This brief report of the conference “Tackling hate speech: Living together online” is not a full account of who said what and when in Budapest. Based on the contributions by speakers, contemporaneous reports and Council of Europe and other standards, it distils key issues addressed and recommendations which emerge—with an eye to the youth campaign against hate speech online to be launched in 2013.

Council of Europe (CoE) organised a conference on EDC/HRE at the end of November 2012 on the impact of the CoE Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. This is the report from the conference written by the General Rapporteur, Prof. Audrey Osler.

In his presentation, Prof Jackson gives an account of the emergence of an interest in the study of religions in publicly funded schools by the Council of Europe, with particular reference to its Recommendation to member states on this subject.

This is Prof Robert Jackson's presentation at the public debate on "Faith in Schools" that took place in Westminster on 22 February. The debate attracted a lot of attention and included members of Parliament and the House of Lords as well as representatives of many NGOs concerned with religions and beliefs. It was chaired by Charles Clarke, former UK Minister of Education.

Robert Jackson's presentation at the second Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, in Istanbul 2009. In his presentation, Jackson concentrates on education about religious diversity with a special emphasis on the relationship between the interpretive approach and tolerance/respect.