Equality and Human Rights

We can’t claim liberation or gender equality for women if we don’t recognise and eradicate racism.  The Black Lives Matter movement was started by women – Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi – in response to institutional racism.  Many of the historic movements for women’s rights were started/led by Black women, whose names are…

Within Muslim communities there often exists a hierarchy, whereby some Muslim communities may be overlooked or forgotten. Often, this includes Black Muslim communities who face intersecting oppression by virtue of their race and their religion. Impacts of colonialism continue to have an effect not only on countries’ economies and governance, but on cultural and social…

By: Issmat Ahmad And…ACTION! In my few years of experience, I have realised one of many things – firstly that my passion won’t come to me if I just think hard enough (and believe me, I tried!) And two, discovering my potential will only surface from experimenting, and volunteering became the gateway for this to…

World Hijab Day happens every year on 1st February. When you look on the campaign website you can find images of Scottish politicians supporting this initiative. Labour MSP Anas Sarwar says ‘I support #WorldHijabDay because it’s a woman’s right to choose.’ Hijab simply refers to a barrier, or to modesty and everyone’s personal interpretation of…

By: Sara McHaffie Most of us reading this will be of an age where we’re used to taking in most of our information by text. We read books, newspapers, magazines, blog posts! Things are changing, and in general, younger people get a lot of information through images. Videos, meme images, a newspaper photo alongside the…

  ‘There is one race, and that is the human race’ No matter how many times we say the above, there are a minority amongst us who continue to spread hate.  It is unfortunate that based on what makes us unique and different, people continue to discriminate and oppress – whether that is because someone…