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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jgdelqjSxM Professor Conor Gearty, one of the UK’s leading human rights scholars and a much-loved teacher, colleague, and friend, died on 11 September 2025, aged 67. A founding member of Matrix Chambers...
The Evening Standard: Midwife brings claim against trust after Prevent referral over Palestine posts
A midwife is bringing an employment claim against a hospital trust she worked for after it lodged a Prevent referral over Palestine posts supporting Palestine and criticising Zionism, her lawyers have said. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital...
A new community-led investigation into the 2022 unrest in Leicester has concluded that imported Hindutva extremism, systemic Islamophobia, and policy failures were key drivers behind the violence that rocked one of Britain’s most diverse...
A new scheme to detect people who are obsessed with violence before they kill should be considered by the government, an official report into the Prevent strategy will say. The report into Prevent has been compiled by David Anderson KC, the...
In the toxic discussions around Muslim integration, the ‘fear of being called racist’ has been used during the Trojan Horse Affair and at the same time as the excuse for failures to act on child sexual exploitation. Prof. John...
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has released the advanced edited version of their report into children’s right to be safe in education, including a paragraph relating to Prevent in schools that drew from a submission...
Rights and Security International (RSI) and Prevent Watch back Springwatch star Chris Packham’s campaign to overhaul Ofsted’s approach to autistic people and their referral to the government’s counter-extremism scheme, Prevent. On 10 June...
TV presenter Chris Packham has called out Ofsted for linking autism and extremism in a “discriminatory” and “extraordinarily inaccurate statement” made in their Prevent-related training document, reports the Huffington Post. His comments...
The Westminster government has announced that it intends to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. In a statement to the House of Commons, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said that Palestine Action had a “long history of...
Prevent Watch Director Layla Aitlhadj draws out the real implications of the latest Home Office statistics in relation to the Prevent strategy – here are three important things the latest referrals numbers tell us. Each year the Home...
Legal guidance compels the Prevent duty in Scotland so public authorities must implement the policy. A closer look at key differences in their approach provides insights for action and directs us to the organisations resisting the Prevent...