“I very much welcome the announcement from the Government, but I do hold my breath with regards to just how independent and unbiased this will be.” JAN Trust CEO, Sajda Mughal OBE, has written recently for the Metro about the governments Prevent strategy, after an announcement from Security Minister, Ben Wallace of an independent review of …
Yesterday, the government announced that the UK’s Prevent counter-extremism programme is to undergo an independent review. The review, to start within six months, was proposed by the House of Lords as an amendment to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill. Our CEO Sajda Mughal OBE has been lobbying for this decision along with other organisations such as Amnesty International, …
“I hope that the Prevent department of the Home Office realises the mistake it has made cutting funding for Web Guardians. If it’s good enough for Google, then why not for government?” Nazir Afzal, patron of JAN Trust, has written in the New Statesman about the work JAN Trust supporting us to counter-radicalisation through our flagship Web …
Read our piece in The Guardian for an insight into our CEO’s working week at JAN Trust! It is tough work but rewarding in order to improve the empowerment of women in the UK and to prevent issues such as hate crime, radicalisation and extremism. Read more here. Read more of our news here.
Our CEO Sajda Mughal OBE has appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi. They had an in-depth discussion of her 7/7 experience and her life as a Muslim women in British society today. Click here to listen! To read more press that JAN Trust has appeared in, click here.
“Terror Survivors like myself are being consistently let down and treated with disregard by the government.” Our CEO Sajda Mughal has spoken out about the lack of NHS mental health support for survivors of terror attacks in The Independent. As a co-founder of the network Survivors Against Terror, this is an issue close to Sajda’s …
JAN Trust has appeared in the Metro, proud to be one of the many organisations supporting the fight for trans equality. We have appeared alongside Amnesty UK and Stonewall. We believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity & respect, free from hatred and hostility and are happy to support equality in the UK. …
JAN Trust Director, 7/7 Survivor and Counter-Extremism expert Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken to The Metro about the ISIS ‘The Beatles’, the death penalty, the Prevent strategy and what needs to happen. Sajda Mughal survived one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in the UK and has dedicated her life to preventing extremism. Even though terrorists tried …
“I chose to dedicate my life to countering terrorism in my own community as a direct result of surviving the 7/7 London bombings. I had little idea at the time what an arduous journey I was about to embark on.” JAN Trust Director, 7/7 Survivor and Counter-Extremism expert Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken to The …
“This inflammatory language will in fact motivate and fuel hate crimes” CEO Sajda Mughal has spoken out against MP Boris Johnson’s comments, who stated that Muslim women who wear the burqa look like “letterboxes” and bank robbers. Read about what Sajda has to say here.
