PA'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

Catch 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...

Today, 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...

Join 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

We 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:

One 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.

PA'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.

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-...

Flag It - Active Bystander Training in partnership with the FA

On 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...

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🚨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

London Resilience Equalities Partnership

Equalities at the heart of London's emergency planning and response

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🚨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 🧵

📢 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 💭

One year on - reflecting on the UK's racist riots

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.

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💡 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."

The Gaza crisis demands a humanitarian reckoning | Humanitarian Practice Network

We cannot afford to give up on Gaza – nor on the principles and responsibilities that define humanitarianism itself.

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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. 🧵

📺 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. 🧵

🚨 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.

🚨 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.

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 👇

PA publishes policy paper on national security and rights

There 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...

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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🗣️⬇️

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Proud to share that @ldnresilience.bsky.social has commissioned @ibvprev.bsky.social to create a new Equalities Partnership within the London Resilience Forum If your group or organisation works primarily with/for marginalised communities, you can get involved today! 🧵⬇️

✨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! 🧵⬇️

🗓️ 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...

🤝 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.

PA launches new hate crime support project with Brent Council

Protection 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...

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Our 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.

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This week, the British government is in the High Court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel. HRW's Yasmine Ahmed is at the High Court in London ⤵️

🚨 #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...

Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Palestinian 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...

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📺 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.

What'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...

Revealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UK

Social media incitement following last summer’s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exiles

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💼 @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. 📣

📣 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 👇

This 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.