The recent announcement of an independent review into the Human Rights Act follows many years of Governmental opposition to the current framework protecting human rights in the UK. The review also emerges amid increasing attacks from government ministers and supporters regarding the powers of the...
Get Out And Vote (GOAV) is looming large for all at MEND at this time. With all making plans and strategies on how best to ensure that the community is interacting with the political sphere and politicians are engaging with the Muslim Community. This same is taking place North of the border in...
We updated you all at the end of last year about the outstanding engagement from Edinburgh University during Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM). But the work has not stopped there and the University has continued to look for ways that it can improve in tackling Islamophobia in all areas. Please see...
On Monday 1st February, MEND Manchester presented to members of the UoM ISoc to explain to them the volunteering opportunities within the organisation. We were happy to speak to a large group of students and take them through the volunteer journey that MEND offers. During the presentation, we...
On Friday 19th and Saturday 20th February, we presented our Causes and Cures of Islamophobia workshop to our volunteers as part of their ongoing education and training in their journey with MEND. Here at MEND, we work hard to invest in our volunteers including through educating and training them on...
Around one million Uyghur Muslims are being held in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang, China. In reality, these camps are being used to imprison the Uyghur population with the aim of destroying the Uyghurs as a people. There are daily reports of beatings, solitary confinement, sexual abuse,...
Several human rights organisations have published a joint statement criticising the controversial appointment of William Shawcross as Head of the PREVENT review, and outlined an intention to boycott the review. The 17 organisations include MEND, Amnesty International, Liberty, and the Runnymede...
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, express grave concern at the UK government’s appointment of William Shawcross as the new reviewer of the counter-terrorism strategy Prevent. Shawcross has been appointed to replace Lord Carlile, who was removed from the post following a legal...
Three steps to tackling phobia within our community In the light of the shocking revelations contained in the report published by the Labour Muslim Network (LMN), highlighting the extent of Islamophobia experienced by Labour members from within its ranks, Shockat Patel (Chair of the Leicester...
Leicester Grammar School. “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”...
