The Euro-Arab Foundation starts the training package in the universities of Malaga and Granada, which, within the framework of the European project STAND-UP – ‘Fighting hate in the EU’, will be developed in the field of communication and journalism

On 4 May, the Project Steering Committee Meeting of STAND-UP was hosted at the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) headquarters in Athens, the partners who led this meeting. This is the third meeting held by the consortium, the first was the kick-off meeting in Granada, Spain, in May 2022, and the second steering committee in Trento, Italy, in October 2022. In this meeting, a synthesis of the growth of STAND-UP from its beginning until now was made, where the progress of each work package of the project was presented, as well as the current point where it is, and the...

A few words on the education model Today the European Union has evolved significantly at social and legislative level concerning the confrontation and elimination of hate crime & hate speech phenomena. However, hate speech & crime against people and groups still exist due to their distinguishing characteristics. STAND-UP’s overall aim is to establish a multi-agency cooperation model between public authorities & CSOs, so as to tackle hate crime and hate speech phenomena, with the contribution of new technological instruments. Training’s target group is public authorities (judiciaries, ministries, prosecutors), Law Enforcement Agents (LEAs), like policy officers, and members of Civil Society...

The STAND-UP project has launch a Hate Crime & Hate Speech Victims Support Handbook. This manual aims to offer support to public authorities (in particular LEAs and judicial bodies) throughout the RIPP cycle, offering guidelines and best practices to strengthen victim support and protection in the process. It also promotes cooperation with CSOs to ensure the prioritisation of victim protection (as per Victims’ Rights Directive) & encourage “sensitive investigation and prosecution”. The main topics covered on this Handbook are:1. A summary with terminology and a synthesis of the STAND-UP project plans and the technology tool OSINT used 2. Context on...

The STAND-UP project held 4 webinars in february: 3 national webinars developed by the partners Euroarab Foundation (FUNDEA) from Spain, Fondazione Agenfor Internacional from Italy, and the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) along with the Greek National Comission for Human Rights from Greece, and a final pan-european webinar with the participation of the STAND-UP partners and all the case studies discussed. All the webinars explained the use of technological tools as OSINT software and Falkor platform to monitor online hate speech and hate crimes. As well, each regional webinar focused on a particular case to investigate. The Spanish webinar by...

The STAND-UP Webinars foreseen for this month aim to promote and present the use of technologically advanced tools to combat and prevent hate speech, starting from the analysis of online hate speech, with a view to cooperation between public sector-Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) mainly-and the private sector (associations, NGOs and research centres). Discriminatory behaviours, intolerance and hate are widespread in Europe towards individuals or entire communities based on biased motivations – race and ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or other peculiar features identifying those individuals. According to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Amnesty International and the...

In the framework of the “Stand-Up: fighting against hate crimes in the EU” project, 4 webinars will be presented: 3 national webinars held in Greek, Italian and Spanish, developed by the partners Euroarab Foundation (FUNDEA) from Spain; Fondazione Agenfor Internacional from Italy, and the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) along with the Greek National Comission for Human Rights from Greece. In addition, a fourth webinar will also be held at an pan-european level. The topic of these seminars are about the use of technological tools to monitor hate speech, identifying hateful feelings, areas of intervention, groups at risk and hate...

A significant number of contributions made by European experts from the legal and police fields, civil society organisations, NGOs, policy makers and academia, were discussed in Brussels at the seminar “Standing Up Against Hate Crime”.

This week, 28-29 September, the seminar organised by the European project STAND UP - Fighting Hate in the EU takes place in the European Parliament (Brussels). The aim of this event is to find a common European definition of "hate crime" and to analyse measures that can counter this hate speech.

The in-presence Project Kick-Off Meeting finally took place on the 10th and 11th of May, hosted by the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies in Granada, Spain. The meeting was jointly carried out with the BigOsint Project that objective is to counteract Trafficking in Human Beings through the analysis of Big Data and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Partners exchanged thoughts, ideas for what concerns the technical aspects, communication strategies and the future steps of the project. A training was given on the use of OSINT tools and the Falkor platform. Agenfor introduced its Virtual Reality training methodology that both projects will...