Podcast: Censorship, human rights and the campaign against online hate speech

In this podcast, Dr Gavan Titley gives his views on the challenges posed by online hate speech and how human rights activists can mobilise against it.

Podcast: Fighting online hate speech

Preparations for next year’s campaign launch are well underway and contributors are meeting over the next three days to fine-tune their efforts to mobilse support – parrticularly among Europe’s youth groups – against online trolls who target the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities (LGBT), ethnic minorities, women, Roma and religious groups.

Podcast: This week

Panos Kakaviatos looks at how the organisation has been making headlines and previews the human rights week ahead.

Human rights commissioner fears silencing of anti-homophobia campaigners

In today’s ‘Comment’ article, the Commissioner for Human Rights writes that laws banning information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex (LGBTI) issues mark a “worrying step back towards a bygone era when homosexuals were treated like criminals.”

Court victory for Moldova LGBT rights group

Human rights judges have backed a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group banned from holding a street demonstration in Moldova.