🔊ECRI’s new report on the #SlovakRepublic welcomes progress but calls for stronger action against hate speech and hate crime, including online, and for further measures on Roma inclusion, equal access to healthcare and legal gender recognition.
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Account of the official pan-European #humanrights monitoring body of the @CoE specialised in combating #racism and 🏳️🌈 #intolerance. RT not endorsement.
- 📢ECRI’s new report on #Monaco welcomes progress, but calls for stronger legislation against hate speech, hate crime and discrimination, action against racist and LGBTI-phobic bullying in schools, and better protection for vulnerable foreign workers. Read more ➡️
- #ECRI Delegation visited 🇭🇺#Hungary from 1 to 5 June 2026 to gather information on tackling #hatespeech and hate crimes, ensuring #equality and #inclusion in #education and #healthcare. The report is expected to be published in 2027. Read more: go.coe.int/8d0F8
- European Commission against Racism and Intolerance repostedThe Council of Europe’s Commission against Racism and Intolerance @ECRI_CoE in its latest annual report warns against the ripple effects of the hate speech across democratic societies in Europe. The report is a stark reminder that hatred weakens democracies and pushes peopleAlarming hate speech levels across Europe, stronger action needed. Annual report 2025 by @ECRI_CoE notes increase in racist, anti-LGBTI and other hate speech. If left unchallenged, it fuels violence, exclusion, and distrust in institutions. Read more: coe.int/en/web/portal/…
- Hate. Online. Offline. In political discourse. Hate speech is spreading, and its impact goes far beyond words. Watch ECRI’s new video on why stronger action is needed to confront racist, anti-LGBTI and other forms of hate speech across Europe.
00:00 - 📢“𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬.” In a new interview, ECRI Chair Bertil Cottier explains why the growing trivialisation of hate speech across Europe should raise the alarm🚨and what can be done to counter it. Read the full interview:
- Alarming levels of racist, anti-LGBTI and other forms of hate speech continue to affect democratic societies across Europe. In its new annual report published today, ECRI calls for stronger action to tackle hate speech in politics, online and in schools, while protecting those
- #ECRI Delegation visited 🇬🇷#Greece from 20 to 24 April 2026 to gather information on tackling #hatespeech and hate crimes, ensuring #equality and #inclusion in #education and #healthcare. The report is expected to be published in 2027. Read more: coe.int/en/web/europea…
- European Commission against Racism and Intolerance reposted🤝SRSG @coe kicked off working cooperation on #antiMuslimHatredwith Amb. Dağdelen Akgün @OSCE and Coordinator EU Commission @EUAgainstAMH Information session to #CoE states on international organisations’ efforts & mandates in cooperation with @ECRI_CoE member Nihal Eminoğlu.
- ECRI holds its 100th plenary meeting and hearings of national specialists dealing with racial profiling by law enforcement officials Read more➡️go.coe.int/dHhJW
- Across Europe, racism and hate - online and offline - are on the rise. Targeting people because of their ethnic or religious background fuels fear, deepens polarisation, and threatens social cohesion and democracy. On International Day for the Elimination of Racial
00:00 - 📢ECRI publishes conclusions on how Iceland, Luxembourg, North Macedonia and Poland of its recommendations provided in 2023, for which priority follow-up was requested. go.coe.int/wCZL2













