Slovakia: Integration Forum 2022
Slovakia's Integration Forum, organised by the Human Rights League, offers the occasion for interesting and inspiring guests, experts in the field of migration and integration, non-governmental organisations, academia, the public sector and migrant communities - i.e. all actors involved and interested in the topic of migration and integration - to annually meet. This 2022 forum is dedicated to displaced people from Ukraine, challenges in their integration and issues of hate speech.
Programme
9:00 - 9:15 Opening of the Integration Forum
Zuzana Števulová, Human Rights League, Director
Oľga Gryshchenko, Human Rights League, attorney
9:15 - 10:40 Hate speech, hybrid threats and the context of war in Ukraine
Jozef Halcin, Director of the Crime Prevention Department of the Office of the Minister of the Interior of the Slovak Republic: Hate speech, presentation of research and knowledge from practice
Victor Breiner, Director of the Department for Hybrid Threats and Losses, Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic: Hybrid threats in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine
Radka Vicenová, Slovak National Center for Human Rights: Hate speech in a public space and monitoring of discrimination in connection with the war in Ukraine
Moderator: Miroslava Mittelmannová, Human Rights League
11:00 - 12:30 The situation of some minorities in relation to the causes of intolerance
Human Rights League, Islamic Foundation in Slovakia: Presentation of research on the topic of Islam and Muslims in the Slovak media, main findings and recommendations in relation to Islamophobia
Initiative Otherness: Hate speech against LGBTI people
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