Countering Hate Speech and Hurtful Speech against Diversity: Roma, LGBTIQ, Jewish and Migrant Communities

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The CHAD project aims at addressing intolerance, racism, xenophobia, homo- and transphobia, and discrimination through building the capacities of civil society organisations and their communities in recognizing, identifying, monitoring, and combating hate speech and hurtful speech online through creating an alliance of Roma, Jewish, LGBTIQ, migrant and human rights organisations and communities in Hungary; and bringing the experiences, the gathered knowledge and the results to the European level. Throughout the project vulnerable communities will monitor and analyse hate speech and hurtful speech exclusively in Hungary, because monitoring of hate speech is very specific of language and national context, and the national legislation on hate speech is the one which prevails over the international one. In the next stages, the trainings, campaigns, conferences and working groups will extend the scope of the project internationally. The objectives of the project are to build a strong, capable coalition of migrant, Roma, Jewish and LGBTIQ organisations and communities on national and international level; address the legal limitations of hate speech and advocate for a most extensive definition; contribute to the disaggregated data collection on hate speech and hurtful speech affecting migrants, Roma, Jewish and LGBTIQ people in Hungary and internationally; create and disseminate counter-narratives available for organisations and individuals to deploy when facing hate- or hurtful speech; create a set of tools and methodologies compiled in a form of a toolkit for monitoring and countering hate speech and hurtful speech; and address the inadequate or missing responses of public bodies, media workers and private companies to hate- and hurtful speech and develop their tools to combat them.