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Code of Conduct: One Year On
One year ago, the European Commission and four major social media platforms announced a Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech. It included a series of commitments by Facebook,...
International EHRI workshop on online access to Holocaust-related documentation
From 6 to 8 June 2017, the international workshop 'Online Access of Holocaust Documents: Ethical and Practical Challenges' organized by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the...
IHRA in Geneva
From 26-29 June, 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance holds its first bi-annual Plenary Meeting under the Swiss Chairmanship in Geneva. Over four days almost 200 experts and...
European Parliament calls on countries to adopt working definition of antisemitism
On 1 June 2017 the European Parliament voted to adopt a resolution calling on member states and their institutions to adopt and apply the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working...
Chilean and Mexican organizations to strengthen Holocaust education
On June 8, 2017, Chile’s Interactive Jewish Museum and Nenemi Paxia- Sinergias Educativas A.C., in alliance with Mexico’s Museum of Memory and Tolerance and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México...
Identity needs remembrance – dialogue platform on the Roma genocide
2 June, 2017, Vienna - In the context of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and the Austrian Federal Chancellery organized a dialogue...
New York Students Learn about Holocaust through the story of Lisa Jura
On Wednesday 26 April 2017, more than 450 middle and high school students and their teachers attended a multimedia presentation titled “The Children of Willesden Lane” at United Nations New York...
Head of Canadian IHRA Delegation partcipates in Winnipeg Megillat Hashoah service
On 23 April Ambassador Artur Wilczynski, Head of Canada's Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, participated in a Megillat Hashoah (The Shoah Scroll) service in Winnipeg. Am...
“50 Years of Roma Genocide Research”
From 25 – 27 May, 2017, an International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Expert Meeting entitled “50 Years of Roma Genocide Research” was organized by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian...
Romania Adopts Working Definition of Antisemitism
According to a Memorandum approved by the Romanian Government on the 25 May, Romania has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism which was...