The four – three men and a 24-year-old woman identified as Denise Vanessa G. – were arrested in May 2015, two days before they planned to strike at the migrant shelter in the eastern state of Saxony. Known as the … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ana Laura
500 racist and xenophobic incidents during 2016 in Spain
Spain seems very far from the wave of xenophobia and racism, which according to all experts and some election results, has exploded across Europe in the last year. The citizenship of this country does not perhaps have that same feeling, the … Continue reading
Action Day countering Sexist Hate Speech
In the link below you will find all the actions that are proposed for this coming March 8, International Women’s Day. The No Hate Speech Movement aims to combat all forms of sexist hate speech circulating on the Internet. Take an … Continue reading
No fear…
Alena Krempaska is a human rights activist. She works as a journalist in the Slovak Insitute for Human Rights. Center Europe has become the epicenter of a storm of populism and intolerance. It seems that hate speech against Muslims has strong … Continue reading
Action Day for a Better Internet
The 7 February Action Day joins the global Safer Internet day call to ‘Be the change: Unite for a Better Internet!’ Making internet a safe and engaging space for children and youth has been a driving force behind the work … Continue reading
Swedish Government Announces New Measures to Tackle Hate Crimes
Swedish government is introducing new measures to fight racism and hate crimes, which include large scale research on the nature of these crimes, improving safety at schools as well as a new international conference on the Holocaust, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice … Continue reading
Marine Le Pen Echoes Trump’s Bleak Populism and Brexit in French Campaign Kickoff
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivered a grim populist kickoff to her burgeoning presidential campaign on Sunday, warning thousands of her flag-waving supporters of “two totalitarianisms,” globalization and Islamism, that want to “subjugate France.” Ms. Le Pen’s dark … Continue reading
Beware hate speech, says Auschwitz Holocaust survivor
At the age of 13, Susan Pollack – now a retired grandmother living in north London – was taken from her home in rural Hungary, loaded into a cattle truck and transported by rail through German-occupied Poland. She and her … Continue reading
Austrian man imprisoned for selling pro-Nazi songs on notorious internet forum
An Austrian man who sold pro-Nazi songs online with titles like “Adolf Hitler Lives” and “Goebbels for All” has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. He was prosecuted under Austria’s anti-Nazi laws. A court in the Upper Austrian city … Continue reading
One LGBT person is killed every 25 hours in Brazil
One person is murdered every 25 hours in Brazil according to a shocking annual survey conducted by the Gay Group of Bahia (GGB). The 2016 survey found that 343 members of the LGBT community were killed in homophobic, biphobic or … Continue reading