On 29 June, the Council of Europe kicked off its new Europe-wide campaign against discrimination in Madrid. The City of Madrid supported the campaign by providing advertising space to it for one week.
The slogan is “Speak out against discrimination” and the campaign addresses the public at large. It promotes awareness and condemnation of discrimination, particularly ethnic or racial discrimination.
The aims of the campaign are:
To raise public awareness about discrimination,
To provide the media with information about intercultural affairs and anti-discrimination mechanisms and inspire them to disseminate such information,
To prepare journalists to work in a multicultural Europe and support good practice in intercultural reporting and issues concerning discrimination,
To make the diversity of European society more visible, for example, by supporting the access of minorities to the media as a profession.
The campaign has already started in Barcelona, Paris, Milan and Rome and will continue all over Europe for one year. It is supported by Lilian Thuram, a retired football player who once played for the French national team and FC Barcelona and is currently president of the Lilian Thuram Foundation – Education against Racism.
In addition to a poster campaign, various other events are planned for 2009. There will be television ads, seminars for journalists, a summer school, training materials for journalists and a manual on good practices for simplifying minority access to the media.
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