In the media

Anjum Rahman. Image: Acquity Magazine — Anjum Rahman. Image: *Acquity Magazine*

Difference makers of 2020: Anjum Rahman FCA

Anjum Rahman FCA looked for the most effective way to counter hate after 51 Muslim worshippers were murdered in Christchurch.

Police Commissioner Mike Bush. Image: Stuff.co.nz — Police Commissioner Mike Bush.
*Image: Stuff.co.nz*

Police Armed Response Teams dumped because they 'created fear', documents show

The documents, released under the Official Information Act, show police commissioner Andy Coster wrote to district commanders shortly before abolishing the trial.
Stuff.co.nz

Anjum Rahman from the Islamic Women’s Council reacts to the Christchurch Mosque attack sentencing
Radio NZ Audio

Justice Cameron Mander. Image: NZ Herald Focus — Justice Cameron Mander.
Image: *NZ Herald Focus*

'Kia kaha NZ': Muslim community reacts to killer's sentence

Muslim community members have hailed mass murderer Brenton Tarrant's life sentence without parole with a mixture of relief, vindication and a 'kia kaha' shoutout of thanks to their fellow New Zealanders.
Otago Daily Times

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'Victims will have a voice' at sentencing for Christchurch mosque attacks

For the first time since the Christchurch mosque attacks that claimed 51 lives, the victims will have their voices heard in court.
Stuff.co.nz

From left: Annette Mortensen, Anjum Rahman and Paul Spoonley

Racism and Discrimination: webinar

Anjum joins this webinar to discuss racism and discrimination towards people from refugee, religious and ethic minority backgrounds in New Zealand.

RASNC Trust

Image: Philanthropy News — Image: *Philanthropy News*

Left behind in an increasingly digital world

Anjum Rahman, writes about the inequities and inequalities further revealed in our move to the online world in response to Covid-19. Diversity in designing and implementing solutions is needed to bridge the digital divide.
Philanthropy News (page 12)

Screenshot: Belong Aotearoa — Screenshot: *Belong Aotearoa*

PassTheMic Media Hui

This online hui inspires and helps build the capacity of communities, organisations and individuals to proactively engage different forms of media, to promote diverse voices and support community harmony.
Belong Aotearoa

A life spent dedicated to making a difference

Anjum Rahman CA is working tirelessly to advocate for the under-represented and conquer hate.

Chartered Accountants Australia & NZ

Note* The article incorrectly states Anjum founded the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand. Anjum was a founding member of IWCNZ.

Anti-semitic attack, October 19. Image: The Spin Off — Anti-semitic attack, October 19.
Image: *The Spin Off*

Murder as ‘spectacle’: the alarming links between the Christchurch attack and those that followed

Since March 15 2019, a string of lone actor, far-right copycat atrocities provide important clues to the kind of transnational, online movement we now confront, writes Emanuel Stoakes.

The Spin Off

OAR FM Dunedin Radio Interview

Anjum talks with OAR FM Dunedin about the project, upcoming road trip and conversations in Dunedin.
OAR FM

Photo: Stuff.co.nz — Photo: *Stuff.co.nz*

Anjum Rahman is searching for where we belong

Anjum talks with Britt Mann about her work campaigning for the rights of those whose voices often are not heard.
Stuff.co.nz

TECHWEEK: Auckland University of Technology — TECHWEEK: *Auckland University of Technology*

TECHWEEK - Shouting Zeros and Ones

“The division between on and offline is becoming blurred. Online problems are spilling into the real world. The role of implicit bias and algorithmic data analysis and the way that can reproduce existing injustices and imbalances ...”
Auckland University of Technology

Image: The SpinOff — Image: *The SpinOff*

On the internet, freedom for some never means freedom for all

Kathy Errington introduces a conversation with Anjum Rahman on online harm, an extract from the upcoming BWB text Shouting Zeroes and Ones, edited by Andrew Chen.

The Spin Off

Image: The Daily Blog — Image: *The Daily Blog*

Alternative Aotearoa LIVE STREAM

Watch the live stream of this one-day seminar with speakers including Anjum Rahman.

