Our CEO Sajda has appeared in Grazia magazine to speak about the lack of support available for terror victims after her experience in the London bombings in 2005. This is in the wake of the Sri Lanka attack in which over 200 people died. Read the piece below:
“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 CEO, Sajda Mughal OBE has spoken out over concern she has about the current counter-terror strategy, Prevent. Mughal has worked with the programme for over a decade. She is urging the government to take urgent action to commission an independent review of Prevent, in order to “establish its effectiveness and the benchmarks for …
Sajda Mughal, CEO of the JAN Trust has united with others to form a group, Survivors Against Terror, to counter extremism. The Survivors Against Terror network was launched in January of this year, a first of its kind network, of family members who have lost a loved one to terror and survivors of terror attacks. …
Sajda Mughal, a 7/7 survivor, has spoken about the Manchester terror attack in the press and how the country must remain united in the face of terrorism. Read more here: Manchester attack: London 7/7 survivors pledge solidarity as they warn against fear and hate. Read more here. Terror attack survivor’s message to Manchester: ‘Stay strong. …
