{"id":24568,"date":"2017-10-26T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=24568"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:15:50","slug":"local-councillor-wants-views-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/26\/local-councillor-wants-views-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Councillor Wants Your Views On Hate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Waseem Zaffar MBE has teamed up with Tell Mama, an organisation that measure anti-muslim attacks to promote the Birmingham hate crime in the workplace survey.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24571 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-300x152.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-768x390.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-696x353.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-828x420.jpeg 828w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3.jpeg 1005w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to West Midlands Police, reported hate crime in the West Midlands has increased by 28% in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Zaffar said:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I am particularly concerned about hate crime in the workplace and how employers are supporting their employees as victims of hate crime.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is imperative we work together to eradicate the disease of hate crime in all its form from workplaces and society as a whole.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The findings of this survey will be used to inform future campaigns to address hate crime\/discrimination and to support victims.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To take part in the survey please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghambeheard.org.uk\/economy\/birmingham-hate-crime-survey\/\">https:\/\/www.birminghambeheard.org.uk\/economy\/birmingham-hate-crime-survey\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For further information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseemzaffar.com\/campaigns\/\">http:\/\/www.waseemzaffar.com\/campaigns\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See Cllr Waseem Zaffar&#8217;s video about the hate crime survey:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i01n6BNzLdI\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/i01n6BNzLdI<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor Waseem Zaffar MBE has teamed up with Tell Mama, an organisation that measure anti-muslim attacks to promote the Birmingham hate crime in the workplace survey. According to West Midlands Police, reported hate crime in the West Midlands has increased by 28% in the past three years. Councillor Zaffar said: &#8220;I am particularly concerned about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[117,452,451],"class_list":["post-24568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-cllr-waseem-zaffar","tag-hate-crime-survey","tag-tell-mama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}