Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Great to see our work with the University of Leicester, Manifesto for Change, on the table at their event with Kick It Out. Kick It Out is also our great partner in delivering tailored active bystander training, so it was especially meaningful to see this collaboration highlighted. 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tomorrow at #Lab26: Dr Kate Ferguson joins the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations to discuss how Labour can rebuild UK leadership in international development. With Michael Jacobs, Baroness Armstrong & Ade Adeyemi MBE. 📅 29 Sept, 12–1pm, Room 4A, Convention Centre Join us if you're around! 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Joining #LabourConference? Our Co-Executive Director Kate Ferguson will join UCL Policy Lab and the Gates Foundation to discuss: can progressives reshape the case for cooperation? Protecting people abroad and at home is one agenda. Sun 27 Sept 4pm at Derwent Pod. See comment for registration link. 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Last week, we launched our new strategy and announced Nick Martlew as our Chair 🎉 If you haven't already, please read our new Strategic Plan 👉 protectionapproaches.org/strategy-202... 001
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026💬 People affected by hate crime must be central to tackling it. Last week our Stronger Communities team joined Brent Council's Disabled People's Empowerment Month, sharing our free hate crime awareness and active bystander training across Brent. Free sessions this September and October 👇 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today we launch our Strategic Plan 2026–2029: Protecting People and Democracy in an Age of Division. We’re also proud to introduce strategy and collaboration specialist Nick Martlew as our new Chair of Trustees. Identity-based violence is not inevitable. Read our new plan (link in comment) 110
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Join our free online hate crime awareness training for frontline staff and volunteers across London. Learn how to recognise hate crime, support those affected, and signpost to reporting and support services. 📅 20 Aug | 17 Sep (More dates coming soon!) 🎟️ Register link via Eventbrite in comment 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 05/08/2026PA's Co-Executive Director, Kate Ferguson, joined ODI Global Think Change Podcast to discuss accountability in foreign policy and what a more accountable approach to decision-making could look like. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: Link in comment 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Catch up on our recent appearance on The Bunker, “Musk will tear us apart? – The national security emergency we need to tackle”, where we discuss how malign actors are attacking British society, and what we can do about it. Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Today, a Tibetan man has died after an apparent act of self-immolation outside the UN headquarters in New York, reportedly in protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law.” Read Benedict Rogers’ article in The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...telegraph.co.uk 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Join our #ActiveBystanderTraining and learn how to safely and confidently respond to situations such as hate crime, harassment, prejudice, and anti-social behaviour, with a focus on supporting those affected. Register now! Spaces are free: bit.ly/4w3C69k 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We repeatedly warned: El Fasher’s fall to the RSF would bring catastrophe, offering the UK government options to avert mass atrocities. Ultimately our warnings failed, tens of thousands were killed. Dr Kate Ferguson from PA asked 3 critical questions in the #InternationalDevelopmentCommittee: 410
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026One thing is clear: threats to our democratic assets cannot be met with tanks on the lawn and drones in the skies alone. This was at the heart of the evidence given by PA's Co-Executive Director, Dr Kate Ferguson, to the #ForeignAffairsCommittee inquiry into cuts to the #IntegratedSecurityFund. 000
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 12/06/2026PA's Co-Executive Director, Dr Ferguson, gave evidence to #ForeignAffairsCommittee's inquiry into cuts to the Integrated Security Fund. She argued that conventional defence aren't enough to meet the changing nature of anti-democratic statecraft. Cohesion must be a core part of national security. 043
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Today 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-...protectionapproaches.orgFlag It - Active Bystander Training in partnership with the FAOn a recent episode of the Safeguarding Matters podcast from Ann Craft Trust, Protection Approaches’ Co-Executive Director Andy Fearn spoke about a major national partnership with The Football Associa... 011
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 30/01/2026🚨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/bdhpswbdequalitiespartnership.orgLondon Resilience Equalities PartnershipEqualities at the heart of London's emergency planning and response 110
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 07/10/2025🚨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 🧵 100
Reposted by Protection ApproachesForeign Policy Centre @fpcthinktank.bsky.social · 06/08/2025📢 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. ⬇️ 111
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 04/08/2025As 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 💭protectionapproaches.orgOne year on - reflecting on the UK's racist riotsAs 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. 020
