** 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,...
Priya Shetty in The Guardian’s Comment is Free writes on the Home Affairs select committee report on forced marriages arguing that women are often as culpable in the perpetuation of oppressive cultural practices, like forced marriages, as men who enforce codes of “honour” in minority...
The Prince’s Trust have released a report today, “Broke, Not Broken: Tackling youth poverty and the aspiration gap”, on the importance of addressing social immobility in the UK and its impact on Britain’s youth. Professor David Blanchflower in his introduction to the report argues that...
The Press Complaints Commission yesterday published its annual review for 2010. You can read the review, broken down by month, here. Key statistics for 2010 are outlined below: 7,000 – The PCC received well over 7,000 complaints in writing last year, although this figure includes multiple...
The Home Affairs select committee, chaired by Keith Vaz MP, has published a report on Forced Marriages in which they call for sterner action against individuals who “force—or to participate in forcing—an individual to enter into marriage against their will.” The committee recommends the...
The Evening Gazette reports on public order arrests following a disturbance near the Jamia mosque in Darlington, County Durham involving individuals thought to be members of the English Defence League. From the paper:“Two Teessiders were arrested after a “large scale disorder” near...
The Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, has reported on “Operation Gird,” the name given to the Metropolitan Police’s action against six Muslim men who were accused of “a plot to kill the Pope.” Mr Anderson in the report released yesterday...
The BBC programme “The Big Question” on Sunday asked “Does Britain have a problem with Muslims?” Watch the panel comprising Dame Anne Leslie, Maajid Nawaz, Director of the Quilliam Foundation; Salma Yaqoob, Respect party councilor at Birmingham Council; and Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim...
Paul Richards, former political advisor to Hazel Blears MP, reflects on the exchange between Alan Johnson MP and the Prime Minister in the Commons last week concerning the Conservatives’ stated policy to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir. Richards argues in an article on Progress that the long-awaited...
Amnesty International has published the “State of the World’s Human Rights” report 2011. Surveying progress in the field of human rights protection around the world the report takes into account the vast disclosures from Wikileaks and the role of the internet and social media in...
The Independent on Sunday this week featured Robert Chalmers’ interview with US blogger, leading architect of the ‘Stop Islamization of America’ movement, and EDL enthusiast Pamela Geller. From IoS: “You may not have encountered the writing of Geller, one of the more controversial...
