Bond statement in response to UK far-right riots
Bond has released a statement in response to the appalling, racist and Islamophobic riots taking place across the UK over the past week:
Marginalised communities fleeing violence, conflict, climate change, and poverty deserve to feel safe, whether they are seeking refuge here in the UK or anywhere else in the world. We stand in solidarity with local communities across the UK who are supporting each other during these devastating times, and are pushing back against racist, Islamophobic rhetoric and violence, as well as the systemic racism that underlies it.
ENDS.
Notes to editors
- Please refer to the HOPE not hate website, whose mission is to work tirelessly to expose and oppose far-right extremism and the Runnymede Trust who have been working tirelessly for racial justice in Britain for over 50 years.
- At Bond we’re working to transform the UK NGO sector, we are prioritising work on how both we as an organisation and sector need to make the tackling and dismantling of racism a priority since it is embedded and manifests across the international development sector. Our free online resource, Anti-racism and decolonising: a framework for organisations maps out how systemic racism manifests across all areas of the international development sector and supports organisations to build anti-racist practices and to make steps to decolonise the sector. In Autumn 2024, we will also launch resources on applying anti-racist & decolonial approaches to policy and advocacy in international development.
- Bond is the UK network for organisations working in international development. Bond unites and supports a diverse network of over 350 civil society organisations from across the UK, and allies to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice.
- For further information or interviews please contact Jess Salter at [email protected] or call 07493200979.
