{"id":9128,"date":"2022-05-23T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/international-interactive-event-active-youth-against-hate-speech-coming-to-kaunas\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T09:44:43","slug":"international-interactive-event-active-youth-against-hate-speech-coming-to-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/international-interactive-event-active-youth-against-hate-speech-coming-to-kaunas\/","title":{"rendered":"International interactive event \u201cActive Youth Against Hate Speech\u201d coming to Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"

International interactive youth event \u201cActive Youth against Hate Speech\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

30 May, Kaunas, Lithuania<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Human Rights Monitoring Institute in cooperation with partners across Europe is inviting active young people, aged 16-30, to participate in an interactive international event. A workshop \u201cActive Youth against Hate Speech\u201d will be held on 30 May, 2022<\/strong> in Kaunas, at the social centre \u201eEmma<\/strong>\u201c<\/a><\/strong> (A. Mickevi\u010diaus g. 35, 2nd floor, Kaunas, Lithuania).<\/p>\n

Hate speech poses a growing threat to our democracies and European solidarity. It violates human rights and corrodes the culture of debate. Hate speech is often used as a tool to target vulnerable groups, especially minorities. It causes alienation and exclusion of certain groups and individuals. And, therefore, weakens democracy and strengthens positions of right-wing radicals and populists.<\/p>\n

We invite young people to have a say about it and together find ways how to tackle the phenomena. The workshop will train and inform participants about hate speech, preparing them to play an active role in addressing this challenging problem at the national and European levels. The workshop will be interactive and participants will have a possibility to develop skills and attitudes to counter hate speech.<\/p>\n

Participants of the event will be treated to lunch, and one of the participants of the local events in Lithuania will get the chance to travel to the final conference of the \u201cActive Youth against Hate Speech\u201d project, which will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 25 June. For participants from outside of Lithuania, travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed.<\/p>\n

The event is facilitated by Goda Jureviciute <\/em>and Viktorija Kolbe\u0161nikova<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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