UK National Training Course on Human Rights Education

The Council of Europe’s No Hate Speech Movement (NHSM) campaign was set up to mobilise young people in awareness-raising and acting on the issues related to hate speech and human rights online. From 2013 to 2015, member states set up National Campaign Committees (NCC) and took part in the European campaign to gain a better understanding of the issues young people are concerned with and ways forward to counter this challenge to human rights and democracy. In May 2015, in the framework of the Action Plan on the fight against violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism, the Committee of Ministers decided to continue the No Hate Speech Movement campaign until 2017. This campaign remains driven by the need to counter online hate speech in all its forms, including those that most affect young people, such as cyberbullying and cyber hate, racism and other forms of discrimination. The campaign is based upon human rights education, youth participation and media literacy. The thematic focus of the campaign in 2016-2017 will be Antisemitism, Sexist hate speech, Refugees, Root causes of violent extremism, Counter-narratives, and Reporting and Education. For these reasons AICEM together with YouthLink Scotland, EuroMernet, UPF-UK, the Asha Foundation and other organizations want to promote a training course to give a boost to already existing movements promoting the values of human rights in the UK. This training course aims to: • Promote human rights (HR) among young people and their role as citizens, to contrast discrimination based on background in the process. Explore ways young people can use both offline and online tools to exercise and defend democratic rights use them to engage and influence political decision related to Human Rights (HR) and Human Rights Education (HRE). • Empower youth workers of our local partner in the UK with tools and methodologies on HRE in order to start a common campaign in the UK and to support participants to implement concrete actions through their organizations, implementing new projects and positively influence local authorities on the importance of HRE. Participants need to have the following profiles:  Representatives of youth organisations, youth workers, students, teachers, young journalists with experience in human rights education or interfaith dialogue or motivated and committed to start working on combating hate speech;  Representatives from NGOs working against hate speech, from human rights NGOs, human rights defenders, etc. Call for participants, application procedure and deadlines We are now opening the call for participants for this seminar. All interested candidates must complete the application form attached to this call. The application must be submitted by 7th July(extended deadline) 2016, before midnight at the following e-mail address: ilaria.esposito@aicem.it Practical and financial conditions Timetable The seminar will include two weeks of online preparation and action on the topic of the seminar starting from 18th July. The total amount of online hours requested from the participants will be around 10 hours to be distributed throughout this period and at the participant’s convenience. The seminar will start at 2pm on 1 August and end at 4pm on 7 August. The afternoon of 5th August will include a public debate on the topic of the training course at the Houses of Parliament where activists and national representatives of the No Hate Speech Movement (NHSM) campaign will be speaking and widening the discussion on several matters. For further info please see the call and the application form attached.