Human Rights in the Era of Fake News
By Mariam Chanishvili
Monday, February 4
“Human Rights in the Era of Fake News” is a panel discussion organized by Human Rights Chair at Ilia State University in cooperation with international human rights NGO Truth Hounds and Tbilisi Shelter City Program, which discusses main challenges of human rights defenders in the battle with fake news.
"Fake news" was not a term many people used four years ago, but it is now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy and free debate.
The event, which focuses on Georgian, Ukrainian, Russian and Dutch contexts and the concerns human rights defenders have to address in these countries, will take place on February 5 at 5 pm at Book House Ligamus.
Working languages are Georgian /English/Russian.
The event is organized in cooperation with Tbilisi Shelter City.
The panel discussion will focus on Georgian-Ukrainian-Russian-Dutch context, difficulties human rights defenders face in those countries on daily basis during their work and effect of “Fake News” on it.
Speakers of the panel discussion include Sebastian Van Der Zwaan, Director of NGO Justice & Peace (Netherlands), Maria Kvitsinskaia – Analyst of Social Organization Crimea SOS (Ukraine), Sergey Fedulov – Journalist, Human Rights House Voronezh (Russia) and Svitlana Valko – Executive Director of NGO Truth Hounds (Ukraine/Georgia).
Attendance to the event is free of charge.
The project - Human Rights Chair at Ilia State University - aims to promote teaching and research in the area of human rights at the university level by raising academic awareness of pressing human rights issues, developing and delivering a model human rights course for the Master’s level students, sharing the course materials with other Georgian law schools, and establishing a live-client Human Rights Clinic at Ilia State University.
