The Council of Europe is organising a series of online educational activities “Combating hate speech through human rights education” which will take place from February to May 2021, online, for beneficiaries in Armenia.

This includes a five-day online training course for teachers of social science and youth workers of human rights NGOs from Armenia, from 8 to 12 February 2021. The aim of this training course is to equip the participants coming from formal and non-formal education fields with tools and methodologies that will help them recognize hate speech and address it through human rights education and later on pass the gained knowledge to young people they work with. 

Have a look here to discover what participants in this training course did as awareness raising follow up activities.

As a follow up to this training course, the Council of Europe will organise 8 online awareness raising meetings for the same target groups and other interested professionals on different aspects related to combating hate speech and the victim support for specific groups. The awareness raising meetings will feature local and international experts on these topics.

The activities are run in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and with the No Hate Speech Movement coordination committee of Armenia.

The online awareness rising meetings during the spring 2021 are going to cover actual and important themes. There will be invited experts for each meeting to share international and national context, similarity of the same issue.

The awareness raising sessions are dedicated to the following themes:

• 1 March 2021, Hate speech and discrimination
• 8 March 2021, Women's Rights Day: discrimination and hatred targeting women
• 21 March 2021, Hate speech and racial discrimination
• 14 April 2021, Hate speech on the grounds of religion and beliefs
• 28 April 2021, Hate speech targeting people with fewer opportunities and disabled people
• 1 May 2021, Combating hate speech using counter and alternative narratives
• 10 May 2021, Actions to combat hate speech through educational activities
• 15 May 2021, Closing event with keynote speakers.

For more information, check the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CombatingHateSpeech

 Read the activity report 

This activity is implemented in the framework of the regional project “Strengthening access to justice through non-judicial redress mechanisms for victims of discrimination, hate crime and hate speech in Eastern Partnership countries”, financed by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance phase II.