In order to track the most recent situation the International Students Association of the Riga Stradins University in January and February 2019 conducted a survey of foreign students about hate crimes and other forms of intolerance. 169 students took part in the anonymous survey.
The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the new generation of European citizens about the impact of hate speech on democratic participation and European values. Hate speech is often used as a tool to target different vulnerable groups, especially minorities, immigrants and refugees. It causes their alienation and exclusion which leads to marginalisation. Such narratives weaken democracy and strengthens positions of far right and radical right populists and Eurosceptics.
Although the overall removal rate of 70,6 % turned out to be only slightly lower compared to the last monitoring (-1,1 percentage points), this result is mostly owed to Facebook’s consistently high removal rate of 84,5% (+0,9 percentage points) and Instagram’s improvement to 77,2% (+6,6 percentage points). Twitter’s performance remained low at 44,9% (+1,4 percentage points), and YouTube only removed 67,8% of illegal hate content, a major drop of 17,6 percent points compared to its last checked performance.
CHILDREN, THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, VIOLENT EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM: An overview of law, policy and practice in six European countries Publikācija: Bērni, justīcijas sistēma, vardarbīgs ekstrēmisms un terrorisms: pārskats par likumdošanu, politiku un praksi sešās Eiropas valstīs
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND KEEPING SOCIETY SAFE: How to Strengthen Justice Systems for Children in Europe in the Counter-Terrorism Context? This publication is published in the framework of the project ‘Strengthening Juvenile Justice Systems in the counter-terrorism context: Capacity building and peer learning among stakeholders’, co-funded by the European Union’s Justice Programme (2014-2020).
