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SEXISM, ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND HOMOPHOBIA IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: March monitoring highlights
Throughout the month of March, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. Cases of ethnic discrimination, religious hate speech and homophobia continue to influence the relations within societies in the Western Balkan region as well as the relations between neighbouring countries. Sexism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia In …
TROLL OF THE MONTH: TV show ‘Why Not?’
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. March Troll is TV show ‘Why Not?’ …
“THE RIGHT KIND OF REFUGEES”: RACISM IN THE WESTERN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE
Over six hundred thousand civilians have fled Ukraine to date, and the EU estimates that the number will go up to four million. The EU countries are “welcoming them with open arms”, lifting the normal rules for refugees and allowing them to settle where they want. Following this important and welcome development, some European politicians seem to …
HATE SPEECH BASED ON RELIGION, ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND HOMOPHOBIA IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: February monthly monitoring highlight
Throughout the month of February, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. This month we uncovered ethnic discrimination, religious hate speech and homophobia across the Western Balkan region. Antisemitism in North Macedonia Recently, in an article published by libertas.mk, a headline read “38-year-old woman from Ohrid with the message …
SQUASH ONLINE HATE SPEECH: Digital spaces exclude vulnerable groups
Three days ago, in a post on Twitter, I took the effort to call out the typical behavior of men who debate in the media sphere. In the tweet, I wrote that if men truly want to contribute to the social justice debate, they need to listen more and talk less and that their privilege …
TROLL OF THE MONTH: Serbian TV Prva
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. This month’s Troll is TV Prva, a …
ETHNIC TENSIONS AND SEXISM IN THE BALKANS: January monthly monitoring highlight
Reporting Diversity Network 2.0 media monitoring team continues to follow the media coverage of diversity across the Balkans. Throughout January, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. Ethnic discrimination in three Western Balkan states In Serbia, Marko Pantović, a member of the Priboj Police Administration, uploaded a video on …
TROLL OF THE MONTH: Gazeta Insajderi, an online website in Kosovo
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate on the internet based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkans region. Our January Troll of the Month is …
Holocaust Memorial Day Part 2: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Every year, on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day which is commemorated on 27 January the world recalls the greatest suffering in the history of mankind. It is a day when we remember the millions of people who were taken to concentration camps and were killed. For historian Milovan Pisarri, director of the Center for Public …