"DecontRamination - addressing hate speech on the streets" is a project that wants to provide space for empowerment of young people, so we will know how to react and reclaim the spaces where hate speech happens in a form of graffiti and street art. Youth will reclaim those same spaces with decontraminated - transformed messages that will encourage respect, diversity, acceptance. The purpose of the project is to empower young people to address hate speech in public spaces through narratives that come from values of respecting human rights and international cooperation. We will directly include at least 40 young persons in the project from both local environments on a regular basis and extra 160 young persons on an occasional basis. We are also pursuing the next goals: - organize at least 10 activities per year in both local environments (together 40) connected to marking and celebrating international days and create messages, based on the positive values of those days, that aim to change hate speech we see on the streets - organize at least 3 workshops per year for young people in both local environments (together 12) about recognizing and addressing hate speech - to promote all activities on social media and further raise awareness about values of human rights and international cooperation - to empower and equip young people with skills for decontraminating hateful messages through the Loesje method of creative writing - to organize 2 international trainings for team members from both partner organizations in the area of support for youth groups for decontramination of hate speech. Even though young persons with marginalized backgrounds will be the ones directly included in the project, the results and activities on the local level will address all young people and the whole local community. In the long term, the project will bring more engagement in the local environment from young people to constructively reclaim and co-create public places in a way that comes from promoting the value of human rights.
Our aim was to empower young people to address hate speech in public spaces through narratives stemming from the values of respect for human rights and international cooperation. The goals we set and achieved were: - young people organised 10 activities per year in both local environments (40 in total) related to the celebration of international commemoration days and relied on the positive values derived from these days to create messages aimed at changing the hate speech we meet on the streets; - young people organised workshops for peers per year in both local environments (12 in total) to identify and address hate speech; - we promoted all activities on social networks, thus enabling wider awareness of the values of human rights and international cooperation; - empowered and equipped ourselves and our peers with skills to decontaminate hostile messages through the Loesje method of creative writing; - We directly involved at least 40 young people from both local communities on a regular basis and an additional 160 young people on an occasional basis; - The participating organisations organised 2 international trainings for support persons who supported the youth group.
With the project DecontRamination - addressing hate speech on the street, we wanted to provide young people with the space for empowerment, to be able to respond to the phenomena of hate speech in the form of hate graffiti and inscriptions and re-occupy these same public spaces with decontRaminated - altered messages that will encourage respect, diversity, acceptance. The purpose of the project is to empower young people to address hate speech in public spaces through narratives derived from the values of respect for human rights and international cooperation. The needs we addressed with the project were: - a safe space for young people who experience hate speech; - skills for addressing hate speech; - raising awareness of young people, local communities and target groups about the importance and need to respond to hate speech; - knowledge and understanding, the need for a framework within which young people can legally change hatred and thus promote respect for human rights; - creative and engaging approaches to how young people can express themselves; - understanding the importance of public space for young people, - expressing in and transforming the public space into a friendlier one.
"DecontRamination - addressing hate speech on the streets" is a project that wants to provide space for empowerment of young people, so we will know how to react and reclaim the spaces where hate speech happens in a form of graffiti and street art. Youth will reclaim those same spaces with decontraminated - transformed messages that will encourage respect, diversity, acceptance. The purpose of the project is to empower young people to address hate speech in public spaces through narratives that come from values of respecting human rights and international cooperation. We will directly include at least 40 young persons in the project from both local environments on a regular basis and extra 160 young persons on an occasional basis. We are also pursuing the next goals: - organize at least 10 activities per year in both local environments (together 40) connected to marking and celebrating international days and create messages, based on the positive values of those days, that aim to change hate speech we see on the streets - organize at least 3 workshops per year for young people in both local environments (together 12) about recognizing and addressing hate speech - to promote all activities on social media and further raise awareness about values of human rights and international cooperation - to empower and equip young people with skills for decontraminating hateful messages through the Loesje method of creative writing - to organize 2 international trainings for team members from both partner organizations in the area of support for youth groups for decontramination of hate speech. Even though young persons with marginalized backgrounds will be the ones directly included in the project, the results and activities on the local level will address all young people and the whole local community. In the long term, the project will bring more engagement in the local environment from young people to constructively reclaim and co-create public places in a way that comes from promoting the value of human rights.