Last month, more than 30 organisations and academics with a track record of campaigning against violence against women and girls wrote an open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to express concerns about the PREVENT strategy and its infiltration into domestic violence services. The letter...
MEND is proud to be a signatory to the Traveller Movement’s open letter to Priti Patel condemning her criminalisation of communities. Criminalising minority groups on the basis of protected characteristics such as race or religion can only serve to demonise communities and further entrench...
Earlier this month, it was revealed that a top pro-Israeli lawyer faked a vandalism attack at his home last year in a plot to smear the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC). Unfortunately, such disreputable campaign tactics have often been routinely utilised by pro-Israel groups to smear...
On Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September 2020, we held inductions for new volunteers for our MEND Oldham Working Group. The Oldham WG formed this year to locally address Islamophobia in a strategic and efficient manner. In order to make sure that we are working positively and able to complete the...
On Thursday 17th September, MEND Preston set up a meeting with the Hate Crime and Cohesion Unit at Lancashire Constabulary. The team felt it was important to arrange this meeting to discuss how the work we’re doing locally can overlap with the work of the unit, especially with Islamophobia...
Umar and Rahema, Chair and Vice-Chair of Cardiff Working Group, presented MEND’s Causes and Cures (C&C) presentation to Race Equality First (REF). REF has over 40 years of experience as the recognised lead body in South Wales for tackling discrimination and hate crime. The C&C was...
On Monday 21st September, MEND Blackburn met with Dr Claire Coyle of the Local Medical Committee to discuss how the two can work together towards addressing Islamophobia as part of the local LMC’s larger strategy to address racism within General Practice. The LMC have locally put out a survey to...
MEND Press Release: Over 40 faith-based, community, and equalities organisations have signed an open letter to Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) following serious allegations of racism. According to Azeem Rafiq, who played for the club between 2008 and 2018, his experiences of racism at the club...
Over 40 faith-based, community, and equalities organisations have signed an open letter to Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) following serious allegations of racism. In recent weeks, both Azeem Rafiq and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, have reported institutional and systematic racism while playing for the...
Britain First, whilst seemingly having disappeared into obscurity over the last years, have once again garnered infamy in mainstream media by “invading” hotels, castigating the defenceless and vulnerable, and manipulating facts. Tactics which helped them cultivate a network of far-right...
