, and historical – can be broken down. As several studies show, Muslim communities in the UK are overwhelmingly perceived in a negative light. Indeed, over a third of...
On Sunday the 9th of February, Europe faced a scathing storm, labelled as storm Ciara which wreaked havoc throughout the UK. Meanwhile, more storms expected in the coming days. In November of 2019, South of Yorkshire, and Doncaster specifically, experienced significant floods after warnings were...
The annual Holocaust Memorial Day was marked on the 27th of January as a time to remember the millions of individuals who were murdered during the Holocaust by a Nazi regime that actively worked to spread hatred and division. However, Holocaust Memorial Day is also a time to reflect on all victims...
Oxford University recently announced that more than 22% of undergraduates starting a course with them in 2019 were from BAME backgrounds – up from 18% the previous year. Whilst the higher BAME population at such a reputable institute of higher education is undoubtedly great news and worthy of...
Lord Sheikh asks the Government what progress they have made towards the adoption of a formal definition of Islamophobia. Read the full transcript on Hansard here.
Over the centuries, ‘science’, or more accurately ‘pseudoscience’, has often been used by prejudicial, racist and supremacy-aligned actors to justify their views and hates. As contemporary far-right movements again utilise an array of pseudoscientific facts, individuals are starting to...
A BME teachers conference organised by NASUWT found rising levels of covert racism in schools, with over half (54%) of attendees saying that they had experienced verbal or non-verbal racism in the last 12 months. A 2017 Runnymede Trust report similarly reported that more than twice the...
February 1st, 2020, will mark the seventh annual World Hijab Day(WHD) in recognition of and in solidarity with millions of Muslim women around the world who choose to wear the hijab. The movement was initially started by a New York resident of Bangladeshi origin, Nazma Khan, who came up...
Over recent decades, a number of high-profile cases have highlighted the continued prevalence of the sexual exploitation of children. These include cases from a range of contexts including the entertainment industry, the socio-political elite, and in small towns and cities. The idea of...
Newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the Muslim population of England has increased by around 16% in five years, from 2.7 million in 2011 to 3.1 million in 2016. This means Muslims now make up 5.6% of England’s population. The positive contributions of...
