Projects in Russia

Navigating in information: Identify, evaluate, use. (2020-2021)

Lesetid: 1 min

Aim: Developing knowledge among children and youth on media and information literacy (MIL) and providing specific tools for assessing reliability of information.

Children and youth in the Baltic Sea Region in a digital world

Activities: Presentation the exhibition “Fake news”, round-table discussions and workshops for pupils, teachers, parents in the northwest of Russia. Publication of a guideline on media literacy and critical thinking.
Partners: Danish Cultural Institute in Russia (St. Petersburg), the Nordic Journalists Centre, Media Council for Children and Youth (Denmark), Swedish Media Council, the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg. with support of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education.
Funding: Nordic Council of Ministers.
Read more:
Information overload. New project on media and information literacy - Danish Cultural Institute

Human Rights Challenges

According to the 2018 Universal Periodic Review from the United Nations, the human rights challenges in Russia relates to, among others:

Discrimination and hate speech on the grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender identity;
Enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, attacks and threats perpetrated by civilians or the military;
Right to fair trial, access to remedy and justice;
Freedom of opinion and expression, especially journalists, human rights defenders and political activists;
Freedom of religion or belief;
Right to association and assembly;
Access to social security and health to persons living in remote areas;
Violence against women, especially sexual violence and patriarchal attitudes and stereotypes;
Equal pay, work opportunities, and political participation for women;
Violence and ill-treatment of children in pre-trial detentions;
Protection, support and inclusion of indigenous people;
High rate of unregistered persons, especially stateless, refugees and individual from minority groups.