Please join us in the National Union Building as the top three
international universities compete for the best creative social
and digital media counterspeech campaign.Â
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Presentations will be made to a judging panel of senior level officials,
experts and practitioners and the winner will be announced on-site.Â
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A hosted reception with hors d’oeuvres downstairs in the Speakeasy following
the presentations will celebrate the students' efforts to challenge online
discrimination, hate speech and extremism in their local communities.Â
Please RSVP by July 10th, 2018
Please join us in the National Union Building as the top three
international universities compete for the best creative social
and digital media counterspeech campaign.Â
  Â
Presentations will be made to a judging panel of senior level officials,
experts and practitioners and the winner will be announced on-site.Â
 Â
A hosted reception with hors d’oeuvres downstairs in the Speakeasy following
the presentations will celebrate the students' efforts to challenge online
discrimination, hate speech and extremism in their local communities.Â
Please RSVP by July 10th, 2018
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BONDING BEYOND BORDERS is an offline online campaign designed to counter intolerance and prevent discrimination from developing among 12-18 year olds in Belgium towards refugees. Bonding Beyond Borders created an interactive and fun board game to stimulate a genuine understanding of each other's life circumstances and was tested by teachers in classrooms throughout Belgium.Â
KIZ BASINA, challenges restrictive views of women's roles and inconsistent enforcement of laws which fail to protect Turkey’s more than 37 million women and girls. Kiz Basina provided empowering narratives about the progression of women’s rights through an online forum, and the team developed partnerships with the Ankara Chamber of Pharmacists and Turkish Pharmacists Association.Â
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KEY TO THE CITY, Lagos is a social awareness campaign which used person-to-person community outreach events, seminars, benefit concerts, flash mob dances, and social media to counter prejudice and discrimination against people who reside within slum communities in Lagos, Nigeria. This issue has been long overlooked, where an estimated 66% of the population lives, 11 million residents.
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