
Cultivating fundamental rights & preventing offending behaviours
We promote innovative, community-based initiatives aimed at promoting fundamental rights and preventing and contrasting offending and criminal behaviors both online and offline, including hate speech and radicalization, through the envisioning and encouragement of alternative narratives.
What?
We strongly believe in working on a multilevel approach:

Raising awareness
for both victims,perpetrators and the general public.

Building the capacity of people
including practitioners and professionals, young people, perpetrators and online users.. .

Building networks
Consolidating and building collaboration networks.
How?
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Multi-stakeholder approach
We bring together multiple actors and through alternative narratives we create broad coalitions in favour of fundamental rights and against radicalization, hate speech and other offending and criminal behaviors. We encourage public administrations, private actors, civil society organizations, citizens and schools to collectively contrast offending behaviors. For instance, we make collective efforts to bring human rights in line with the online as active members of the INACH network - International Network Against Cyber Hate.
Multi-level approach
We firmly believe in the need to work on multiple levels by building societies respectful of fundamental rights based on comprehensive data collection and analysis, awareness raising and advocacy actions and by promoting education for the fight against offending and criminal behaviors.
Community-based approach
We put communities and people at the center of transformation processes. Promoting civic engagement, participation and co-creative approaches is vital to ensure tailored responses. . Creating alliances within the civil society is also vital to change dominating narratives and oppressing cultures at their roots.
Non-formal education
We also employ non-formal education methodologies and approaches such as gaming, arts and creativity to encourage people’s engagement and foster personal and collective growth through critical thinking.
Events
News
BOTTOM-UP TALKS – Call for “External Evaluator”
The BOTTOM-UP TALKS – Preventing teen-dating and school-related gender-based violence and promoting psychological well-being from the bottom-up responds to the difficulty for young people to access Comprehensive Sexuality Education programmes (CSE) and to access...
Join the MEDUSA Summer School: travel with us to Ljubljana (Slovenia) to face online gender-based violence!
Are you between 18 and 29 years old and eager to explore the challenges of online gender-based violence and discrimination? Do you want to gain the knowledge and skills to create safer, more inclusive digital spaces? MEDUSA welcomes you to the International Summer...
Empowering future generations: The imperative of Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Sexuality education is more than just a curriculum – it is a fundamental human right, a crucial tool for building a society where young people can grow up informed, empowered, and safe. Yet, despite growing evidence of its benefits, Comprehensive Sexuality Education...
Interactive resources and content
@NCLUSION – Needs for change in attitudes and processes for LGBTQI+ migrants & refugees
The intersection of LGBTQI+ identity and migration presents a number of complex challenges that are often overlooked in general discussions of asylum policies and integration strategies.
GUIDE – National map of services providers for guardians
These national maps identify and categorise service providers and specialists operating in the health, education, social support, and mental health sectors to provide a holistic view of available supports for guardians and unaccompanied children.
CHASE – Needs analysis report for online media
This research analyzed patterns of online hate speech based on gender and gender identity. The study assessed the needs of online media, identified beneficial practices already in place, and proposed strategies to improve the detection and management of hate speech comments.
Do you want to be part of this process?
Consult the available resources, find out about current initiatives, or write to us for more information: