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Through our cooperation with the EU-Russia Forum, UNITED encourages members of its network from Estonia, Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine with experience in media and countering fake news to submit their application for the 1st Vilnius Young Leaders Meeting (VYLM).

A long time partner of UNITED and friend in combating hate, xenophobia and intolerance, the FARE Network is encouraging civil society to apply for small and medium size grants to participate in its campaign, the Football People weeks, running between 5 and 19 October 2017.

The Frontex Management Board has launched a public call for applications for civil society organisations to join the Frontex Consultative Forum for Fundamental Rights.

The UNITED Secretariat deems the attack in Charlottesville as an act of terrorism and stands by the counter-protesters, reiterating that responding to societal tensions in a hateful and violent manner is not an acceptable form of expression of opinion.

The Council of Europe has published a call for participants for a seminar that will explore how youth participation in Internet Governance can be ensured in a meaningful and inclusive manner and will formulate recommendations for future action to be taken by the Youth Department and the Council of Europe to support youth participation.

Evdokia Romanova, a long-time supporter and activist of UNITED, has been charged in Russia with sharing posts on her Facebook profile whose content was related to the topic of the human rights of LGBT people in Russia. The UNITED Secretariat is concerned about the noticeable shrinking space of human rights activists and calls on its supporters to join the action of Avers in support of Evdokia.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has just launched a call for tender in order to identify contractors for the provision of research and analysis services on fundamental rights issues.

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.