Posts Tagged: Home Office

‘I survived 7/7 bombings after getting on London Underground in a different place as I was late – now I help mums who have lost their sons to ISIS’

‘I survived 7/7 bombings after getting on London Underground in a different place as I was late – now I help mums who have lost their sons to ISIS’

JAN Trust CEO Sajda Mughal OBE, spoke to My London about her traumatic experience of surviving the 7/7 London bombings and what has changed — and what hasn’t changed — on counterterrorism, seventeen years on.   Read more here or below. In the wake of the devastating terrorist attack 17 years ago that claimed 52 …

Migrant rough sleepers face threat of deportation

Migrant rough sleepers face threat of deportation

The government have relaunched a controversial programme which gives them the possibility of deporting migrants who are sleeping rough. We have previously written about the government’s response to rough sleeping and homelessness during COVID-19 with the ‘Everybody In’ programme. As we feared, it was a short-term solution, and now the government are making the lives …

Hope for the Hopeless: The Lasting Effects of Forced Marriage

Stripped of hope and choice the lasting impact of forced marriages shreds the mind and body of its victims, creating a gradient effect onto their offspring.  Embed from Getty Images Sexually transmitted diseases, violence (both physical and sexual), psychological torment, loss of freedom, and fear along with so many other disastrous effects encompass just some …

JAN Trust CEO Sajda Mughal OBE makes statement on independent Prevent review

JAN Trust CEO Sajda Mughal OBE makes statement on independent Prevent review

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, …

A call to break away from forced marriage

“I will not be a victim for my parents’ honour and reputation. I will not live in shame. I am now free.” The right to choose who you marry, when you marry and if you marry is a fundamental human right which needs to be safeguarded under all circumstances. Forcing someone to marry is illegal in …