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...
With Islamophobia on the rise, mosques across the UK are recognising the need to understand ways to tackle and report the crime. On 19th January, Birmingham’s Jamia Masjid and Islamic Centre, invited MEND to give a presentation to its congregation, staff and imams on the causes and cures of...
MEND Midlands began 2020 by accepting an exciting invitation to NASUWT BME Conference in Hilton Hotel, Birmingham. On the 18th January MEND held a stall, exhibition and delivered workshops at the annual NASUWT BME Conference, hosting approximately 500 hundred teachers. Workshops covered how and why...
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...
MEND regional manager Sahar Al-Faifi, participated at a panel organised by the Welsh Assembly, celebrating Gwlad: 20 years since the devolution and discussing whether the Senedd is equal for all women. Joined the panel the first women AMs who played a big role in establishing the Senedd and making...
Finsbury Park Mosque has been subject to a number of hate crimes over the past few years. The Mosque Committee and MEND joined together to host a ‘Responding to Hate Crime’ seminar for women by our Islamophobia Response Unit. According to the IRU’s research women are 24%...
Schools are the place where one’s knowledge and foundations are built. Working with schools to deliver presentations on Islamophobia and educating the young people as well as the parents is a key way in which MEND aims to tackle Islamophobia. Recognising it as an issue in our society and...
