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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 …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: TV Happy
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 June Troll of the Month was …
HOMOPHOBIA IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlight
Throughout May, the RDN monitoring team has detected a range of hateful narratives. Due to June being the month that several events take place globally to recognise the impact of the LGBTQ+ community we will have a country spotlight that focuses on homophobia. During our monitoring activities we have also encountered incidents relating to hate …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: Fax.al news
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 May Troll is Fax.al news which …
“HATE SLAVS” – HATE SPEECH IN THE BALKANS
Hate speech is commonplace in public discourse in the Balkans Offensive language, insinuations, labelling, presenting false information about people in public discourse with no holds barred, whether it is the media or the assembly i.e., in public debates, or in messages on social media and other public platforms, has become more the norm than an …
HATE SPEECH IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: Monthly Monitoring Highlights
Throughout April, RDN monitoring team has detected diverse type of hateful narratives. This month we will have a country spotlight including five Western Balkans countries. Roma in North Macedonia: Hate speech from high school teacher on International Roma Day A teacher at the economic high school in Tetovo made offensive comments on her Facebook account …
BALKAN TROLL OF THE MONTH: Tahir Batatini, Kosovo Football Coach
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 April Troll is Kosovo football coach …
WE ARE BARELY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF SEXISM IN THE MEDIA
THREE HIGH PROFILE INCIDENTS IN A WEEK ARE PART OF A DEEPER-ROOTED PROBLEM. Three men walk into a bar: A sports trainer, a religious leader and a media owner, reads the script. With pretentious smiles and flamboyant steps they make their way to a free table. The waiter approaches them and asks what they would …
“YOUNG&DIVERSE” PODCAST WITH SELMA SELMAN – “I have to serve as a role model and that means that I cannot fail”
Selma Selman is an artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She incorporates her creativity, but also identity aspects into her artwork. Being part of a Roma family that earns their living from collecting and selling iron, Selma uses iron and reusable materials in her art. In her show Mercedes Matrix breaks a Mercedes car with the …