Moscow NGOs Respond with Coalition Against Hate

In a conference of 75-to-80 human rights NGOs and their leaders in Moscow to discuss the negative rule of law implications of religious discrimination and "Hate Speech, Xenophobia and Antisemitism in Russia, Century 21," the discussion became further animated because, coincidentally, it came a day after Vladimir Putin's rant against America at the Munich international security conference.

The meeting was called in part to continue NGO planning to organize the first-ever bi-lingual, interactive human rights blog for Russia (and, soon, Ukraine and Belarus): Coalitionagainsthate.org, and an international NGO human rights monitoring coalition of the same name (Coalition Against Hate).

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