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- Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, will host a regional forum from 26 to 29 October 2021
- The event is aimed to raise awareness and build the capacity of media practitioners to prevent and combat hate speech in Central Africa.
Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, will host a regional forum from 26 to 29 October 2021. The event is aimed to raise awareness and build the capacity of media practitioners to prevent and combat hate speech in Central Africa.
The meet is organized by the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Commission, in collaboration with the Cameroonian government, the United Nations Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa (UNCHRD-AC), the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office in the DRC (UNJHRO), the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and the UNESCO Office for Central Africa.
The forum targets mainly journalists from professional organizations and will provide an opportunity to review the different hate words generally used in the media by participants from Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and Chad.The Douala Forum will also focus on the different situations with regards to the dissemination of hate messages, their meaning, as well as on the tools to prevent and combat them.
