Press release on the European Action Week Against Racism, a Europe-wide campaign coordinated by UNITED with the message: “Strength In Diversity!”
Press Release: European Action Week Against Racism – “Strength in Diversity”
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UNITED represented at Music Freedom Day, Budapest
UNITED was represented at the Music Freedom Day 2016 event at the Bakelit Multi Art Centre in Budapest. UNITED’s Balint Josa gave a speech to launch an exhibition of photos donated by the Council of Europe.
“Deepening the discussion is the only way out of radicalisation.” Interview with EUROCLIO’s Jonathan Even-Zohar
Ahead of the upcoming UNITED conference in Torino, UNITED caught up with EUROCLIO director Jonathan Even-Zohar to ask his opinion on the refugee crisis, and the role of historians and history teachers in challenging the prevalent narrative on migration.
Greece, Aegean Sea: Notes from a refugee camp on the threshold of Europe
Marco Notarbartolo di Sciara reports on the situation faced by refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Leros in the Aegean Sea. Photos by Michael Sarnitz.
UNITED Conference 2016 in Italy
Nominations for the next UNITED conference are now open! Entitled “Moving Stories: Narratives of Migration Crossing Europe”, the conference will take place from 22-27 April 2016 at a venue near Torino, Italy. Deadline for nominations is 28 February.
European Action Week Against Racism 2016
Diversity has given so much to European societies. In every part of our continent, people of different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds work together to build communities, deliver services and improve each other’s lives. It seems clear that diversity is the future.
Hope Not Hate Releases Exclusive Report on the Global “Counter-Jihad” Movement
UNITED network organisation Hope Not Hate has published a new report on the far-right “Counter-Jihad” movement. The Counter-Jihad Movement: Anti-Muslim hatred from the margins to the mainstream delves deep into the roots of the issue, and profiles key figures from the movement in Europe, North America and Australia.
Refugees Welcome: Visit of the EU Bottom-Up Initiatives to Berlin
On the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance celebrated on 16 November, representatives of bottom-up initiatives for assistance to refugees from five EU states were invited by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum to Berlin.
OSCE/ODIHR Publishes Hate Crime Data
ODIHR’s hate crime data for 2014 is now available. Forty-three participating States submitted information, along with 122 civil society groups covering incidents in 46 countries.
Football Against Fascism
Michael Oesterle of Sport Against Racism Ireland looks at the story of the Austrian-Jewish football club Hakoah Vienna and its hero Béla Guttmann
