Tackling hate speech: Living Together Online - a conference organised by the Council of Europe in partnership with the EEA and Norway Grants. The conference will bring together stakeholders such as government agencies, media, civil society funders, youth and human rights non-governmental organisations to examine the possible ways of tackling hate speech.

The conference to take place in Drammen, Norway 12-13 March 2012, aims to bring together existing research in these fields and consider ways in which education for democracy and democratic citizenship might be strengthened in the context of diversity.

This guide by Amnesty International describes what a Human Rights Friendly School is and what it can achieve, and offers practical suggestions on how to integrate human rights in schools around the world. It explains how the 10 global Principles for Human Rights Friendly Schools can be integrated into four key areas of school life: governance, relationships, curriculum and extra-curricular activities, and school environment. It describes the steps schools can take to plan and implement the project.

The documentary film A Path to Dignity was launched at a side-event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. "A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education" is a 28-minute movie that presents three stories illustrating the impact of human rights education respectively on school children in India, law enforcement agencies in Australia and women victims of violence in Turkey. It is intended as a tool to raise awareness about the positive role that human rights education can play in realising human rights.

EWC's Head of Research presented results of the project "TeacMem. Developing Competence-Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories” during the international conference on "Structures and Processes of Commemorating Cruelties in Academe and History Teaching: The Commemoration of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and of the National Socialist Crimes in Comparison” that was held at Hamburg University in September.