It was an honor to “break the ice” with the panel “Global Assault on LGBTQ+ Rights” of Frontiers of Prevention with great coleagues Farida Hussein 🦄, Yarrow Brown and Dr. Frank Mugisha. Deeps insights on the drivers of anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence. Ready for the 2nd day!

What an honor to have spoken alongside such incredible activists Dr. Frank Mugisha Mauricio 🌈 & Yarrow Brown, on the intensifying global assault against #LGBTQI + rights today🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Feeling energised & inspired & v much look forward to tackle these shared challenges together💪🏽

Grateful to be amongst #atrocityprevention experts this week Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention🙏🏼

Our Co-exec Kate Ferguson is speaking alongside Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum she/hers & Alex Hinton on past & ongoing CIJ_ICJ cases, inc Gambia v Myanmar, Ukraine v Russia & South Africa v Israel ⚖️

And here we go! One of my favourite regular gatherings on atrocity prevention, Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention’s annual Frontiers of Prevention dialogue —and this year’s theme is the relationship between LGBTQ+ rights and mass atrocity prevention ✨

Look forward to discussing #genocide and intl law along with Kate Ferguson and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum she/hers at the 2024 Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention conference today.

🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🕊️ #LiveNow Our Queering Atrocity Prevention Coordinator, Farida Mostafa, joins Dr. Frank Mugisha Mauricio Coitiño & Yarrow Brown to discuss the global assault on LGBTQ+ rights at Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention, opening this year’s Frontiers of Prevention dialogue🌈🏳️‍⚧️🕊️

Looking forward to hearing our friend Enyseh Teimory of United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK)'s contributions during this important session on Tuesday 👇

When so much in the world breaks your heart, ten days in New York will fix you up. What privilege it is to help, alongside such wondrous colleagues, to push at the boundaries & expectations of human rights ⚖️🕊️🗽❤️🍸 #CAHtreatyNOW

Next stop, Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention 🚌

Our copy of ‘The Children’s Drawings’ now sits in Protection Approaches’ library as a potent reminder of the cost of failures to prevent & protect 🕊️

Thank you Waging Peace 🧡 for your tireless work 🧡

To learn more, or to donate to purchase a copy 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/62xwd4mh

Spoke w/ InfoMigrants about the migrants' experiences with the seasonal agricultural workers' visa scheme & how workers might be able to protect themselves better. The report highlights the recent research Southeast and East Asian Centre - SEEAC worked as a member of research group📰infomigrants.net/en/post/56248/…

Privileged to be at the Frontline Club for the launch of Waging Peace 🧡’s book “The Children’s Drawings” - a book of drawings and pictures by child survivors of mass atrocities in Sudan. 🧡 🕊️

Today we launch 'The Children's Drawings', an 80-page, full-colour, hardback book featuring devastating children's drawings of genocide & mass atrocities in #Sudan . Here is the flyer letting you know how you can get your copy & bear witness #keepeyesonsudan #thechildrensdrawings

Marking the 1st anniversary of the outbreak of violence in Sudan, tonight Waging Peace 🧡 launch a book of drawings accepted by the ICC, documenting the violence in Sudan through the eyes of children.

Online participation is still available - register below 📄

We join in commemorating the beginning on April 7 1994 of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda & recalling world’s the collective failure to protect💜

We must stand consistently against identity-based violence & all acts that seek to destroy & displace communities

#Kwibuka30

⚖️🇬🇧This powerful intervention from the UK’s legal community calling on Sunak to uphold state obligations to prevent genocide is clear:

“The UK cannot wait until the [ICJ] decides the case on the merits; it must act now in accordance with its obligation to prevent genocide”

🗓EVENT INVITATION 🗓

Book launch & panel discussion: war seen through children's eyes
Tues 9 Apr 18:30 BST (UK time)
Virtual registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
In-person at Frontline Club

Speakers:
Bashy
Mohanad Hashim
Rebecca Tinsley

#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

The UN Human Rights adopted a resolution today condemning the alleged “use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in #Gaza ”, and calling for an arms embargo on Israel.

Will it be implemented? Or will it have the same impact as the UN Security Council resolution…

💼 Exciting new role!

Would you like to work for On Your Side, based at Protection Approaches?

Apply via the link below if you'd like to work to support ESEA community members facing racism or hate 👇

This echoes recent discussions with CSOs in the region who have consistently felt - and raised the alarm on - the malign influence of Russia's divisive and destablising tactics for more than a decade 🚨

The trouble with “the Global South” - great essay by Comfort Ero on the “conceptually unwieldy” term and how it perpetuates narrow understanding & policy by western states, obscuring differences and missing opportunities.

🔗 foreignaffairs.com/world/trouble-…