Policy Field: Safety
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Public Security Campaign “Safe and Visible Together” – Promoting the Safety of Queer People
As part of the “Mannheim’s Allies” project, the public campaign “Safe and Visible Together” raised awareness of violence against queer people and promoted safety, visibility, and solidarity. Posters displayed on trams, in public spaces, and across social media featured queer Mannheim residents alongside city and police leaders like the lord mayor and the police president,…
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Berlin Strategy for Queer Safety and Against Queerphobia
In Berlin´s government policy guidelines the Senate of Berlin has undertaken to ‘develop a “state strategy for queer safety and against queerphobia” and to establish a Round Table on ‘Protection against queer-hostile hate crime’. The Berlin state strategy was developed under the leadership of the „State Office for Equal Treatment – Against Discrimination“ (LADS) as…
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Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence and Discrimination in Berlin
Berlin is the only federal state in Germany so far that runs a “Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence in Berlin” as an instrument to combat hate violence against lesbian, gay, bi+, trans*, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ+). The “Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence in Berlin” has been published every two years since 2020. Besides analysing…
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Report IT Always (RITA) – targeted campaign for reporting lgbtqi+ related hate crime
Report IT Always (RITA) started as a campaign to promote reporting of LGBT+ related hate crimes during Pride 2024. RITA was founded by a commercial talent agency for LGBTQI+ performers, and is supported by the municipality of Amsterdam. The use of targeted campaigns and the possibility to report to an organisation from within the community…
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LGBTIQ* safety networks for Munich
As an outcome of the new safety strategy a network was set up for staff of community centres and services who come together several times per year for updates on the security situation and to discuss safety. Existing safety measures were evaluated with the support of the local police, funding was provided and new safety…
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Queer Safety – a series of workshops and lectures
From May 2025 until november 2025 LGBTIQ* and allies from Brunswick are invited to visit workshops to work on building safer spaces for LGBTIQ* in the city. Our goal is to give those affected a voice, raise awareness among allies and develop joint strategies to actively combat hate and discrimination. Each event focuses on a…
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Community reporting of LGBTQI+-hate crimes, in collaboration with local CSO
equal‧brussels runs a pilot project in collaboration with RainbowHouse and safe‧brussels, based on the results of the 2019 Crime Survey as well as the FRA Surveys. The Crime Survey revealed a variety of reasons why people never file complaints about hate speech, hate crimes and discrimination with the police. The stories of street harassment and…
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Three year convention between the City and the local LGBTIQ+ association Cigale
Considering the international political situation and the increase of hate speech and hate crime against the LGBTIQ+ community – also in Luxembourg- and hence the increase of demand that our partner Cigale is facing on the field, the City of Luxembourg has decided to make a three-year convention with them, financing two new posts to help…
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Violence against queer people is offside – campaign during Euro 2025
The «Bern schaut hin» campaign against sexism and queerphobia was present at the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in Bern. Football topics were used creatively to reach out to as many people as possible and encourage moral courage in everyday life. The campaign stressed that violence against queer people – like offside in football – has…
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Bystander Training
The City of Genk organizes bystander training, aimed at citizens, professionals/middlemen and its own city employees. With this, the city wants to create a city-wide movement aimed against unacceptable behavior. A collaboration with the local school campus and youth welfare work was started in 2024. The content of these trainings was adapted to young people,…