Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” William Shakespeare
“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.” Zygmunt Bauman
“Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.” Germany Kent
Online hate speech is a worrying and complex phenomenon, which has deep cultural and social roots and brings new questions and challenges to the issue of freedom of expression on the web.
Only a collective commitment at the cultural and educational level can be the basis to counter it, promoting at the same time freedom and participation.
Silence hate aims at combating and preventing online hate speech against migrants and refugees by developing new and creative counter-narratives. An European media camp, training courses, workshops and media productions will involve journalists, activists, teachers and young people in Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Poland and United Kingdom. Moreover an online campaign covering the entire life of the project and national events will communicate and disseminate the activities and the results to the public.
For 3 days during the Christmas Holidays a group of teenagers gathered in the Media Lab of Ilioupoli Library in Athens with the aim to approach the topic of hate
After Florence and London, the eight partners of the Silence Hate project met in Athens for the third transnational meeting on 10 th December 2018. The aim has been to
Italy- Greece : a conversation between two countries. Education as a response to racism” is the title of the event organised by Karpos on Sunday 9/12 at K44. The objective was
Under the Silence Hate program, on the 24th and 25th of November Karpos organized a training workshop for teachers and educators. The workshop’s main aim was to provide a theoretical
The workbook on media education and hate speech is now available for free download here. This training module was produced by Cospe and Zaffiria as one of the main outputs
Do you think you can talk to a wall? Have you ever raised walls in your life? What is the highest wall you had to overcome in your entire
