A RED CARD TO ANTISEMITISM - Agenfor International

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Soccer, stadiums and hooligans in the Italian context

Soccer, and sports in general, are a great instrument for creating social cohesion and for community making, but stadiums have often been used for the expression of violence and hatred towards minority groups such as LGBTQIA+ people, Roma, people of colour, and Jews. Many ultras groups and/or their member, as the hooligan groups are known in Italian, are known to have connections with right-wing extremist groups and organized crime, and violence in or around the stadium is not rare.

A red card to antisemitism – Soccer, stadiums and hooligans in the Italian context is the eight report drafted by Murilo Cambruzzi of the CDEC Foundation’s Observatory on Antisemitism for the STAND-UP pilot phase (Grant Agreement no. 101049532).

The present report is a result of a mix of resources, both the manual monitoring conducted by the Observatory on Antisemitism and the use of the OSINT software. We will discuss the issue of antisemitism in soccer as a whole, both online and offline.

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Murilo Cambruzzi

Katerina Charokopou is a PhD Legal Officer in the Greek National Commission for Human Rights, specialized in public international law and human rights. Before joining the GNCHR she has served as Rapporteur in the Ministry for Migration Policy. She has over 20 years’ experience in representing Greece in and collaborating with international, regional Organisations (Council of Europe, UN, OSCE, OECD, ILO etc) and the EU via drafting of annual reports, completing surveys and country questionnaires and participating in Legal Working Groups, Working Parties and seminars. She is since June 2022, co-chair in the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) Economic, Social and Cultural Working Group. Her main professional interest is the protection of the human rights of vulnerable groups including women, children, migrants, disabled persons, Roma, LGBTIQ+ people with focus on the fight against racism, hate crime hate speech.