NOH8 Campaign The NOH8 Campaign (NOH8 meaning "No Hate") is a charitable organization whose mission is to promote LGBT marriage, gender and human equality through education, advocacy, social media, and visual protest. [1]
NOH8 Campaign
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The No Hate Speech Movement is a youth campaign led by the Council of Europe Youth Department seeking to mobilise young people to combat hate speech and promote human rights online. Launched in 2013, it was rolled out at the national and local levels through national campaigns in 45 countries. The movement will remain active beyond 2017 through the work of various national campaigns, online activists and partners.
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What will you find in this site?
This website provides information about the campaign and the resources developed to prevent, counter and produce alternative narratives to hate speech. Hate speech remains an issue of major concern for human rights in Europe; this website also provides information about the other work of the Council of Europe alongside the youth campaign and, we hope, inspiration for everyone concerned with upholding human rights online.
Thanks to the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe is the first and only international intergovernmental organisation to have adopted an official definition of hate speech. The organisation’s political bodies, the Parliamentary Assembly, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, and the Committee of Ministers have adopted charters and recommendations setting human rights standards and providing guidelines to the member states to help them deal with hate speech and support victims.
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The European Court of Human Rights monitors the application of the European Convention on Human Rights and its rulings make it possible to understand issues pertaining to hate speech. The European Commission again Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) monitors problems of racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination in the member states. Based on its findings, ECRI published General Policy Recommendation No.15 on combating hate speech providing guidelines to the member states on how to counter this problem.
The Anti-Discrimination Department is responsible for the Council of Europe’s work on policy, monitoring, and capacity building for tackling discrimination and hate speech, and for strengthening inclusive societies.
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The No Hate Speech Movement youth campaign, which was coordinated at European level by the Youth Department between 2013 -2017, shows how working with the member states, civil society organisations and human rights bodies can successfully mobilise citizens to combat hate speech and promote human rights online.
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The Council of Europe also addresses the issues of hate speech and discrimination in the areas of education, sport, Roma rights, gender equality, sexual orientation and gender identity, the media and internet governance.