A report compiled by the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) This social media health report construes the monitoring conducted in the days between the 15th of February 2021 through the 15th of March 2021. The Health Report is aimed at assessing the key issues on social media, the overall dynamics of hate […]
Women have perfected the art of challenging societal norms, a lot of times it looks like women are always fighting for/advocating for something. Since #defyhatenow has been in Cameroon we have met women who have been working towards a better Cameroon. This is the first article in our “Women4Peace” series. We will be celebrating women […]
Women’s voices are always loud in advocating for gender equity, on this #InternationalWomensDay join us and create opportunities that help the women in your life become their best, be it at work, at school or at home. We seem to love this quote by G.D Anderson a little too much so we will repeat it, […]
By: Fogha Mc Cornilius Hate Speech is as difficult to define as it is to regulate. There is no international consensus on what is considered hate speech and what isn’t. The difficulty with regulating hate speech is that it sometimes infringes on the freedom of speech, which is a right defended by international law. In […]
A report compiled by the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) This social media health report construes the monitoring conducted in the working days between the 15th of January 2021 through the 15thof February 2021. The Health Report is aimed at assessing mainly the key issues on social media, the overall dynamics of […]
By Dr. adem kassie abebe (ll.d) Background In March 2020, the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives adopted the controversial Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation No 1185/2020. The law emerged in the backdrop of a string of deadly inter-ethnic clashes across the country, which the government was quick to link to viral speech […]
A report compiled by the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) Introduction This social media health report construes the monitoring conducted in the working days between the 15th of December 2020 through the 15th of January 2021. The Health Report is aimed at mainly assessing the key issues/grievances on social media, the overall […]
By Garang Abraham As mainstream media struggles to strengthen its social media engagement online, the alternative media has already captured the interplanetary with most of its unverified and unchecked content widely consumed by the users. According to South Sudanese, not all the content shared by alternative media carries positive information but some content contains numerous […]
Osla Haustine Ngah is a Leadership and community manager who equally has an HND in banking and finance. She is passionate about communication and has gone through a number of communication and journalism trainings in institutions such as CRTV, and IL EST ECRIT radio. She has also worked as a Broadcaster in a number of […]
A report compiled by CARD Introduction This social media health report construes the monitoring conducted in the working days between the 15th of November through the 15th of December 2020. The monitoring of this month includes the overall assessment of social media activities through the platform of Crowd tangle and Brandwatch. A twitter campaign with […]
For over four years now since the Anglophone crisis broke out degenerating into an armed conflict, it appears not only do the actors engage in gun battles, but also creating an environment of animosity, the hates and intolerance. This some manifest in words like “Le Bamenda, ngrafffi, Anglofool, Ambazonie, Cam-no-go, La Republic, nkumkumize, blacklegs, terrorists” […]
On November 10th, 2020 #defyhatenow reached yet another milestone: the launch of the Cameroun Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide. The Field Guide is the second one already produced by #defyhatenow, following the South Sudan Field Guide, and is the first to be available is both English and French, the two official languages of Cameroon. Since […]