Training Course: "Taking Action Against Sexist Hate Speech" in Slovak Republic

Training Course: "Taking Action Against Sexist Hate Speech"
13-21 August 2022 | Bojnice, Slovak Republic

Training course for youth workers, leaders and educators who would like to create safe space for everyone in their youth work activities, support young people who experience hate speech and participate at prevention campaigns and strategies.

Training course applies approaches and methods of human rights education and eduction for democratic citizenship. Programme is build on 4 pillars:
1. Developing base: team building, creating safe space, sharing experience, learning needs and expectations;
2. Discovering the topic: discovering forms and targets of hate speech, prevention of hate speech in the contex of human rights and human rights education;
3. Hate speech and gender equality: sexism, hate speech targeting people because of their sex, gender or sexual orientation, forms of sexist hate speech, how to overcome gender or LGBT+ biases in youth work;
4. Practice: introduction to legislative framework, sharing tools to build resilience, develop advocacy activities and raising awareness.