The project “New Media Literacy Strategies to Counter Antisemitism” aims to empower relevant actors from various sectors, particularly at the local level, to develop and implement effective strategies against hate speech, discrimination, misinformation, and disinformation targeting communities. Building on the successful EU-funded project, coordinated by FIDU, “Media Literacy for Democracy…

The Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) is pleased to announce its submission of a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of Nazım Altıntaş v. Türkiye (Application no. 12052/20). FIDU was granted leave to intervene by the President of the Section on August…

FIDU expresses grave concern for the life of Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is being held in the Omsk penal colony in Siberia and has reportedly been hospitalized at the facility since July 4th. His lawyers have been prevented from seeing him and there are fears for his health condition,…

On Thursday, May 23, 2024, the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) held a conference in the Italian Senate (Sala ISMA) titled “Hong Kong: Beijing’s Expanding Campaign to Crush Dissent Globally” in collaboration with the Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella” (GCRL) and hosted by Senator Giulio…

As a conclusive action of the MLFD project, the consortium has issued a set of policy recommendations for advancing media literacy initiatives targeting civil society, media workers, and institutions. Media Literacy for Democracy is a project implemented under the EU’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme. It is focused…

On Tuesday 12 November 2023 in Rome, at Spazio Europa, the preview screening of the documentary “INVISIBLE” was held on the case of Ukrainian civilian prisoners in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories. Today, around 7,000 Ukrainian civilians are illegally detained by the occupiers, usually in unbearable conditions, without…

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A new book published by Routledge explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism with also a focus on Uyghur forced labour. Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities, Socio-Political, Economic, and Environmental examines the inequalities and injustices that this relationship embodies and engenders within the interconnected domains of production, consumption, labour, and…

150 international human rights and legal experts and organisations, Nobel laureates and individuals of conscience that published an open letter on Thursday calling on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to cancel its upcoming event with the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, who stands accused of crimes against humanity during…

On the initiative of Libereco, twenty human rights organisations from ten different countries signed a letter that has been sent to 413 Belarusian judges. In the letter, the organisations call out the judges’ involvement in human rights abuses and unjust imprisonment of innocent people in Belarus. The judges addressed have been…