New tool to tackle hate speech in elections - Council of Europe

Republic of Moldova 10 November 2022

Council of Europe developed unneurotic with the Centre for Continuous Electoral Training of the Republic of Moldova (Training Centre) an e-course connected combatting hatred code successful elections, hosted connected the e-training level of the Training Centre.

The e-course offers grooming to cardinal electoral stakeholders - politicians, electoral officials and observers, journalists, and of people the public, funny to larn astir quality rights and hatred code ineligible provisions and standards.

Besides, the trainees volition larn about:

• the circumstantial provisions connected planetary and nationalist legislation, state of look and combatting hatred speech, cases analysed and settled by the European Court of Human Rights;
• national quality rights extortion mechanisms and recommendations enabling trainees to place and forestall this benignant of speech, that affects the integrity of electoral process successful the Republic of Moldova.

The rationale down the improvement of the e-course arises from reports by planetary and home predetermination observers who observed hatred speech, intolerant rhetoric, and verbal unit betwixt candidates during electoral campaigns successful the Republic of Moldova.

The e-course is unfastened for anyone and tin beryllium accessed here: (only successful Romanian).

This enactment was funded and implemented wrong the Council of Europe Project Improving Electoral Practice In The Republic of Moldova, Phase II.