New Home Office figures have just been released and show that the number of hate crimes leapt by 41% in the month after the vote to leave the European Union. The data, collated from 31 police forces showed that in the two weeks prior to the referendum, including the day of the referendum itself (23rd… Read more Hate Crime incidents soar in wake of Brexit vote
Our Chief Executive, Rose Simkins was featured on ITV Calendar News last night, discussing the rise in Post-Referendum Hate Crime and the Stop Hate UK West Yorkshire Reporting App. For more information on our Reporting App click here.
We are very pleased to announce that Stop Hate UK is now in a position to publish its Strategic Plan for the period April 2016 to March 2019. We have covered a lot of groundwork and planning in setting out our strategy, as we seek to continue our work with people who are affected by… Read more A Vision to ‘Stop Hate’ – Stop Hate UK Strategic Plan
It’s been a week since the LGBT hate crime in Orlando and to be perfectly honest I’m still not sure what to say. I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community and I was devastated when I woke up last Sunday to hear what had unfolded during the Latinx night at Pulse nightclub. I attended… Read more I Will Keep Fighting – Reflections a week on from Orlando
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In our diverse capital city we ALL need to be aware of hate crime… As Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in London it was really important to me that my organisation took part in Hate Crime Awareness Week and supported Stop Hate UK. We are all fortunate to live in a hugely… Read more 20 Years of Challenging Hate #9: by Baljit Ubhey OBE, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS, London
At twenty-three I had never volunteered for anything before, never mind been on a training day! So the whole process was not only new but also ever so slightly terrifying. I hadn’t come through the usual channels that people go through in life to get here. Before a few months ago I had never heard… Read more 20 years of challenging hate #10: Why I am who I am by Maxx Lee
Hi, my name is Ian and I am the Reporting Analyst at Stop Hate UK. It is my job to collate all the contact data and present it to commissioners and funders in a format that informs about helpline activity but hopefully also enlightens. I may be responsible for producing the tables and charts, but… Read more 20 Years of Challenging Hate #7:Numbers are a wonderful thing but as Einstein said, it’s all relative! From walking the beat to riding horses and supporting victims of Hate Crime by Ian Davey
If you have a job you love, it is said you never have to do a day’s work in your life. Although a cliché, working for Stop Hate UK in my role I would say that is true. As a Helpline Operator, I generally opt to work the ‘graveyard shift’ – working through the night,… Read more 20 Years of Challenging Hate #6: I want to be a ……Helpline Operator by Samara Michael