HATE SPEECH & PREVENTİON

Time for ACTion is now!

WHAT İS HATE SPEECH?

In recent time, society is becoming more and more hostile towards specific communities because of the prejudices created around them As a result, hate speech – meaning offensive discourses and violent nonverbal actions targeting vulnerable and minority groups, based on inherent characteristics (e.g. race, religion or gender) – occurs and it is dramatically increasing. Hate speech emerges in various forms and sometimes is not even expressed, thus young people do not see it or realize it. In order to change this trend and enhance social cohesion, there is a necessity for a collective action to raise awareness on this pressuring issue – as the project aims to achieve

HOW CAN İT BE COMBATED AND PREVENTED?

Throughout interactive workshops on human rights and discrimination, participants proposed potential solutions to stop hate speech episodes based on their sharings and knowledge First of all, constructive dialogue on the roots and the consequences of hate speech by taking into account some of the most targeted groups (e.g. Roma community, refugees, LGBTQIA+ community) enabled exchanges of thoughtprovoking ideas directly from targeted people and actively listening to them to know how to halt unfortunate episodes Moreover, gaining indepth knowledge about the communities affected by these discourses, as well as in legislation on human rights both at national and international level, is needed in order to understand

How We Can Tackle Social Injustice

In relation to that, a urgent necessity to radically change the education system and introduce the topic of human rights and hate speech since elementary school