Inclusion and anti-discrimination programmes

The Council of Europe's Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Programmes Division carries out activities to ensure genuine equality and full access to rights and opportunities for all members of society.

The Division is composed of four Units, offering concrete and tested solutions to governmental and non-governmental partners in member States to strenghten inclusion and address discrimination and inequality that undermine the enjoyment of human rights and democracy by everyone:

Back A practical guide for assessing and processing the hate speech cases, will strengthen the capacity of the Audio-visual Council of Moldova to monitor and combat hate speech in the audio-visual environment

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A new methodological guide “Combating hate speech in the media” has been produced in the framework of the project “Strengthening access to justice for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in the Eastern Partnership”, funded by the European Union and co-funded and implemented by the Council of Europe, with the aim of supporting the Audio-visual Council in monitoring and combating more efficiently the hate speech cases in the audio-visual environment.

The guide was elaborated on the bases of interviews with representatives of institutions involved in collecting and monitoring the cases of hate speech in mass-media and will serve as an educational and methodologic tool for the above-mentioned institution, containing recommendations and mechanisms for fighting hate speech.

The importance, but also the necessity of this guide is additionally provided by the increasing number of cases of hate speech and discrimination in the public space and the mass media of the Republic of Moldova. Specifically, in the Republic of Moldova, the role of media regulators appears as crucial in ensuring monitoring of hate speech and appropriately sanctioning. This led to the development of this guide, on the basis of monitoring work of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance and its general policy recommendations (notable GPR No. 15 on combating hate speech), as well as the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, and also the best practices of other countries in the given field.

The guide is expected to be officially approved by the Audio-visual Council of the Republic of Moldova and used as a practical tool in approaching hate speech in the media environment.

 Download the guide in English

 Download the guide in Romanian

The guide was produced as part of the regional project “Strengthening access to justice for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in the Eastern Partnership”, funded by the European Union and co-funded and implemented by the Council of Europe in the framework of the Partnership for Good Governance Programme (PGG II).

Republic of Moldova 10/06/2021
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 The four Units' activities are directly based on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the recommendations and findings of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (AC/FCNM), and the Committee of Experts of the European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages, as well as relevant Committee of Ministers Recommendations.

 

 The approach of the Division is to establish a direct link between standards, the monitoring processes, the intergovernmental work, such as the Steering Committee on Anti-Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion (CDADI) and the implementation of co-operation activities. This allows to identify weaknesses in the implementation of standards where technical cooperation activities can be helpful.

 

 The Division works closely with the existing networks of equality bodies and national human rights structures (ombudsmen and national human rights institutions); other Council of Europe monitoring bodies (such as European Committee of Social Rights, the Group of experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO) and their secretariats; European networks of NGO’s and national civil society platforms; and international actors, such as the EU Commission and its Agencies (including the Fundamental Rights Agency), the UN agencies (such as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme) and the OSCE/ODIHR.

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