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Attorney-General Responds to OHPI Report
Following the terrorist attacks in France in January 2015, the Online Hate Prevention Institute produced a detailed report “Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders“. This report included a number of recommendations about the boundaries between free speech and hate speech, and the link between hate speech and…
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Community Consultation on RDA
OHPI was invited to participate in a community consultation on RDA organised by the Australian Human Rights Commission in Melbourne. The Consultation was spearheaded by the Race Discrimination Commissioner at the AHRC Tim Soutphommasane, and was attended by many government and non-government organisations working in the field of community relations. OHPI took the opportunity to highlight how…
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OHPI attends RDA@40
OHPI attended the conference RDA@40 in Sydney on February 19 and 20, 2015 organised the Australian Human Rights Commission. The conference was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Racial Discriminate Act (RDA), and was a part of year long celebrations being planned by the Commission. The conference looked at both…
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Fight Against Hate Flyer
This flyer about the Online Hate Prevention Institute, and our Fight Against Hate online reporting tool, have been distributed at a number of recent events. Raising awareness helps us development new partnerships, gain greater reach and have a greater impact against online hate. You can click on the flyer to save it as a pdf…
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Operation Crystal
Fight Online Bad Guys, make a real world Impact! Join an exclusive team in a 24 hour, in-person, cyber-warfare operation against antisemitism. Saturday night, 14th of March and Sunday 15th of March. This weekend a group of young people, aged 18 to 35, will spend 24 hour at a cutting edge event tackling online…
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Australian feminist shares her experience of online misogyny
To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, the Online Hate Prevention Institute will be publishing a briefing by the Australian feminist campaigner Caitlin Roper to highlight how online expressions of violence against women are a major threat to women’s empowerment. Caitlin Roper is a member of the grassroots organisation Collective Shout, which campaigns against objectification of…
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OHPI welcomes new laws
The Online Hate Prevention Institute congratulates the Australian Government on the passage of the “Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014” through the Senate yesterday. The new laws empower the Government to fine social media companies up to $17,000 per day if they fail to remove cyberbullying content targeting children in reasonable time. The Online…
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Parents’ Congress to tackle the issue of cyberbullying
OHPI has taken a lead role in fighting cyberbullying, particularly among children. In 2012, we actively participated in the Coalition’s Review of Online Safety for Children. Some of our recommendations were eventually included in the Enhanced Online Safety for Children Bill that will come up for consideration before the Senate next month. The submission can…
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OHPI in The Melbourne Jewish Report
The Online Hate Prevention Institute talks to the The Melbourne Jewish Report about the ways in which extremism can be spread and facilitated online.
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OHPI in The Melbourne Jewish Report
Hanna Baum “Online Hate Prevention Institute”, The Melbourne Jewish Report, Vol 2, 13 February 2015. A topic of overwhelming interest in our Jewish community and the general community is the rise of ISIS. Australia has more than 70 young people in Syria, Iraq, and other states fighting under the extremist Islamic flag (Julie Bishop ABC…