L’édition 2020 de l’appel à projets locaux "Mobilisés contre le racisme, l’antisémitisme et la haine anti-LGBT" est lancée !
Il vise à soutenir les acteurs de terrain engagés au quotidien pour faire reculer la haine et l’intolérance, notamment à travers l’éducation, la prévention, la formation et l’aide aux victimes, ainsi que par des actions de sensibilisation.
Ensemble, continuons à faire reculer la haine. Plus...
Propos discriminants et actes violents, quelles réponses apporter?
C’est autour de cette question que Pistes solidaires a lancé les 6 et 7 novembre 2019 le projet de coopération Youth2Unite avec le soutien du Programme européen Erasmus+ + volet Jeunesse. Rassemblés à Pau, les partenaires venus spécialement de Chypre, de Grèce, d’Allemagne et de Grande-bretagne,se sont accordés sur le constat suivant: il est aujourd’hui plus que jamais nécessaire d’encourager et de mener une réflexion autour des discriminations. Plus...Secretary General: urgent measures needed to fight anti-Semitism and online hate speech
In a live television interview on German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has highlighted the key role of the Council of Europe in countering a rising trend of anti-Semitism and online hate speech in Europe and further afield. Speaking after an official visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the Secretary General drew attention to the Council’s work in the field of Holocaust remembrance, and emphasised that all countries and international organisations needed to do more to tackle anti-Semitism. More...Symposium “Racism and Antisemitism – commonplace in Europe?” at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
The Center for Applied European Studies (CAES) invites interested participants to attend the symposium “Racism and Antisemitism – commonplace in Europe?” on 22 November at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. More...Book review: Taking Up Space
There is a fairly clear consensus in higher education that we have a lot of work to do to tackle racial inequality. Students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups (a controversial classification in its own right) have poorer experiences at university than White students. Numbers of Black academics are startlingly low. Hate crimes are still taking place on campus, with a recent report from Universities UK highlighting that not enough work has taken place to tackle racial harassment since it last reported in 2016. More...‘Xenophobia in the system’: university staff launch fightback against hostile environment
With overseas academics being deported or denied permission to work, some colleagues are saying enough is enough. More...
The manhandling of a blind man shows the Oxford Union still has a race problem
The debating society felt like a hostile environment when I was studying at the university. Shockingly, it still is. More...
Inhumane treatment of Ebenezer Azamati at the Oxford Union
I was horrified to read of Ebenezer Azamati’s treatment at the Oxford Union, but sadly not surprised (Blind student dragged from Oxford Union ‘by his ankles’, 18 November). My own experiences 30 years ago also showed an elitist institution seeped in privilege. I was assaulted in the union’s bar when a rather posh chap demanded that I and my friends give him the table we were at. More...
Getting Beyond Offensive Costumes
By Greta Anderson. Students of color at Franklin & Marshall College say culturally insensitive and racist Halloween costumes worn by athletes are part of deeper racial problems on campus. More...
Discrimination Influences Student Activity and Mood
By Greta Anderson. Students who reported being discriminated against for various reasons changed their activity levels and showed indications of depression, University of Washington researchers found. More...