A local group which helped create a newly released guide to navigate and report incidents of hate and discrimination in Waterloo have yet another tool to offer from their growing kit to combat rising incidents of hate and discrimination.
The Coalition of Muslim Women Kitchener Waterloo worked with city staff and other community partners such as the Community Justice Initiatives, as well as the regional police services to create the guide.
The new toolkit includes the Coalition’s online “Hate or Discrimination Documentation and Reporting Service”, which is accessed at reportinghate.ca and receives hate incident and discrimination reports from across the country.
Sarah Shafiq is the director of programming and services for the Coalition of Muslim Women KW, an organisation which is described on its website as “a small, but mighty group of racialized Muslim women that have been standing up to hate, discrimination, Islamophobia, and gender-based violence since 2010.”
Shafiq spoke to CKMS News about the services that the group offers, its partnerships with the city of Waterloo and the regional municipality, and the surge in reports of anti-semitic, anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic incidents reported in the past month.
