Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Finland published a guide for police officers and stakeholders "Good practices for identifying and preventing acts of hatred". This guide is a part of the joint project Facts Against Hate.
The guide is also available in Finnish, Swedish and Croatian.
The spreading of hate speech online is making it increasingly difficult to secure human rights, to protect human dignity, and to maintain the democratic standards of public communication and debate.
The ‘Mutual learning regional conference on good practices and lessons learned from countering hate speech online’, which was organised online on 14 and 15 October 2020, presented good practices, lessons learned and developments in combating hate speech online. It brought together experts and practitioners from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia and also experts from other EU Member States. The aim of the conference was to contribute to the mutual learning in this important field.
The following report represents one of eight national case studies feeding into the SOLIDAR Foundation’s annual Citizenship and Lifelong Learning Monitor 2019.
As in many other countries, Croatia has implemented measures to reduce the impact of the Corona virus (covid-19) epidemic. At the STIRE webpage you can find some useful links which offer advice on how to protect yourself and which regulations are taken in Croatia. Moreover, you can find contacts services and support that you could need as a foreigner in Croatia: medical help, psychosocial support, legal information.
Project „Facts Against Hate“ is continuation of the cooperation started in 2018 on the implementation of the project „Against Hate“.
Human Rights House Zagreb in partnership with the Centre for Peace Studies organizes a panel discussion "Regulation of Hate Speech on Social Networks – Threats to Freedom of Expression" at Croatian Journalist Association venue, Perkovčeva 2, Zagreb, on Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 10.
International conference "Good Practices in combating Hate Crimes and Hate Speech" was held on Monday, 21 October 2019 at the Croatian Journalist Association in Zagreb. It was organized by Centre for Peace Studies and Human Rights House Zagreb.
In Croatia, hate speech is on the rise – discriminatory, inflammable and discrediting content can be seen and heard in public and transmitted through the media - although Croatia has very good legislative framework that prohibits hate speech (or “incitement to hate”) through not just Penal Code (Article 325) but also through Anti-discrimination Act (under Article 25 on harassment). However, prohibition under the law is not enough – we are still lacking prosecution - or quality case law that could serve as prevention mechanism to the public and to the ones using hate speech.
