The UK’s first dedicated reporting portal for anti-Hindu hate incidents is being launched on Thursday 14 May, as researchers and community leaders attempt to address what they describe as a major gap in the country’s hate crime monitoring system.
The Anti-Hindu Hate Monitor (AHHM), developed by the International Centre for Sustainability (ICfS), aims to document and analyse incidents affecting Hindus and other Dharmic communities across the UK, including Jains and Sikhs. The initiative comes amid growing concerns within sections of the Hindu community that incidents of discrimination, abuse and hostility are increasing but remain underreported and poorly understood.
Speaking to Asian Voice exclusively ahead of the launch, Ornicha Daorueng, researcher and Head of the Future of Faiths Desk at ICfS, said the project was born out of a need for reliable evidence.
ICfS’s research last year on perceptions of anti-Hindu hate and discrimination found a strong sentiment within Hindu communities that hostility towards them was rising. Yet despite Hindus making up around one million people in the UK – approximately 1.6 per cent of the population – there is currently no formal mechanism dedicated to collecting data on anti-Hindu incidents.
While antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate are widely monitored and discussed, anti-Hindu hate has received far less attention
“At present, there is no official definition of anti-Hindu hate in the UK,” she explained. “Without a definition, there is no policy guidance or reporting framework. Incidents can easily be treated as isolated acts rather than hate incidents connected to religion.”
The AHHM aims to change that by creating a centralised reporting system capable of documenting both the scale and nature of incidents. The portal records cases across nine categories, including assault, vandalism, threats, hate speech, discrimination, online abuse and anti-Hindu literature.
The platform is designed to collect documented incidents, which ICfS believes will carry greater weight with policymakers, law enforcement agencies and local authorities. The organisation plans to publish reports every six months and annually, with its first report expected by the end of this year.
Ornicha stressed that the portal has been designed as an independent, third-party initiative focused on data collection rather than activism or direct victim support. “We want to understand whether there is a wider issue, what form it takes, and how meaningful policy recommendations can be developed in response,” she said.
The system itself has been modelled on reporting mechanisms used by organisations such as the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitic incidents, and Tell MAMA, which records anti-Muslim hate. ICfS also consulted CST while developing the platform.
Challenge to persuade diaspora to report hate incidents
However, a key challenge lies in persuading the diaspora to come forward to report the hate incident that they have faced.
Ornicha said many Hindus hesitate to report incidents because they fear being seen as overreacting, are unfamiliar with reporting processes, or lack confidence that reporting will lead to meaningful action.
“So, there are really three barriers: fear of being dismissed, uncertainty about the process, and lack of confidence in the system,” she said.
To address those concerns, the portal has been designed to be simple and accessible, with clear definitions explaining the difference between categories such as hate speech and discrimination. Users can select multiple categories when reporting incidents, while ICfS will also carry out backend verification and data cleansing to improve accuracy.
The organisation hopes community outreach will help build trust over time. Although the platform is named the Anti-Hindu Hate Portal, Ornicha said it was intended to reflect a broader “Hindu civilisational tradition” that also includes other Dharmic communities.
“In many cases, the people carrying out these incidents do not distinguish between whether someone is Hindu, Jain or from another Dharmic background,” she said. “The ignorance and prejudice affect all of these communities alike.”
ICfS hopes the portal will eventually become a recognised resource for documenting incidents across the country. The platform includes geographic markers and location categories, allowing incidents to be mapped by city and region, with more detailed classifications in areas such as London.
For Ornicha, however, the initiative is as much about visibility as it is about statistics.
“Without data, communities cannot push for policy changes or meaningful action,” she said. “The goal is for people to know this platform exists, so that when incidents happen, those experiences are properly documented and understood.”
The Anti-Hindu Hate Monitor (AHHM) reporting portal is being launched at a panel event on 14 May 2026, bringing together Krupesh Hirani, Nilesh Solanki, Ornicha Daorueng from the ICfS, Varinder Hayre from CPS, and a representative from CST for the discussion.
AHHM definitions of-
Hate Crime: Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's race or perceived race; religion or perceived religion; sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation; disability or perceived disability; transgender or perceived to be transgender identity.
Hate Incident: Any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.
This means evidence of the hate element is not a requirement. You do not need to personally perceive the incident to be hate related. It would be enough if another person, a witness or even a police officer thought that the incident was hate related.
Anti-Hindu incident: Any malicious act aimed at Hindu people, Hindu organisations, or Hindu property, where there is evidence that the act has anti-Hindu motivation or content, or that the victim was targeted because they were, or believed to be, Hindus.
Incidents can take several forms, including physical attacks on people or property, verbal or written abuse and threats, or anti-Hindu graffiti, leaflets or posters. Incidents can also include social media postings if they involve a UK-based offender or victim.
