Don’t miss it! Amnesty International survey on Prevent and human rights
If you haven’t answered the Amnesty International survey on Prevent, this is the last week to do so.
25 January 2023
The People's Review of Prevent
The People’s Review of Prevent is an alternative review to the Government Shawcross Review.
This review provides a voice to the people most impacted by the Prevent Duty.
Prevent is described as ‘safeguarding’ children from harms. However, under Prevent, safeguarding is focused on protecting the wider public from children believed to be ‘risky’, rather than protecting children from harms.
Throughout our report we present case studies that show how real these harms can be and the distress they cause to children and their families and carers.
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Multiculturalism and Prevent: Why ‘British values’ must not be a weapon
We assert the need for a new notion of “British values” that suits the universal character of our population in this excerpt from the People’s Review of Prevent.
17 January 2023
The Guardian: UK risks being listed among human rights abusers, NGO warns
The UK government could soon make the list of human rights abusers with its “outright assault” on the rights of its own citizens and aggressive roll-back of protections such as on the right to assemble and protest. This is according to the international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). “The shrinking civic space is not relegated to countries far away,” said Tirana Hassan, the acting executive director of HRW. “When you come to the UK, you look at the very worrying trend we are seeing. A slew of legislation was passed last year where fundamental human rights are being challenged. The protest law is something we are deeply concerned about.” Hassan said HRW had identified a “worrying trend” by the UK government of proposing laws that violate human rights and significantly weaken protections. “When you talk about civic space and about people’s right to participate in a democratic society, the right
13 January 2023
Expert View: The Prevent strategy is not about preventing terrorism
An excerpt from the People’s Review of Prevent, on the Prevent strategy and children’s rights, data collection, bogus claims of ‘success’ and why Prevent must be delinked from Manchester.
13 December 2022
The Expert View: Prevent, Data Collection and Children’s Rights
The UK’s Prevent counter-extremism strategy involves data collection and retention that makes it a vast form of surveillance that can remain with a person for life, even when that person
7 December 2022
Birmingham Live: Muslim cops want term ‘Islamist’ removed from counter terrorism policy
The National Association of Muslim Police is now publicly calling for an update of policing and counter terrorism terminology, with the term Islamist to be replaced by ‘anti-western extremism’ or something similar. It has also raised concerns about the disproportionate number of Muslims being referred to Prevent, the government’s counter extremism programme – with the West Midlands among the highest. Alex Gent, Chairman of the NAMP says Islamophobia remains an issue in wider UK policing. The group cited cases where Muslim officers had been referred to Prevent wrongly by their own colleagues after religious pilgrimages or following acceptance of Islam. The group says it has previously raised concerns over the use of ‘Islamist’ and ‘Islamism’ with police chiefs and politicians, including with former Home Secretary Priti Patel. But it has now gone public after no agreement to drop the words. Source: Muslim cops label counter terrorism policing ‘Islamophobic’ – Birmingham
15 November 2022
The demography of ethnic minorities in Britain: A chapter on the UK’s increasing diversity
This chapter ‘The demography of ethnic minorities in Britain’ was used as a reference in the People’s Review of Prevent to disprove the first argument used for Prevent: “social cohesion”.
7 April 2020
Leaving the War on Terror: Suggestions for Progressive Alternatives
This forward-looking report by the Transnational Institute offers an account of the failures of current counter-terrorism policies, an analysis of the reasons why they fail, and “a progressive alternative”.
16 September 2019
The Rise and Restraint of the Preventive State
The rise of the Preventive State assumes security as a core function; this journal article considers the drivers, multiple manifestations, and consequences of preventive policies for criminal justice.
7 February 2019
RICU and Prevent: CAGE’s ground-breaking report ‘We are completely independent’
Nobody had heard of RICU and its use under Prevent, until this report revealed how the Home Office uses a secret unit to push state-scripted narratives on “grassroots” groups.
25 May 2016