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A UNITED network conference will take place near Lake Ohrid, FYR Macedonia, from 26-31 October 2016. Nominations are now open for the conference – the deadline to apply is 15 August.

Let’s integrate! is a new Berlin-based project that provides an online platform that allows refugees and locals to meet and get to know one another. UNITED caught up with co-founder Lasse Landt to talk about how the project got started, how it works and what the team’s plans are for the future.

In the build-up to the European Championships, Kick It Out launches its #KlickItOut campaign to target online discrimination

Following a decisive election win for Poland’s nationalist parties, Dominik Sipiński considers what the country’s move to the right means for its people and for Europe.

The Council of Europe’s No Hate Speech Movement campaign has announced an Action Day to mark International Refugee Day on 20 June.

UNITED’s monthly E-news for May, with our view on the Austrian presidential elections, news from UNITED, news from the network, highlights from the UNITED website, and a look to the future.

A report newly published by the European Commission shows over 15,000 cases of human trafficking reported from 2013-14. The actual number is likely substantially larger.

UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, has launched a global campaign to raise funds from the private sector in order to fill a massive gap in funds needed to provide shelter for millions of refugees.

Throughout April and May, ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association has been running a series of workshops with prison workers and volunteers working with inmates in Poland, Hungary and Greece to promote antidiscrimination values in prisons.

A new briefing by Global Justice Now looks at the framing of the narrative around the influx of migrants and refugees in Europe, sets out the underlying causes for this mobility, and demands states to protect and expand the right to freedom of movement.