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BRIDGE Main Challenge: A.5. Discrimination, racism and sociocultural polarisation, including hate speech
The project STAND-UP: Standing Up Against Hate in the EU addresses the rise of hate speech and attacks in the EU countries. Attacks against ethnic minority groups and nationalities are experienced in the form of physical and verbal attacks, hate crime and discrimination. Furthermore, there is a normalised and sophisticated hate propaganda, specifically targeting migrants and refugees, Roma, Jewish and other ethnic minorities. Hate speech, predominantly anti-Muslim, is becoming more prevalent, in part due to the growing use of the Internet and social media in Europe while, according to the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), hate incidents have increased over 15% in many EU countries (2021 data).
STAND-UP addresses hate, discrimination and intolerance towards migrants and ethnic minority groups in different European contexts, treating intolerance, racism and xenophobia as a multi-dimensional issue, deeply affected by structural power relations. The project explores ways on how national authorities can be empowered and supported in strengthening community, supporting and empowering the voices of victims and witnesses and challenging hate speech and behaviours that threaten EU values.
STAND-UP is a CERV project, aiming to prevent, challenge and speak out against hate, discrimination and intolerance towards migrants, refugees and other ethnic minority groups, including Roma and Jewish people, through capacity building, advocacy and knowledge sharing.
The STAND-UP project identifies and addresses a growing social problem concerning the civil rights of migrant/refugees and ethnic minority communities, as hate speech and discrimination that undermines social cohesion, is on the rise across Europe. The project focuses on the root causes of hate and intolerance in the EU countries, which are generated by racism and xenophobia, socio-economic inequalities, and lack of access to justice. A combination of historical, political and economic factors create hate and intolerance, resisting short-term fixes.
STAND-UP establishes a public authority-led, multi-agency model for countering hate crime, which is designed to illustrate and enhance complementarity of the work of different actors, leading to a streamlined and more efficient RIPP cycle, better victim support, and higher levels of trust between CSOs, law enforcement, judiciary, and victims.
The project encompasses A5 Challenge as it addresses discrimination, racism and sociocultural polarization as the grounding factors for hate speech and hate crime, exploring the respective legislation, focusing on proper support and compensation for affected persons and sharing information on reporting options for such incidents. The project focuses equally on victim support (and persecution of perpetrators) and prevention, which is in line with the BRIDGE methodology that considers intercultural education as an effective strategy to respond to discrimination and xenophobia.
The project develops a multilingual training package, a digital reporting tool and an awareness raising campaign to deepen understanding around hate speech and hate crime and support victims throughout the reporting, investigation, prosecution and prevention process. It employs open-source intelligence-led monitoring mechanisms to enhance victim assistance and inter-agency cooperation.
EU-level policy recommendations on supporting multi agency cooperation in countering hate crime, including through the use of technologies
Digital publication
A set of policy recommendations, highlighting the shortcomings in data collection and reporting mechanisms, in an attempt to address pervasive issues that contribute to low levels of reporting of hate crimes.
Professionals, Policy Makers
https://stand-up-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/STAND_UP_D6.3-EU-Policy-Paper_Final.pdf
Hate Crime and Hate Speech Victims Support Handbook
Manual
A Handbook offering support to public authorities (in particular LEAs and judicial bodies) through guidelines and best practices to strengthen victim support and protection throughout the reporting-investigation-prosecution-prevention process and promoting cooperation with CSOs to ensure the prioritisation of victim protection (as per Victims’ Rights Directive) by encouraging “sensitive investigation and prosecution”.
Professionals
https://stand-up-project.eu/hate-crime-hate-speech-victims-support-handbook-2/
Defining Hate Crime Report
Digital publication
A document critically discussing international, European and national legal frameworks in terms of non-discrimination and hate crime in the participating countries. By examining the existent legal order, the project strives to provide common standards that could contribute to a hate crime definition at EU level.
Professionals, Policy Makers
https://stand-up-project.eu/defining-hate-crime-report-what-is-hate-crime-2/
STAND UP Webinars Reports on islamophobia, xenophobia, right-wing and antisemitism
Educational videos
The reports from 4 webinars conducted within the project in February 2023, addressing different expressions of hate speech and hate crime in the participating countries and at EU level.
Researchers, Professionals, Policy Makers