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 31/07/2025💡 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."odihpn.orgThe Gaza crisis demands a humanitarian reckoning | Humanitarian Practice NetworkWe cannot afford to give up on Gaza – nor on the principles and responsibilities that define humanitarianism itself. 021
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It 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. 🧵 120
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 18/07/2025📺 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. 🧵 112
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 16/07/2025🚨 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. 101
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 09/07/2025🚨 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. 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The 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. 110
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Last 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 👇protectionapproaches.orgPA publishes policy paper on national security and rightsThere are varied competing demands that feed into any state’s foreign policy and national security strategy. This policy paper addresses the relationship between rights and grand strategy at a time of... 011
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 26/06/2025If 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🗣️⬇️ 010
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 25/06/2025✨NEW PROJECT LAUNCH✨ We're very excited to share that we have been commissioned by @ldnresilience.bsky.social to create a new Equalities Partnership within the #LondonResilienceForum🏙️ If your group or organisation works primarily with/for marginalised communities, you can get involved today! 🧵⬇️ 111
Reposted by Protection ApproachesCentre for Statecraft & National Security @csns-uk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025🗓️ We are co-hosting an event with @ibvprev.bsky.social on June 18th! Join us as we examine the changing role and capabilities of the FCDO and reflect on Labour’s first year of foreign policy with Kate Ferguson, Lord Peter Ricketts and John Bew Read more & sign up here: icsr.info/2025/06/05/c... 003
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 20/05/2025🤝 Protection Approaches is working with Brent Council to strengthen the community's understanding of hate crime & how to support those affected. We're offering free training workshops for community groups & undertaking local research to better understand the experiences Brent’s diverse communities.protectionapproaches.orgPA launches new hate crime support project with Brent CouncilProtection Approaches is working with Brent Council and local partners on a project to strengthen community understanding of hate crime and how to support those affected. This work includes a programm... 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Our wonderful HRW colleagues are in court this week challenging UK arms exports to Israel. The intent to destroy & displace the Palestinian people by the Govt of Israel cannot be ignored. The UK government must immediately cease all arms exports - including F-35 parts being used in Gaza right now. 021
Reposted by Protection ApproachesGlobal Centre for the Responsibility to Protect @globalr2p.org · 12/05/2025🚨 #Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid to #Gaza since 2 March. The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The inter'l community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility. #DiplomaticConvoyNow #LetAidIn www.globalr2p.org/publications...globalr2p.orgUnified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now - Global Centre for the Responsibility to ProtectPalestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international commu... 145
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 07/05/2025📺 We were proud to welcome BBC News to one of our Active Bystander training sessions last month. We gave Tom Edwards and the team a closer look at how everyday Londoners are learning the skills to respond to identity-based harm. 100
Reposted by Protection ApproachesTom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025What's it like to be hunted? Our latest investigation reveals the worldwide reach of China's authoritarian rulers. #ChinaTargets @icij.org @hopenothate.org.uk www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comRevealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UKSocial media incitement following last summer’s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exiles 13218
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 28/04/2025💼 @onyoursideuk.bsky.social is recruiting an Outreach Officer! Based at Protection Approaches, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing & delivering key initiatives to raise awareness of On Your Side among ESEA communities across the UK. 📣 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 22/04/2025📣 We're working with Brent Council and local partners to strengthen local communities' understanding of hate crime. We're offering free training workshops for community and faith groups - alongside local research - to better understand the experiences and ideas of Brent’s diverse communities 👇 121
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 16/04/2025This week, as we mark the second year of the war in Sudan, and on the day of the UK Sudan Conference, Protection Approaches, @avaaz.bsky.social @hrw.org & @una-uk.bsky.social held a press briefing. It was both a call to conscience and a demand for action. 110
Reposted by Protection ApproachesHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 19/03/2025In yet another crackdown on LGBT rights, Hungary’s parliament has passed a law that will outlaw LGBT Pride and similar events. The law, which penalizes organizers and attendees, also authorizes the use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees. 14240108
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 18/03/2025To mark National Active Bystander Awareness day, we are proud to be working in partnership with @transportforlondon.bsky.social to deliver free Active Bystander training for passengers on the network 🤝bbc.co.ukTraining to deal with harassment on London's transport networkIt's part of plans to help deal with harassment on London's transport network. 100
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🚨 With aid cuts threatening civil society, the UK Atrocity Prevention Working Group has written to the Foreign Secretary, urging the govt to to safeguard civil society leadership in this time of crisis & strengthen our collective commitment to preventing atrocities. 111
Reposted by Protection ApproachesHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/03/2025Did you know more than 400 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe in the past 3 months? The EU’s policy of deterrence by drowning is abhorrent. #WithHumanity Join thousands calling on the EU to save lives: hrw.org/WithHumanity#sign_the_petitionhrw.org#WithHumanityWe are calling on the European Union to protect the lives and rights of people on the move. Take Action. 112041
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 25/02/2025🆕 Launched today: The @coopparty.party.coop's "Stories from Community Britain" campaign 🤝 ✊ Seeking to reclaim the role of our communities as a serious political and economic force, the campaign makes the case that communities are not just the feel-good afterthought politics has often made them.party.coop 100
Reposted by Protection ApproachesCo-operative Party @coopparty.party.coop · 25/02/2025Today, we're launching our vision to put communities at the heart of politics. Community Britain is about making the extraordinary stories in every community, ordinary. Read more from @fortunejf.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/thehouse/artic… 01212
Reposted by Protection ApproachesOn Your Side @onyoursideuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025📢 We Need Your Support! 🙏 Since 2022, OYS has dedicated 4k+ hrs to supporting 600+ ESEA victims of racism and hate. But we urgently need to raise fund to continue this vital work. W/o help, many may lose access to support. ❤️ Donate or start your own fundraiser: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/onyoursideuk 022
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It was a pleasure to partake in this event last week to mark LGBTQI+ history month. The rollback of LGBTQI+ rights around the world has clear implications for the health of our democracy and security. We must seek to dismantle these transnational networks of hate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 041
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 19/02/2025we are happy to be partnering with Calm Mediation to deliver interactive online workshops about Restorative Justice (RJ) and hate crime. These sessions are for community-based organisations in London. You can read more and sign up here: tinyurl.com/3rmabfbmtinyurl.comRestorative Justice after Hate CrimeThese workshops are for organisations working with communities affected by or who may be affected by hate crime. Find out about restorative justice services in London and share your views on how the s... 100
Reposted by Protection ApproachesCity Bridge Foundation @citybridgefndn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Hate crime in London: supporting the victims & preventing the crime. Powerful, short blog from Szymon Glowacki at Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social about working with community-based organisations. Work supported by City Bridge Foundation. www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk/news-and-blo... 012
Reposted by Protection ApproachesHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 04/02/2025President Trump said the US will measure success in part by "the wars we never get into," but he promptly lifted a pause on 2,000-pound bomb shipments to the Israeli government. The US will be complicit in the Israeli government’s abuses in Gaza so long as it provides arms and other military aid.hrw.orgSuspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli AbusesThe United States will be complicit in the Israeli government’s grave violations in Gaza so long as it continues to provide arms and other military aid, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of a meetin... 517753
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 28/01/2025We welcome the 2️⃣ #ICC arrest warrants issued for #Taliban leaders, for crimes against humanity targeting #Afghan women girls & #LGBTQI+ ppl🏳️🌈 We look forward to perpetrators being held accountable & hope this news contributes to preventing recurrence tinyurl.com/yc7pszwwtinyurl.comStatement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in AfghanistanToday, I can announce that my Office has filed two applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Afghanistan. These filings ha... 010
Protection Approaches @ibvprev.bsky.social · 28/01/2025On Holocaust Memorial Day, as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we honour the Jewish, Roma, Sinti, LGBTQI+, Black & disabled people persecuted by the Nazis. We also recommit to building a future free from identity-based violence, in the UK & around the world 🕊️ 110