This handbook focuses on the significant role of the media in advancing dialogue and solidarity among people, and the role of the Council of Europe in promoting standards and good practice.

In this report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief focuses on the need to respect and protect freedom of religion or belief of persons belonging to religious minorities. In his conceptual observations on this issue, he emphasizes that the rights of persons belonging to religious minorities should be consistently interpreted and implemented from a human rights perspective.

Surveying over 2000 Facebook fans of Hungary’s far-Right political party Jobbik, this study finds that far from being the ‘typical angry young men’ so often portrayed in the media, the party’s supporters (or at least those signed on to the page on Facebook) are ‘young, educated, eurosceptic, pessimistic and prejudiced’.

The authors of the European Convention on Human Rights sought to establish an institutional framework based on democratic values in order to overcome extremism.
Thus, the European Court of Human Rights has identified a number of forms of expression which are to be considered offensive and contrary to the Convention (including racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, aggressive ationalism and discrimination against minorities and immigrants). Here some of the factsheet that would help in the understanding of the legal framework established by the european system concerning hate speech.

The report focuses on the use of the internet for propagating racial hatred and violence, as well as the key issues that need to be faced to overcome such discriminatory practices.