We CAN! Taking action against hate speech through counter and alternative narratives – a guide developed by Council of Europe
Council of Europe, within No Hate Speech Youth Campaign, developed the manual entitled – We CAN! Taking action against hate speech through counter and alternative narratives! This manual presents communicative and educational approaches and tools for youth and other human rights activists to develop their own counter and alternative narratives to hate speech and it […]
United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech 2019
The United Nations Strategy defines hate speech as: “any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour, that attacks or uses pejorative or discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of who they are, in other words, based on their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, colour, descent, gender or other […]
EU Code of Conduct against online hate speech: latest evaluation shows slowdown in progress
The European Commission released the results of its seventh evaluation of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online. This year’s results unfortunately show a decrease in companies’ notice-and-action results: the number of notifications reviewed by the companies within 24 hours dropped as compared to the last two monitoring exercises, from 90.4% in 2020, […]
AMeLiE Multiplier Event in Germany with visitors from Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
This Tuesday, German project partner Stiftung Digitale Chancen (SDC) had the honor to welcome a group of 15 people from Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, all pedagogical professionals on the mission of preventing and fighting cybercrime, hatred and sexism against women. The meeting was part of a study trip organized by NGO Global Project Partners (GPP) […]
The Romanian government started the implementation of the Strategy to combat anti-Semitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech at national level
In March 2022, Romanian government officially started the implementation of the National Strategy for the prevention and combating of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech, related to the period 2021-2023. The head of the Prime Minister’s Office stated that the Executive is fully engaged in the fight to combat anti-Semitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech, […]
The fine line between freedom of speech and hate speech: Twitter in the “Musk era”
As we all know, Twitter, one of the most influential social media platform, is now owned by billionaire Elon Musk. The reason behind this acquisition is easy to understand, using Musk’s words: “the bird is freed”[1]. Unfortunately, too often freedom of speech and hate speech are connected and, as a study from the Montclair State […]
