On Saturday 20th August, MEND Yorkshire was invited to host a stall at Huddersfield Community First’s Annual Funday. The event was attended by hundreds of local attendees enjoying mouth-watering food, a delicious BBQ, entertainment and other stalls selling stunning items. A number of...
On Sunday 28th August, MEND Yorkshire was invited by Masjid Quba Education Centre in Sheffield to deliver a workshop in order to raise awareness of Islamophobia. MEND Yorkshire and Humber Community Organiser delivered the causes and cures of Islamophobia workshop. The workshop aimed to educate the...
On Wednesday 7th September, MEND attended the Rally in Support of Eradicating Racism in Scottish Sport outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. This rally aimed to raise awareness of racism across sport and to pressure the Scottish Government to ensure that the rights of racial minorities are...
Following last night’s intimidating and provocative march by balaclava-wearing, hindutva-inspired, youth on the streets of Leicester, that has tarnished a diverse & cohesive community, MEND urges the police to initiate action with a consultative and community focused approach aimed at...
75 years ago, on August 15th, India gained independence from British colonial rule. As one of the final but damaging acts of the British Raj, this date also commemorates the partition of the Indian subcontinent into the Hindu majority India and Muslim majority Pakistan. Since the division, the...
The Metropolitan Police (Met) has been embroiled in yet more controversy after it emerged that a black man was left gasping for breath following an illegal stop and search incident where the man was allegedly choked. Such an incident comes on the back of a change in leadership following a series of...
For the best part of around a decade, the Conservative party has pledged to update the Human Rights Act (HRA). The legislation allowing us to hold those in power to account in an accessible manner in UK courts is now under threat of being weakened. Speaking on the 800th anniversary of the Magna...
MEND condemns the ongoing Israeli violence against the Palestinian people, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 45 Palestinian civilians, 16 of whom were children, and wounded over 300 others. MEND stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and urges the UK government and the...
On Sunday 31st July 2022 hundreds gathered on a sunny afternoon outside the Chinese consulate in Edinburgh to stand against the atrocities that are being inflicted on the Uyghur Muslims living in China, occupied territories and worldwide. The rally took place in solidarity alongside many across the...
An independent review by Plan4Sport has found damning evidence of institutional racism in Cricket Scotland since former cricket players Majid Haq and Qasim Sheikh came forward about the allegations. Although the entire Cricket Scotland board resigned hours before the report’s publication and...
