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Reform MP Sarah Pochin Uses PMQs to Promote Divisive Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
MWNUK is deeply troubled by newly elected Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s decision to use her first parliamentary question at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) to call for a ban of the burkha.
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Peer calls on UK government to urgently fund culturally specific domestic violence services
Baroness Shaista Gohir says focusing on issues like FGM overlooks intimate partner abuse and calls for victim support run ‘by and for’ Black and Asian women.
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Anti-Islamophobia group Tell Mama should face inquiry
Leading Muslim peer Shaista Gohir questions Tell Mama’s use of public funds, creating debate over its role, accountability and future due over concerns about a “lack of transparency” on how it is spending public money.
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SPRING BUDGET – Government welfare cuts will push people further into poverty
Muslim Women’s Network UK is deeply concerned about the devastating impact of the disability benefit cuts announced in the Chancellor’s Spring Budget Statement. It is appalling that the government plans to halve the Universal Credit health element allowance for new claimants and then freeze it.
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