Facing Facts

Facing Facts is an initiative created by CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an inclusive Europe and co-funded by the Commission. It focuses on combating hate crime and hate speech through training, advocacy and action research, and Network collaboration. The Facing Facts Network is a multi-stakeholder partnership of civil society organisations and public authorities that works to better understand and address hate crime and hate speech through research, training and advocacy. Since its inception in 2011, we have developed methods to make racist, antisemitic, anti-muslim, disablist and homophobic hate crimes visible. We began as a partnership of four NGOs to develop the first ‘train the trainer’ programme on monitoring hate crimes for civil society organisations. We then moved on to develop online learning programmes on identifying, monitoring and countering hate crime and hate speech, which have been consistently highly evaluated by our learners. From 2015-2018 we researched what really supports cooperation across national systems of actors - state and civil society- to ensure a victim and outcome focused response to hate crime and hate speech. Our findings have been cited in major EU publications on hate crime reporting, recording and victim support. We represent our members in key EU policy-forums on hate crime and hate speech and continue to reflect on our own work through regular blogs In 2021 we secured a major grant to continue and build on our work, and to support the Network. Interested in our online courses? Go to Facing Facts Online Interested in joining the Network? Find out more here