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This is one of the findings of our first report, The Hate Map of Brazil. Although defined by law, the concept of hate crime is not very well-known in Brazil. The country doesn’t have a monitoring scheme and many people don’t know crimes motivated by bias based on race, colour, religion, and origin are hate… Continue reading BRAZIL RECORDS MORE THAN 12,000 HATE CRIMES IN 2018

The 14th Women ‘s Dossier recently released by the Public Security Institute (Brazil) reveals that in Rio de Janeiro state women represent more than half of victims of crimes such as willful murder (when they intend to kill), rape, femicide (murder of women simply because they are women: gender-based hatred), sexual harassment, domestic violence, bodily… Continue reading More than 60% of femicides recorded in Rio de Janeiro happened indoors

It cannot be denied, the importance of preventing and countering violent extremism, especially in a society where anyone can access messages full of hate. To Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) — an entity linked to the European Commission and created to prevent and combat violent extremism —education is one of the main allies in this mission.… Continue reading The edges of hate: the role played by education in preventing radicalisation

Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland. On September 1st, 1939,  the Second World War was starting. It was one of the biggest atrocities in human history.  Between 70 million and 85 million died, among those, around 30 million were civilians killed by military activity committing crimes against humanity. When Hitler raised to power in 1933,… Continue reading On the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, we must remember wars are made by human beings and as human beings we must speak up against any ideology that incites hate

Submission and mind control are the main techniques used by extremists for recruitment. This is one of the findings of the study conducted by Trujillo, Humberto M., Ferrán Alonso, José Miguel Cuevas, and Manuel Moyano published in April in the Journal of Social Studies of the Andes University (Universidad de los Andes – Colombia). According to… Continue reading How extremists have won hearts and minds

            The UN report produced in partnership with Brazilian leaderships “Violence against women on the Internet: diagnosis, solutions, and challenges” launched in 2017 at the Internet Forum has contributed to establishing and mapping the different manifestations of violence on digital media, in which aggressive speeches try to silence voices and… Continue reading Complaints of online hate speech towards women in Brazil jumps from 961 to 16.717 in 2018

Shanthi Annan, the founder of Mandela Mile, is a global social entrepreneur who advises and invests in business projects across a range of industries. She guides the strategy of various charities and works in partnership with organisations to develop community building, impact and engagement initiatives. Shanthi is married to Kojo Annan, the son of late Kofi… Continue reading BE THE LEGACY: The Mandela Mile explained by its founder, Shanthi Annan

As part of the celebrations of the second anniversary of “Words Heal the World”, we had a chat with Beatriz Buarque, the founder of this organization. Last month, Words Heal has been awarded by the Michigan State University with an important prize: The Transcendence Award. Since we love creating new things, we decided to make… Continue reading “Words Heal the World is not about me. It is about us”