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Call for participants - No Hate Speech Week 2024
The No Hate Speech Week, 17-20 June 2024, is organised around the International Day for Countering Hate Speech. In 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which recognises the need to counter discrimination, xenophobia and hate speech and calls on all relevant actors, including states,...
Hate speech in times of crisis: new study published by the Council of Europe anti-discrimination, diversity and inclusion committee
In order to be prepared to tackle hate speech in times of crisis, legal frameworks should be amended, law enforcement measures reinforced, collaboration between media, national human rights institutions and equality bodies strengthened, and support to those targeted by hate speech prioritised....
Council of Europe work on combating hate speech and crime presented at 11th EU High Level meeting on Combating Hate Speech and Hate crime
At the 11th meeting of the EU High Level Group, the Council of Europe Director of Anti-Discrimination, Jeroen Schokkenbroek, recalled the commitments of the 46 Council of Europe member states expressed in the Reykjavik Declaration of May 2023, when they committed to ensuring equality, combating...
National seminar on combating hate speech and award ceremony for trusted flaggers training participants in Spain
International responses on hate speech were among the discussions held during the national seminar on combating hate speech 2023 in Spain. The Council of Europe Recommendation on combating hate speech, and the organisations work, in particular to strengthen non-legal measures such as education,...
Two new manuals on addressing hate speech available in Republic of Moldova and Armenia
In the framework of the EU-CoE joint Partnership for Good Governance (PGG) programme, the Council of Europe developed two new manuals on addressing hate speech. Guide on combating hate speech in the media in the Republic of Moldova The Guide provides advice, guidance, and recommendations to the...
Addressing online hate speech as consequence of the war among topics discussed at EuroDIG
The Council of Europe set the stage for the session related to the Impact of the war - Protecting citizens in times of crisis at EuroDIG 2023. Citing the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the annual report of European Committee against Racisms and Intolerance (ECRI), the...
Council of Europe at RightsCon 2023 in Costa Rica
From 5-8 June 2023, the Council of Europe participated in the 12th edition of RightsCon 2023, a global summit on human rights in the digital age. More information about Council of Europe at RightsCon2023 can be found on our website. On 6th June, the Council of Europe hosted in a hybrid format a...
Youth discuss Digital Literacy and Hate Speech in the Age of AI
The study session ‘Developing Digital Literacy and Responding to Hate Speech in the Age of AI’ was co-organised within the Youth for Democracy programme in cooperation with the No Hate Speech Network (NHSN) and held at the European Youth Centre Budapest from 12 to 16 June 2023. It brought...
Marking the international day to counter hate speech with equality body representatives
The International Day for Countering Hate Speech was marked in Albania with a regional seminar, gathering representatives from equality bodies from the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe. This event aimed to address ways of dealing with individual redress of cases of discrimination, hate speech...
Comprehensive approach required to ‘Protecting Democracy from Online Disinformation & Hate’
The Council of Europe’s Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech, served as a basis for a panel discussion during the Conference ‘Protecting Democracy from Online Disinformation & Hate’ held on 24 February 2023 in Berlin. The panellists reflecting on the way forward of content...
Tackling online xenophobia and racism and the first additional protocol to the Cybercrime Convention are more relevant than ever before
The 20th anniversary Conference on the First Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime was held on 30-31 January in Strasbourg, under the Icelandic Presidency of the Council of Europe. One of the key messages from the conference was that ‘a broad range of measures by multiple...
No Hate Parliamentary Alliance discusses measures to support those targeted by hate speech
1 December 2022. Steps national parliaments can take to ensure effective support measures for individuals and groups targeted by hate speech were discussed during the thematic session held today by the No Hate Parliamentary Alliance of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at the...
UN Internet Governance Forum explores how to implement Council of Europe Recommendation on Combating Hate Speech
Representative of national authorities, civil society organisations and Internet businesses discussed together how to implement the provisions included in Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech and the UN Plan of Action on Hate Speech. They met during the hybrid...
Recommendation on combating hate speech presents at INACH 20th Anniversary Conference
At the INACH 20th Anniversary Conference, Tarlach McGonagle, member of the former Committee of Experts on combating hate speech and the CoE secretariat presented the recently adopted Committee of Ministers Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)16 on Combating Hate Speech. The introduction emphasised the...
The Council of Europe adopted the Recommendation on combating hate speech
In the Recommendation adopted during its annual session held in Turin on 20 May, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers called on governments to develop comprehensive strategies to prevent and fight hate speech, including the adoption of an effective legal framework and implementing...
The Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech held its final meeting
The Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech held its fourth and final meeting in a hybrid format on 6-7 and 20-21 October. ADI/MSI-DIS members and other participants held constructive discussions on the draft Recommendation on Combating Hate Speech and its draft Explanatory Memorandum. They...
Public consultation on CM Recommendation on Combating Hate Speech
The public consultation on the draft text of the Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Combating Hate Speech is open from 23 June to 8 August 2021. This recommendation will provide non-binding guidance for member states and other key stakeholders on a comprehensive approach to addressing hate...
The Committee of Experts on combatting hate speech (ADI/MSI-DIS) held its third meeting via videoconference
On 12-13 April 2021, The Expert Committee on Combating Hate Speech held its third meeting online to continue the work on the draft recommendation on a comprehensive approach to combating hate speech, including in the context of an online environment, within a human rights framework. The meeting...
Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech holds its second online meeting
On 15-16 December 2020 the Committee of Experts on Combating Hate Speech (ADI/MSI-DIS) exchanged views on the discussion paper prepared by Rapporteurs presenting elements for the drafting of a Recommendation on a comprehensive approach to combating hate speech within a human rights framework,...
Committee of Experts on Combating hate Speech starts its work
During its first two-day meeting (29-30 Sept. 2020) the expert committee ADI/MSI-DIS determined the scope and structure of a future Committee of Ministers’ recommendation on a comprehensive approach to combating hate speech within a human rights framework. The newly elected chair Alexander...
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