El Grupo de Alto Nivel de la UE sobre la lucha contra la incitación al odio y los delitos de odio se reúne en Madrid durante dos días
10/10/2023
Spanish EU Presidency
The EU High Level Group on Combating Hate Speech and Hate Crime meets in Madrid for two days
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The Spanish representation in the GAN is held by the Ministries of Inclusion (through the OBERAXE) and Justice
The meeting will be attended by, among others, the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders; the Commissioner of Equality, Helena Dalli and the Minister of Justice of Spain, Pilar Llop Cuenca and the Secretary of State for Migration, Isabel Castro
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The EU High Level Group (HLG) on the fight against hate speech and hate crime, coordinated by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice, meets in Madrid on 10 and 11 October, as part of the events organised on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During these two days, the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, the Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli, the President of the European Parliament’s Committee on Freedoms, Justice and Home Affairs, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, the Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop Cuenca, the Secretary of State for Migration, Isabel Castro and the Spanish sportswoman Adiaratou Iglesias, who will relate her life story as a benchmark for improvement, will participate. Also represented will be European organisations such as the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights; and international organisations such as the UN, the Council of Europe or the OSCE. On the part of Spain, representation in the GAN is held by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, through the Spanish Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (OBERAXE) and the Ministry of Justice.
The GAN aims to advance against hatred and intolerance in Europe by promoting synergies and exchanging good practices between national authorities. They address different forms of hatred and intolerance, beyond racism and xenophobia, such as LGBTIQ hate crimes and hate speech, the revision of the “Code of Conduct against Hate Incitement on the Internet”, which was signed in 2016 by the European Commission with social media platforms operating on EU territory, or the entry into force of the Digital Services Act.