EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a fundamental rights report for 2021. In light of the ongoing pandemic, the year 2021 brought both progress and setbacks in fundamental rights protection. 

On April 9th 2022, the Centre for Peace Studies organized an interesting interactive activity "Faces of Solidarity Today" in the Močvara club with participants and coordinators of the Peace Studies program and other interested citizens.

20 October 2021

11:00 - 17:00 EET (Helsinki)

Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have a crucial role in respecting the rights of individual’s when member states fail to meet their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). 

As part of the project "Facts Against Hate", CPS is presenting two examples of good practice of intersectoral cooperation in the field of prevention of discrimination, hatred and violence.

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.