The Daily Blog

Al Noor Mosque. Image: Spin off / Getty Images — Al Noor Mosque. Image: *Spin off / Getty Images*

‘Everything was in place to ignore us’: Officials ‘uninterested’ in Muslim community’s pre-March 15 warnings

The Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand said it repeatedly warned the government an attack like that on March 15 last year was possible. Today, it released the evidence.

The SpinOff

Image: Earth Beat Festival NZ — Image: *Earth Beat Festival NZ*

Transforming Uncertainty into Action

Community leader and human rights activist in New Zealand. Founder of the Inclusive Aotearoa Collective, Anjum Rahman on how we can collectively transform uncertainty into action.
EarthBeat

Al Noor Mosque. Photo: Radio NZ — Al Noor Mosque. Photo: *Radio NZ*

Mosque gunman's interview 'needs to be shared with the wider public'

Muslim leaders are calling for an interview with the man convicted of killing 51 members of their community to be made public.
Radio NZ

Anjum Rahman shares her Aotearoa 2020 Vision
Anjum speaks about Inclusive Aotearoa Collective’s engagement with communities across Aotearoa to develop a national inclusion strategy and a constellation of cross-community networks to support belonging.
Aotearoa 2020 Vision

Todd Foundation Annual Review 2019

In 2019, the Todd Foundation joined the rest of the country united in grief following the shootings at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch on 15 March. The Todd Foundation has made a long-term commitment to supporting a truly inclusive society and is working with others to achieve this goal.

Image: Spinoff.co.nz — Image: *Spinoff.co.nz*

Why do we gather? To pull a more just and beautiful future towards us.
The force that underpins the oppression of African Americans is the same force that underpins the oppression of Māori and Pasifika, writes Laura O’Connell Rapira.
Spinoff.co.nz

Image capture: IPANZ — Image capture: *IPANZ*

Social inclusion and community empowerment

IPANZ talks with Anjum Rahman of the Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono about rethinking social inclusion and community empowerment in the public sector.
IPANZ

Image: Newshub.co.nz — Image: *Newshub.co.nz*

Farmers pleased with amendment to firearms bill
Farmers are rejoicing after Labour agreed to an amendment in the firearms bill that will allow the use of restricted guns for pest control. This follows a report claiming the Christchurch gunman was wrongly granted a firearms licence.
Newshub.co.nz

Getting to know Anjum Rahman and her latest Project
The Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tāhono project was developed to bring a more strategic, connected and comprehensive approach to belonging and inclusion in Aotearoa.
Cancer Society Northland newsletter

Photo: Raglan Community Radio — Photo: *Raglan Community Radio*

Anjum Rahman - Conversations on Belonging and Inclusion

We talk to Anjum Rahman ahead of her visit on Wednesday to lead a conversation about a national strategy for belonging and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Raglan Community Radio

Photo: The Spinoff — Photo: *The Spinoff*

‘Stop immortalising a legacy of murder’: Which NZ statues need to be toppled?

Around the world, statues, monuments and place names forged in colonialism and racism are coming under scrutiny, writes Anjum Rahman.
The Spinoff

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron address the press on the Christchurch call at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 2019. Photo: Yoan Valat/AFP/Getty Images

A year on, the Christchurch Call must go beyond ‘don’t livestream mass murder’

Regulation of online content has received little attention amid a global health crisis. But violent extremist activity has not stopped, and we need to get our response right, writes Anjum Rahman. The Spinoff

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Paris following a civil society event as part of the Christchurch Call summit. Stuff.co.nz — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Paris following a civil society event as part of the Christchurch Call summit. *Stuff.co.nz*

Christchurch Call to Action: One year on

Anjum Rahman, spokesperson for the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand and a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network, said the fact copycat attacks overseas hadn't gained the same sort of online traction as the Christchurch terror attack showed the Call had made a difference. Stuff.co.nz

Armed police during a raid on the Headhunters Gang in 2015 (Getty Images): The Spinoff — Armed police during a raid on the Headhunters Gang in 2015 (Getty Images): *The Spinoff*

