Written by Viera Striskova Let’s be clear from the start and repeat it once again: nothing justifies violence and death. Nothing! Controversial drawings can incite different emotions but should never be answered with killings. Laugh, love, sadness, anger, hatred are all unpredictable emotions. The aim of Charlie Hebdo’s journalists was to make their readers laugh. Indeed,… View

No Hate Parliamentary Alliance In follow-up to the Assembly Resolution 1967 (2014) on A strategy to prevent racism and intolerance in Europe, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination has proposed setting up the No Hate Parliamentary Alliance, an alliance of parliamentarians who commit to taking open, firm and pro-active stands against racism, hatred and intolerance… View

Following up on the activities organised on the occasion of the International Day Aganist Homophobia and Transphobia last May  you can read here two important reports.   The first is the Report on the seminar “Young People’s Responses to Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Speech,” organised by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe in collaboration with… View

Written by Alessandra Coppola I’m a Human Being, like all the others but not the same. I’m from a wonderful country, Italy, full of art and history, where little heroes, from north to south of our beautiful boot, are still fighting against a degrading human rights violation: MAFIA. Article 1. All human beings are born… View