Supporting civil society organisations and other stakeholders to prevent and combat hate speech through the use of counter and alternative narratives is part of the Council of Europe approach since the Council of Europe’s No Hate Speech Movement Youth campaign (2012-2018) first worked on this issue. The Council of Europe’s work on combating hate speech covers monitoring, standard setting, and cooperation with key stakeholders in the member States to design tools and support actions using counter narrative, education and awareness raising initiatives. This project builds specifically on the toolkits and trainings designed to analyse hate speech, develop human rights-based narratives and communication strategies, developed within the framework of the EU-CoE co-funded project We CAN 4 Human Rights Speech. The project objectives are two-fold: to improve multilevel and multistakeholder cooperation on combating hate speech online, and to strengthen responses to online hate speech through non-judiciary means, using counter and alternative narratives and education, and by referring to existing Council of Europe and European Union standards and policies.

More information about the project on the dedicated project webpage.