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.
During the school year of 2018-2019, around 200 students from 3 different schools in Bellaria Igea Marina and Rimini (Italy) took part to the workshops conducted by Centro Zaffiria for
Video, slam poetry and creative writing: many ways to find creative solutions against online hate speech. More than 350 students have been involved in Prato, Florence, Padua and Bologna by
During the school year of 2018-2019, 430 students from 17 schools gathered in digital workshops delivered by Karpos in different areas of Greece. The objective was to reflect about hate
By Angelo Boccato During the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) and Silence Hate’s Media Camp in London in April 2018, I was reflecting on how the social, media and political debate
Ahead of the European Parliamentary elections, immigration has become the biggest hot button issue—even more so than the economy and climate change. Across the continent, far right political parties are gathering
By Nicola Melloni (RUMI produzioni) How can we prevent online hate speech? The “We are all videomakers” project, realized by RUMI Produzioni, asked Italian students to focus on the online
