HATE SPEECH
Arab Media Hub Against Hate Speech
Tom played a key role in the development of the Ethical Journalism Network's Arab Media Hub Against Hate Speech, a regional network to foster cooperation and collaboration between researchers, media and journalists. This included working with the Egyptian Editors Forum, Egyptian Media Development Programme (EMDP) and the American University of Cairo (AUC) to create a hate speech glossary developed in partnership with the EJN. Tom also worked with development two further hate speech glossaries, in Palestine and Jordan, as well as promote the EJN’s work in the region.
In November 2018, Tom Law, gave a lecture on hate speech and ethical journalism to 60 journalism students and academics at the University of Hebron’s journalism department, while visiting Palestineas part the EJN's work on hate speech.
Tom played a key role in the development of the Ethical Journalism Network's Arab Media Hub Against Hate Speech, a regional network to foster cooperation and collaboration between researchers, media and journalists. This included working with the Egyptian Editors Forum, Egyptian Media Development Programme (EMDP) and the American University of Cairo (AUC) to create a hate speech glossary developed in partnership with the EJN. Tom also worked with development two further hate speech glossaries, in Palestine and Jordan, as well as promote the EJN’s work in the region.
In November 2018, Tom Law, gave a lecture on hate speech and ethical journalism to 60 journalism students and academics at the University of Hebron’s journalism department, while visiting Palestineas part the EJN's work on hate speech.
Turning the Page of Hate
Tom organised and delivered workshops and seminars as part of the EJN’s campaign against hate speech in African journalism in Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda.
Tom organised and delivered workshops and seminars as part of the EJN’s campaign against hate speech in African journalism in Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda.
Other workshops and events
- Judicial Expertise on Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression in South East Europe: In March 2018, Tom gave a presentation on hate speech in media to an inter-professional seminar for judiciary and media actors, organized by the Council of Europe of the Press Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- MEDIA AGAINST HATE: Tom played an active role in the European Federation of Journalists Media Against Hate project, delivering training and speaking at events in Croatia, Belgium, Italy and London.
- Tom spoke at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) symposium on hate speech against migrants and refugees in the media on 13 December 2017 in Cairo, Egypt, in collaboration with Egypt Media Development Program (EMDP).
