Teach and learn

Addressing hateful rhetoric, whether online or in real life, comes easier when one is equipped with sufficient knowledge and skills to identify and counteract hate speech. Here there are compiled a variety of digital resources that may help you learn and share knowledge on issues related to hate speech.

Hatred takes root in the soil of ignorance.”

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, United Nations Secretary-General, 2021

Guide for policy-makers and teachers

The power of education to counter hate speech online and offline

UNESCO and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect have jointly developed the first guide for policy-makers and teachers to explore educational responses to counter hate speech online and offline, and give practical recommendations for strengthening education systems. The guide is part of the implementation of the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech. Find out more here: What you need to know about the new guide on addressing hate speech through education.

Media Information Literacy (MIL)

Media information literacy for teachers website - available in 5 languages provides access to an international, multimedia and multi-language media and information literacy (MIL) teaching resources tool for educators, researchers and individuals. The tool contains interactive and intercultural teaching resources for use in formal and non-formal educational settings. The resources can be shared, adapted, used and re-uploaded by users at will. The aim is to facilitate intercultural/interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding through MIL.

Media and information literacy curriculum for teachers and learners - The media and information literacy (MIL) Curriculum for Teachers is intended as a tool to provide educators of all backgrounds with the main competencies (knowledge, skills and attitude) on MIL. It focuses on pedagogical approaches necessary to enable teachers to integrate MIL in their classrooms. The 2011 flagship resource available in 12 languages has been updated in April 2021 to incorporate new developments in the digital domain including artificial intelligence, the emergence of new concepts such as digital citizenship education, and the exponential rise in disinformation and online hate speech.

Verified and wikiHow online course on fighting misinformation - How do you know that the things you see online are true? Do you feel equipped to stop yourself becoming a victim of harmful misinformation? How do you keep yourself and your community safe on the internet? To answer these questions and more, we invite you to sign up to our free online course, ‘How To Fight Misinformation Online’. The course is designed by Verified and wikiHow – an online community of experts creating trusted how-to guides. When you sign up, you will receive one lesson per day to your inbox over the course of five days.

Genocide and Atrocity crimes

Beyond the long shadow: engaging with difficult histories - This live discussion series aims to develop a deeper understanding of the legacies of painful human tragedies – and through examining the past, consider how best to build a world that is just, where all can live in dignity and peace. Several video episodes explore issues in relation with genocide and hate speech such as resilience to disinformation, “fake news”, conspiracy theories and the role of media in disseminating hate.

United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust - As part of its mandate to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust provides to the public numerous multimedia educational resources as well as professional development programmes, a file series, panel discussions and exhibitions.

United Nations Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda - The information and educational outreach programme aims to mobilize civil society for remembrance of the victims of the 1994 genocide and education in order to help prevent future acts of genocide. The programme website provides the public with numerous multimedia resources, including documentaries and video testimonials and a graphic novel for the younger audience.

Journalism

Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training - Written by experts in the fight against disinformation, this handbook is part of the Series on Journalism Education and available in many languages. The 2018 publication makes an essential addition to teaching syllabi on the new threats to trusted information for all journalism educators, practising journalists and editors but also all public interested in navigating our digital age “information disorder”.

Practical and legal tools to protect the safety of journalists - two practical guidelines: Gender-sensitive Safety Policies for Newsrooms and a Practical Guide for Women Journalists on How to Respond to Online Harassment, both in collaboration with the International Women’s Media Foundation. These publications aim to inform both newsrooms and women journalists themselves about the techniques and tools they may adopt to prevent and respond to violence and harassment in an effort to foster gender-sensitive workplaces.