Today is International Bystander Awareness Day! We're proud to partner with The FA to roll out football-specific Active Bystander training through the FLAG IT initiative, helping people across the game recognise harm and intervene safely. Read more: protectionapproaches.org/news/f/flag-...
For any questions, please email equalities.partnership@protectionapproaches.org📩
Please share widely with equalities groups in your networks to ensure they are part of this key forum 👥⚖️
The Equalities Partnership will towards a variety of objectives including:
🔹Strengthening inclusive emergency planning
🔹Advocating for system change
🔹Building collaboration between equalities groups & decision-makers
This work has been developed in consultation with more than 8️⃣0️⃣ equalities and resilience stakeholders, to ensure it reflects a diverse range of community perspectives and needs💡
The Partnership brings together equalities organisations to shape how London prepares for and responds to emergencies, making sure communities facing inequality are central to resilience planning 🏙️📝
🚨Launch: London Resilience Equalities Partnership🚨
We’re excited to be launching the London Resilience Equalities Partnership to support inclusive emergency preparedness & response efforts🗣️🤝
Recruitment is now open for members & two co-chair roles. Apply & learn more below ⬇️
tinyurl.com/bdhpswbd
This is why over the last year, we’ve been working together to produce a 10-point Manifesto for Change that includes practical, evidence-based policies that can transform the way we respond to hate.
📖 Read the manifesto in full here
📈 The past decade has seen spiralling levels of hate crime. Official stats show incidents have more than tripled in England & Wales. With just 1 in 4 victims reporting incidents, we know that this is the tip of the iceberg.
Yet, the government hasn’t released a Hate Crime Action Plan since 2016.
🚨NEW: last week we launched our Manifesto for Change with our wonderful colleagues at University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies at Labour Party Conference
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📢 Continuing our focus on transnational repression (TNR), FPC Research Fellow Dr Saipira Furstenberg examines the challenges democracies face in confronting authoritarian TNR.
She explores policy gaps, risks to human rights, and why coordinated, rights-based strategies are essential. ⬇️
As we mark one year since the tragic murder of Alice, Elsie, and Bebe at a children’s dance class in Southport, our thoughts are with their families as they continue to grieve.
We reflect on how what followed became, for many, a moment of national reckoning 💭
💡 Excellent piece by our Trustee Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy on Gaza & the reckoning between humanitarianism & protection
"We must rethink the role of international and local humanitarian actors in providing protection without abrogating the fundamental responsibility of states to provide it."
We look forward to both working with and toward government to help realise the Covenant’s vision and to ensure that civil society continues to play a central role in shaping a fairer, safer future for all. 🤝
🧾 The Covenant sets out a commitment to:
- Designing & delivering policy in partnership with local communities
- Respecting civil society’s independence
- Investing in long-term collaboration through sustainable funding
- Embedding inclusive participation to strengthen social cohesion & resilience
It was great to be at the launch of the government's new Civil Society Covenant last week.
A timely and important step toward building more equitable relationship between government and communities. 🧵
💭 The broader challenge remains: mass atrocity crimes are becoming a systematic feature of modern malign statecraft, used deliberately to destroy, displace & entrench power.
As this kind of violence increasingly shapes geopolitical realities, the UK must update its approach accordingly.
She noted that the UK's approach to atrocity prevention has not been updated since 2019, despite the increasing use of identity-based atrocity violence against civilians.
✅ FCDO Minister @catherinewestmp.bsky.social acknowledged the concern & committed to taking the issue forward - a welcome step.
📺 This week during an Urgent Question to the Foreign Secretary on the UK's response to the worsening situation in Sudan, @melanieward.bsky.social MP raised an important question about the UK’s approach to preventing & responding to mass atrocity crimes. 🧵
❗ Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 12th September ❗
Find out more about the programme here 👇
Successful applicants will co-design & implement a hate crime prevention or victim support project funded up to £5,000.
Organisations will increase their knowledge & understanding of hate crime, developing the skills they need to support & advocate for victims 🤝
🚨 We are launching a new programme offering micro grants to community organisations to lead anti-hate initiatives!
As part of our Design. Build. Act. programme, we are inviting 10 community-based organisations in London to co-design & deliver new anti-hate initiatives with funding & support.
This is about more than identifying challenges, it’s about recognising strengths, opportunities & ideas for positive change.
These learnings will guide our work with stakeholders across Stoke-on-Trent as we co-design a new Community Cohesion Strategy for the city 🤝
Find out more 👇
🚨 We're excited to be leading a major community listening exercise across Stoke-on-Trent, commissioned by the One Stoke-on-Trent Board.
From June to September 2025, we'll be engaging with people across the city to hear about their lives, challenges, hopes and ideas for the future.
For over three months Israel deliberately blocked life-saving supplies. It controls who eats, who moves & who survives.
Palestinians are starving. Many are killed in line.
The world is watching.
We've joined 200+ organisations to demand an end to this deadly scheme.
#CeasefireNOW #EndTheSiege
The new Israeli-US backed distribution scheme forces Palestinians in Gaza into militarised zones just to access food.
Food is now fenced, scanned and weaponised. This is not humanitarian aid.
It is a system of forced displacement, surveillance, and mass violence, disguised as relief.
Last month we launched a new paper with @csns-uk.bsky.social exploring the future of UK national security & foreign policy amid rising authoritarianism & systemic competition.
It argues we must rethink how the UK integrates human rights into its strategic outlook.
Read more 👇
If you or your organisation work primarily with/for marginalised communities in London, we want to hear from you on how London crisis preparedness & response can better centre the perspectives and needs of your communities! 🤝
Get in touch to share your thoughts today🗣️⬇️
You can also:
🗣️ Email farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org to schedule a chat
✉️ Email your thoughts to farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org
If your group or organisation works primarily with/for marginalised communities, communities who face additional barriers in crisis, or individuals with protected characteristics as per the Equalities Act, we want to hear from you 💭
You can:
