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PRESS
RELEASE
July 7,
2016
CEJI’s PROJECT FIRST
AWARDED TO RECEIVE EU GRANT
CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an
Inclusive Europe is delighted to announce it has
received a substantial amount from the European
Commission Directorate General Justice - Fundamental
rights and Union citizenship.These funds will support
the new project “Facing all the Facts”. Built
on the success of the European project “Facing Facts! – make hate crime
visible”, this new phase of the project aims to
build the capacities of law enforcement and public
authorities to take a victim-centered approach to
monitoring and recording hate crime and hate speech
through online trainings.
The two-year
grant will also support a research to identify gaps and
opportunities to improve cooperation and data sharing
between criminal justice systems and civil society
organisations. The research will inform EU policy
through evidenced and practice-based recommendations on
improving hate crime and hate speech recording,
reporting and training methods in these
areas.
“We at CEJI are very proud
Facing all the Facts has been awarded after a
competitive application and review process, getting the
highest score out of 125 eligible projects. This is a
great recognition for our constant work on developing
new training tools", CEJI's chairperson Baron Alain
Philippson said, "We are grateful to all our partners
and to the Facing Facts network of civil society
organisations for their support”.
The
project joins 11 partners from 9
European countries, representing different types of
stakeholders, including law enforcement organisations,
European organisations and civil society organisations
active in hate crime and hate speech
monitoring.
Facing all the Facts
is a new milestone in the organisation’s continued
effort in combating hate crime and hate
speech.
For more information about the
project please be in contact with Melissa Sonnino.
More
about the Facing Facts project
More about CEJI
Read the report of the Facing Facts Forward
Conference for a Victim Centred Approach to Tackling
Hate Crime
The Facing all the
Facts project is coordinated by CEJI in partnership with National University of Public Service
(HU), National Police Chiefs’Council (UK),
Osservatorio per la sicurezza contro gli
atti discriminatori (IT), European Network Against Racism
Ireland (IE), CIDI -Centrum Informatie en Documentatie
Israël (NL), Community Security Trust (UK), European Network for Independent Living -
ENIL, European Roma Information office –
ERIO, Movimiento contra la Intolerancia
(MCI), Praksis (GR)
Associated partners in
the project are ILGA-Europe, European Network against Racism
(ENAR), Social Platform, European Roma Rights Center
(ERRC), European Network on Religion and
Belief (ENORB) , European Union of Jewish Students
(EUJS), Generation 2.0 (Greece),COC (Netherlands), Interfederal Center for Equal
Opportunities - UNIA (Belgium), Institute for Criminal Policy Research
– Birkbeck College (London), Justice 21 (Bulgaria)
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