Home Department Minister statement on hate crime
19 July 2016
Karen Bradley MP, the Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for the Home Department, made a statement on 29 June 2016 regarding hate crime.
Karen Bradley MP, the Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for the Home Department, made a statement on 29 June 2016 regarding hate crime.
The Tell MAMA Annual Report for 2015 finds that the number of offline incidents [of anti-Muslim hate] has trebled.
Scotland’s Prosecution Service published a report on hate crime in Scotland from 2015-16 on 10 June 2016. The report brings together figures on crime motivated by prejudice.
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) produced a report ‘Forgotten Women’ on the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim women in June 2016.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its 2015 annual report in May 2016.
On 11 May 2016 the Youth Select Committee announced a new inquiry into racism and religious discrimination. The deadline for submissions passed on 31 May 2016.
The Kantor Centre for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University published its 2015 general analysis of anti-semitism worldwide in May 2016.
The first edition of the annual European Islamophobia Report (EIR) was published in May 2016. It recommends that Islamophobia be recognised as a crime and included in national statistics across Europe.
Maslaha and T2A have produced a report Young Muslims on Trial. The report is a scoping study on the impact of Islamophobia on criminal justice decision-making.
In 2016, Citizens UK launched the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation & Public Life.