We at JAN Trust have been celebrating International Women’s Day for thirty years this year. Every year we look forward to it not only as a chance to celebrate women and their achievements, but as an opportunity to reflect on society, feminism and the work that we do here. Each International Women’s Day comes with …
The stunt would help to encourage ‘hatred and violence against Muslim women’. JAN Trust has commented on the news that a shooting range in Wallasey has placed images of ISIS supporter Shamima Begum as target practice. Read the article here. PHOTOS of jihadi bride Shamima Begum are being used at a shooting range for target …
“Refusing her the right to return not only shows a failure of our values, but we must also address what message we are sending to extremists” Our CEO Sajda Mughal has spoken out about what she believes should happen to Shamima Begum, a young woman who travelled to join ISIS. Much debate surrounds what should …
“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.
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 ...
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 …
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 common thread among those radicalised, whether it be joining the far-right or Islamic extremist groups is that search for the sense of belonging. Radicalisation is an incredibly complex phenomenon, the reasoning’s behind it occurrence are much debated and can bring fraught divide among experts. Radicalisation arises out of a myriad of factors or issues …
Our CEO Sajda Mughal OBE appeared on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire to speak about a police initiative encouraging the public to report anything suspicious. On Tuesday the 20th of March, Sajda Mughal appeared on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire. She appeared to speak about how we can work to tackle online radicalisation. This is after the …
