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UN Official: Europe Is Facing No “Refugee Crisis”
July 13, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has called for the debunking of claims that Europe is experiencing any sort of “refugee crisis” caused by migrants from North Africa or the Middle East, arguing that the true crisis is present in other regions.
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UN Official: Prevent Extremism Through “Citizenship Education”
July 13, 2018
At a recent event hosted by the Institute of International Education, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini emphasized how national policymakers could use the UN body’s Global Citizenship Education agenda to prevent violent extremism and counter radicalization among students across the globe.
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UN Official Seeks “Gender-Sensitive” Path to Halt Extremism
July 12, 2018
In recent remarks, Åsa Regnér of UN Women calls for a “human rights-based and gender-sensitive” approach to the global prevention of violent extremism by “empowering” young women to combat extremism and including them in prevention and deradicalization efforts.
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UN Agency Examines IS Propaganda Aimed at Women
July 12, 2018
UN Women has published a report examining the use of “gendered messaging” and a “false sense of empowerment” in propaganda of the Islamic State (IS) to convince women to travel to the IS caliphate and obey the terrorist group’s strict moral code, including unwavering obedience to one’s husband.
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OSCE Hosts Workshops on “Hate Speech” in Montenegro
July 12, 2018
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Montenegro recently organized a pair of workshops among representatives of local public broadcasters in the country focused “on the promotion of tolerance and the prevention of hate speech in media.”
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