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HATE SPEECH IN SERBIAN AND BRITISH SPORT

Although miles apart, Serbia and the UK share a regrettable similarity: hate speech in sports. The slogans that are shouted at football matches are always directed against minority groups. In Serbia, the most common targets are members of the LGBTQ + community, Bosniaks, Albanians and the Roma community. The UK, on the other hand, has …

Nejra Latić Hulusić – Women, Activism and the Media

Nejra Latić Hulusić, a director and activist from Bosnia and Hetzegovina (BiH) recently posted on social media that she had been ordered to stop swimming at the Panonika beach in Tuzla because she was wearing a burkini -a full-body swimsuit. This is not the first time for women who wear the hijab and swim in …

HATE SPEECH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: July Monthly Highlights

Throughout the month of July, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. As we enter the tourist holiday season, there has been a rise in hateful narratives directed towards various ethnic groups including high levels of ethnic discrimination and racism across all six Western Balkan states. Tourism and the …

SERBIA’S GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE SCANDALS AND THE MEDIA’S RESPONSIBILITY

When Marija Lukic and Milena Radulovic decided to talk about sexual harassment, they opened the Pandora’s Box in Serbia. Cases started flooding the media about systematic sexual harassment and abuse as well as verbal abuse in schools, state run hospitals, state institutions, high ranked politicians. Marija Lukic who was the secretary of Milutin Jelicic – mayor of the …

BOSNIA’S NEW PORTALS ARE A FERTILE GROUND FOR HATE SPEECH AND SEXISM

In the countries of the Balkans, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, new media, most often portals, which provide no contact information or any information on the ownership or editorial structure on their pages are “emerging” every day. Clearly, their only mission is to make money, and for that they need clicks. That is why they abound …

TOURISM KNOWS NEITHER ETHNICITY NOR POLITICS

The summer tourist season is long awaited by everyone, especially after these two challenging years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many expect to explore new places as well as to spend quiet holidays. One of the attractive tourist destinations for the summer holidays is Albania. Tourists from different countries, including Serbia, choose to spend their holidays …

BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: T7 TV Channel

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 July Troll of the Month is …

HATE SPEECH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlights

Throughout the month of June, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives and discourse. As June was Pride Month, homophobia continued to be present within traditional and social media alongside a large range of hate speech including sexist narratives and ethnic discrimination across all six Western Balkan countries. Ethnic Discrimination between …