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Authoritarian backlash on LGBTQ rights: a case of Russian anti-LGBTQ laws and the increase in the level of hate crime that they triggered

By Sergei Katsuba, University College, Dublin, Ireland In December 2023, the Russian Supreme Court labeled the “international LGBT movement” as extremist. This decision marked the culmination of a troubling 30-year journey from the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993 to the enactment of the “gay propaganda law” in 2013 and finally to the “extremist” status in…

On 2nd August 2024 by Zoe James in Human Rights

The Online Hate Speech Interventions Map

By Charlotte Freihse & Vladimir Bojarskich Interventions against hate speech emerge almost daily. Measures range from policies to tech-innovations, to counter speech projects. Given the diverse approaches to counter hate speech online, we developed a hate speech interventions map to highlight the distinct approaches of different kinds of interventions. Furthermore, we suggest that a research-…

On 15th August 2023 by Mark Walters in Hate crime prevention, Hate Speech, Interventions, Online hate

Is the burning of the Pride flag a hate crime?

By Mark Walters, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex. Pride month is a celebration of all things LGBTQ+. Yet recently it has become a source of division, both between LGBTQ+ communities and wider society, as well as between subgroups within the community itself. Of particular contention has been the use of a…

On 28th June 2023 by Mark Walters in Biphobia, hate crime, Hate crime legislation, homophobia, LGBT hate crime, Online hate, transgender hatred, transphobic hate crime

Dismantling hate through cultural consumption

By Daria Denti, Economist, and Assistant Professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics The spread of hate has stimulated institutional commitments in victim support, deterrence, and the investigation of local risk and protective factors associated with the emergence of hate. Current research on risk…

On 27th June 2023 by Mark Walters in Context Effect, hate crime, Hate crime causation, Hate crime prevention, Participation in cultural activities, Research

Shiaphobic Hate Crime: an invisible yet growing form of sectarian hate

by Michael Dhanoya and Dr Chris Allen, University of Leicester In recent months, a number of events have catalysed a rise in Shiaphobia. Unlike Islamophobia which typically refers to religiously-motivated hate perpetrated by non-Muslims against Muslims, Shiaphobia may be loosely defined as religiously-motivated hate perpetrated by Sunni Muslims against Shi’a Muslims. Here in the UK,…

On 4th October 2022 by INHS Blog Editor in hate crime, Hate Crime Policy, Hate Speech, Impacts of hate crime, Islamophobia, Islamophobic hate crime, LEICESTER HATE CRIME PROJECT

Roma in a war struck Ukraine: An interview with Nataliia Tomenko

This article was originally published by DiKKO on 01.03.2022 We, Maria Dumitru and Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, are calling Nataliia Tomenko, a young Roma woman, academic and activist, who woke up to her beloved country at war. She cannot tell us what day it is. She only knows it’s the fourth day of the war. In the…

On 7th July 2022 by INHS Blog Editor in Uncategorized and tagged Roma

Reforming Indian hate speech laws’

By Sarthak Gupta In India, the polarization in religion between the majority community and the minority community has been long-drawn-out because of rich-cultural history. However, from the 19th Century, the foremost root of political and societal polarization in India has been a foundational question of nationhood – Should India be a secular republic or a…

On 23rd March 2022 by INHS Blog Editor in Attitudes, hate crime, Hate Crime Policy, Hate Speech, Uncategorized and tagged hate crime, Hate crime law, Hate speech

Where does online hate happen?

By Daria Denti Online hate and places Despite being a digital phenomenon, online hate speech does not happen is a spatial vacuum. Digital hatemongers are grounded in a spatial environment which might influence their behaviors and beliefs. Nonetheless, the influence of places on cyberhate production is only rarely investigated. Recent studies show that cyberhate does…

On 17th January 2022 by INHS Blog Editor in Attitudes, Hate Speech, Online hate, Research, Uncategorized

A Response to the Law Commission’s Hate Crime Law Final Report

By Jon Garland, Jo Smith, Mark Walters and Irene Zempi On December 7th the Law Commission for England and Wales published its long awaited final report on hate crime laws. In 2018 the Government requested that the Commission look into whether the law should be expanded to include new characteristics (including gender or sex) and…

On 16th December 2021 by Mark Walters in Football, Gender critical feminism, Gendered violence, hate crime, Hate crime legislation, Hate Speech, misogyny, Stirring up hatred, transgender hatred

The Re-Emergence of ‘Race’ Among the British Far-Right

By Prof Chris Allen Around the turn of the 21st century, an ideological turn was evident within the British far-right milieu. Breaking with tradition, far-right groups turned away from their focus on ‘race’, Judaism and Jewish people in preference of Islam and Muslims. Spearheaded by the British National Party (BNP), those such as the English…

On 10th November 2021 by INHS Blog Editor in Black Lives Matter, Extremism, hate crime, Hate Speech, Politics, Uncategorized