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Holding a meeting on human rights is not a terrorist conspiracy 10 July 2017 On 5 July 2017, ten participants in a human rights training meeting were detained at Büyükada, one of the Princes’ Islands near İstanbul, Turkey. The group consisted of eight representatives of Turkish civil society organisations working on human rights and two… Read more »

The Joint Day of Action against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Hatred and Discrimination was marked on 30 May 2017 with a series of international events in Brussels and concluded with an interfaith dinner at the European Jewish Community Centre in the Belgian capital.

Council of Europe has adopted an Action Plan on Protecting Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe for 2017-2019.

Around 80 PICUM members came together in Brussels from 12 to 13 May to strategise and mobilise and agree on actions for PICUM to advance the rights of undocumented migrants.

The ‘Training course on Counter and Alternative Narratives to hate Speech’ develops the competences of youth workers, youth leaders and educators to use the manual We CAN! with young people.
Date and venue: 16-20 October 2017 at Utoya island, Norway.

Balint Josa, Programme Coordinator of UNITED for Intercultural Action, represented the network at the fifth coordination meeting of the No Hate Speech Movement in June 2017 in Bucharest, Romania. “We are delighted to see that the activities of UNITED are reflected in the work of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe” said Mr Josa.

UNITED invites your organisation to nominate a delegate for the UNITED Conference near Berlin, Germany: Make Every Voice Heard! The Power Of Victim Perspectives In Fighting Hate Crime
19-24 November 2017, near Berlin, Germany

The Citizenship Education Working Group of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is pleased to announce a call for participants for a workshop focusing on Citizenship Education to be held in Budapest, on September 18-20th, 2017.

It has been 10 years now since CoE have launched COMPASITO, the manual on Human Rights Education for Children.

Fatal Policies of Fortress Europe: >33.305 documented refugee deaths since 1993. TIME FOR CHANGE!
To mark International Refugee Day, UNITED is publishing an updated edition of its List of Deaths and of its interactive map.