At the start of New Year, it is natural to reflect on and consider how the year has been. Needless to say 2018 has been an incredible and busy year for us at JAN Trust! We’ve had some amazing highs, including working on vital social change projects and celebrating the achievements of our women! However …
“I’m a Muslim woman and I don’t need saving” – Sajda’s interview with Baroness Warsi
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.
What is Another Way Forward?
By now, we are sure that you have heard of our project Another Way Forward: Empowering Young Women against Extremism. This is a project, run by JAN Trust, that has been kindly been supported by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD), and Google.org. ISD works to empower new generations against extremism, something that we at JAN …
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 …
JAN Trust’s impact on countering extremism
JAN Trust has paved the way for the role of women to be taken seriously in society, and especially when it comes to countering extremism. We have recognised the importance of women in protecting their children from online radicalisation and extremism since 2010. Our work with women began 30 years ago in 1989 when our …
Sajda Mughal comments in Arab News
Our CEO Sajda Mughal has appeared in Arab News. She speaks about the issues that some wives were married through an Islamic marriage have gone through. Read more here.
One JAN Trust employee’s experience of Islamophobic hate speech
One of our employees was subject to anti-Islamic rhetoric whilst carrying out off-site research outside Westfield shopping centre in Stratford in March. Her story illustrates how normalised and ubiquitous anti-Islamic sentiment is and how much work still needs to be done to tackle Islamophobia in this country. Earlier this year, I was working on an …
The importance of integration
The long awaited government’s integration strategy is broad and ambitious in many ways, and most notably it successfully recognises that true integration relies on the involvement of all parties – integration is a two way street. The burden should not be placed on minority communities, social divisions exist across many intersections, class, age, gender, race, religion – …
Violent Extremism and Gangs; widely divergent goals inherent similarities
Although it is clear that the violent extremist and gangs differ vastly in their overall goals there are definitive similarities that can be drawn between the two groups. There are many similarities that can be drawn between violent extremist groups and criminal gangs. There are many obvious parallels. Both groups involve illegal activities, especially violence …
The UK’s violent crime epidemic hits BAME communities hardest
The rates of violent crime in UK are on the rise, with knife crime rising by 20%, gun crime rising by 21% and London’s murder rate overtaking New York’s. However, it is marginalised members of BAME communities who are most at risk of being both victims and suspected of this violence. It is vital that these marginalised communities are made aware …