“Communicating on racism and racial discrimination”
2009
Held at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
The aim of this seminar was to help national specialised bodies to further develop their strategies for communication and partnership building in order to enhance the impact of their action. To this end, issues that will be explored in more depth include how to reach the main stakeholders, how to identify their needs and how to develop and use different communication tools.
Participants
This seminar brought together representatives of specialised bodies to combat racism and racial discrimination and representatives of general human rights institutions (Ombudsmen, Human Rights Commissioners, etc.).
All attendees are invited to participate actively in discussions by commenting on presentations and providing examples from their own work environment.
Tim Williams spoke in a special session at this seminar dedicated to discussing how to place diversity and issues related to racism and racial discrimination in the media. National specialised bodies sometimes experience difficulties in getting their message across and convincing the media to pay attention to these issues.. The session reviewed the websites and communication strategies of several European ombud on racism and suggest new approaches. The session was entitled: How to place diversity and issues related to racism and racial discrimination in the media.
Link: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/activities/32-communicating_2009/NSBR2009_programme_en.asp