For the sake of all minority communities, don’t bring armed response policing back

The six-month trial of police armed response teams, introduced in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, ended on Sunday. An evaluation is expected in June, but we don’t need to wait until then to know that routinely arming police isn’t the solution, says Anjum Rahman. The Spinoff

Photo: Photo 123RF (Radio NZ) — Photo: *Photo 123RF (Radio NZ)*

Mosque attacks: 51-second silence on 15 April aims to promote peace

On 15 April, Jews, Christians and Muslims around the New Zealand will fall silent for 51 seconds to remember the mosque attacks in Christchurch. Radio NZ

Al Noor Mosque: The Spinoff (Getty Images) — Al Noor Mosque: *The Spinoff (Getty Images)*

There is relief. There is anger. And there is still a demand for answers

This morning the Christchurch shooter changed tack and entered a guilty plea to 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder and one under the Terrorism Suppression Act. We can now call him what he is: a terrorist. But there are questions that still need to be addressed, writes Anjum Rahman.

Anjum Rahman: Stuff.co.nz — Anjum Rahman: *Stuff.co.nz*

White supremacy rises in New Zealand after March 15 terror attack

The threat of white supremacist violence appears to have increased in New Zealand after the March 15 terror attack. Stuff.co.nz

The Project Australia

It’s almost a year since the horrific Christchurch terror attacks, where a gunman shot dead 51 people at two mosques in the usually peaceful city. Waleed Aly is in Christchurch in the lead up to Sunday’s anniversary. The Project

Anjum Rahman: Newshub.co.nz — Anjum Rahman: *Newshub.co.nz*

March 15 anniversary: Racism, religion and hate in New Zealand

The events of March 15, 2019, sent shock waves through our country, forcing Kiwis to question if New Zealand had a festering underbelly of hate which had been ignored. Newshub.co.nz

Al Noor Mosque: Now to Love — Al Noor Mosque: *Now to Love*

One year on from the Christchurch shootings:

'It takes a village - those affected still need love and care' We spoke to those who've been deeply affected – some who lost loved ones and others who became accidental heroes. Now to Love

Anjum Rahman: We can do better

Leading up to the Christchurch mosques atrocity a year ago, Anjum Rahman was one of our Muslim voices drawing attention to the growing, worldwide danger from those obsessed with white “superiority”.

She’d argued for years that this country had no immunity. And, since the March 15 attacks, she’s renewed her efforts to help all New Zealanders develop a sense of belonging. e-Tangata

Mirrors and monsters

We don’t need an anniversary to pray for those who died, to honour the suffering of those who survived. But are we ready to face the complexity of the changes that are needed? An essay by Anjum Rahman. The Spinoff

Guled Mire, a former refugee from Somalia who arrived in New Zealand as a 6-year-old. Stuff.co.nz — Guled Mire, a former refugee from Somalia who arrived in New Zealand as a 6-year-old. *Stuff.co.nz*

Christchurch mosque attacks: One year on, prominent Kiwis issue a call for peace

It's been a year since the Christchurch mosque attacks. On this day we asked community leaders, change makers, and experts what small changes Kiwis can make that can spread peace. We asked, what small change can we make that might make a difference? Stuff

We thought, finally, the hate would stop

OPINION: We thought it would change everything. We thought the loss of 51 men, women and children would shake everyone out of their complacency. We thought, finally, the hate would stop. Stuff.co.nz

Al Noor mosque from South Hagley Park in Christchurch. Photo / Mark Mitchell — Al Noor mosque from South Hagley Park in Christchurch. *Photo / Mark Mitchell*

Christchurch mosque shootings: 'We need justice,' says Islamic Women's Council

The Muslim community whose safety concerns were largely ignored before the March 15 attacks hope the Royal Commission of Inquiry will reveal the shortcomings of the public service - and lead to reform. New Zealand Herald

Credit: David Olsen Photography. Foundation North’s G.I.F.T Mauri workshop at ŌRĀKEI MARAE – NGĀTI WHĀTUA ŌRĀKEI.

Re-imagining a better world: how eight organisations are using design to achieve social impact

In the world of social innovation everyone needs to embrace a designer’s mindset. Judith Thompson and Jade Tang-Taylor profile eight innovative initiatives using design to achieve social impact. Idealog

Watch: The AM Show interviews people who have been impacted by NZ's darkest day. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Image - Getty / The AM Show — Watch: The AM Show interviews people who have been impacted by NZ's darkest day. Credits: Video - The AM Show; *Image - Getty / The AM Show*

Christchurch mosque attack: Survivor's message to the alleged gunman

As the one-year anniversary of New Zealand's darkest day approaches, this week marks a time of reflection for survivors of the Christchurch shooting who continue to battle mental and physical scars. Newshub

Jacinda Ardern leaves after the Friday prayers at Hagley Park outside Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva — Jacinda Ardern leaves after the Friday prayers at Hagley Park outside Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand March 22, 2019. *REUTERS/Jorge Silva*

One year after mosque massacre, New Zealand is fighting rising hate

Days before the first anniversary of a shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers, a post appeared on an encrypted messaging app showing a balaclava-clad man outside one of the attacked mosques with a threat and a gun emoji. Reuters

*Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace last year. Photo / AP*

Christchurch mosque shootings: The big change driven by the little country

It was hailed as an unprecedented response to an unspeakable act of terror. But one year on from the attack that left 51 people dead, has the Christchurch Call to Action made any difference .. NZ Herald

*Anjum Rahman and St Paul's Union Church Taupo reverend Lorelle Chapman. Photo / Rachel Canning. Rotorua Daily Post.*

Muslim community leader attends Love Heals in Taupō

She lists off the recent acts of violence towards Muslim women in New Zealand and sounds Kiwi-as. That's because she is. Rotorua Daily Post

One year after mosque massacre, New Zealand is fighting rising hate

Islamic Women's Council say police and spy agencies 'failed' to protect Muslims

Muslim women leaders have called on the security forces to extend their intelligence gathering of the alt right and white supremacists both here and overseas. Stuff.co.nz

Anti-discrimination movement Aotearoa Collective calls for Government-led strategy

An anti-discrimination movement wants to build a national strategy to bring Kiwis together. Anjum Rahman launched Inclusive Aotearoa Collective two months after March 15.

Christchurch terror attacks, a year later w/ Anjum Rahman

Anjum Rahman is a spokesperson for the Islamic Women's Council. This group announced shortly after the March 15th terror attacks that they had been trying for years to warn authorities of the very real threats the Muslim community was facing. 95bFM

Radio NZ Morning Report

Islamic Women's Council seeks apology from State Services Commissioner

The Islamic Women's Council is seeking a personal apology from the State Services Commissioner for the failure of the security services to protect the Muslim community. Radio NZ

Ignored by the state - How Muslim women tried to warn of impending danger

The Islamic Women's Council believes it's likely the Christchurch mosque attacks would never have happened if the public service - including police and security agencies - had not ignored their repeated warnings. The council has shared its concerns with the Royal Commission into the shootings, which is sitting behind closed doors, and has spoken exclusively with RNZ Insight.

*Jacinda Ardern features on the cover of the 2 March issue of TIME magazine. Photo: Twitter/ @TIME / Djeneba Aduayom*

Praise of noble contributions by white women 'felt more like erasure'

Opinion Radio NZ - Last week, Jacinda Ardern and Jennifer Ward-Lealand were praised for their noble contributions to our country and world.

The Prime Minister graced the cover of USA's TIME magazine while Ward-Lealand was bestowed 2020's New Zealander of the Year.

Both women have done incredible things, their positive contributions spanning politics, workers' rights, mental health, film, theatre and television respectively.

So why did TIME magazine, the New Zealander of the Year Awards and so many other media outlets decide to focus on Ardern and Ward-Lealand's work regarding indigenous communities and people of colour?

Where tangata whenua meets ethnic minorities

Anjum Rahman from the Islamic Women's Council on why increased engagement between ethnic and religious minorities and tangata whenua is important. Radio NZ