“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 ...
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 …
On Thursday night, I attended the Heathrow Airport’s European Diversity Awards 2018 awards ceremony where JAN Trust and I were both nominated in the categories of ‘Community Project of the Year’ and ‘Campaigner of the Year’. I was thrilled that we were even be shortlisted from 60,000 nominations as this renowned awards ceremony aims …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
