"LOG IN for Human Rights" is a 12 day Seminar for multipliers that aims to empower youth leaders, volunteer and activists to fight exclusion and discrimination in the cyber space and promote active youth participation and human rights using IT&Social Media. The project contributes to raising awareness about hate speech and discrimination online and understanding its consequences for democracy and human rights. It will create a platform for sustainable social networking and exchange of expertise among activists and grassroots initiatives in promotion of diversity, dialogue and participation. The seminar enabled participants to recognize and combat human rights violations in online environments and be active as multipliers and peer educators in their local communities. It's strengthening competences to advocate for human rights and intervene against hate speech, racism and discrimination in their online expression.
The project objectives are:
- Strengthen the cooperation in the European youth field against human rights violation in online
environment, particularly towards hate speech and discrimination online
- Equip youth workers, leaders and activists with tools and competences to act as multipliers and
peer educators on human rights and democracy values in the online environment.
- Developing an understanding of hate speech on-line and how in particularly affects young people
- To offer space to young people to express their creativity and to promote antidiscrimination, social
inclusion and tolerance
- Provide online platform to share good practices and create strategies to combat discrimination and
racism on European level
The project objectives are:
- Strengthen the cooperation in the European youth field against human rights violation in online
environment, particularly towards hate speech and discrimination online
- Equip youth workers, leaders and activists with tools and competences to act as multipliers and
peer educators on human rights and democracy values in the online environment.
- Developing an understanding of hate speech on-line and how in particularly affects young people
- To offer space to young people to express their creativity and to promote antidiscrimination, social
inclusion and tolerance
- Provide online platform to share good practices and create strategies to combat discrimination and
racism on European level
ORGANIZER:
Center for Intercultural Dialogue is a non-governmental, non-profit youth voluntary organization. The mission of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue is to promote and support intercultural understanding and cooperation, peace and solidarity through active youth participation in the society, and especially through volunteer involvement on local and international level. |
The seminar was funded by the European Youth Foundation
The European Youth Foundation (EYF)is a fund established in 1972 by the Council of Europe to provide financial support for European youth activities. Its purpose is to encourage co-operation among young people in Europe by providing financial support to such European youth activities which serve the promotion of peace, understanding and co-operation in a spirit of respect for the Council of Europe's fundamental values such as human rights, democracy, tolerance and solidarity |