{"id":15785,"date":"2024-03-12T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15785"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:35:54","slug":"finland-launching-anti-racism-campaign-amid-series-of-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/finland-launching-anti-racism-campaign-amid-series-of-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland launching anti-racism campaign amid series of scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Finnish government will launch an anti-racism campaign after a series of last summer&#8217;s far-right and racism scandals threatened to topple the governing coalition, local media reported Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe campaign is set to launch between May and June 2024, according to newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Petteri Orpo government\u2019s anti-racism campaign aims to challenge and encourage different parts of society to take action to promote equality and combat racism in Finnish society.<br \/>\nLast Summer, Finland&#8217;s government faced accusations of racism after the online postings and articles by ministers from the Finns Party, a far-right member of the coalition, were considered racist.<br \/>\nAs a result, the government initially agreed on a policy last June to combat intolerance in the hope of preventing the collapse of the four-party, right-wing coalition consisting of the conservative National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats, Swedish People\u2019s Party, and the controversial far-right Finns Party.<br \/>\nThe Finns Party \u201cwill not change who they are, they will not change what their party is,\u201d Andersson told Anadolu last September.<br \/>\nIn a 2019 report, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the Council of Europe\u2019s independent rights watchdog warned that \u201cracist and intolerant hate speech in public discourse is escalating\u201d in Finland.<br \/>\nIt said: \u201cThe main targets are asylum seekers and Muslims.\u201d<br \/>\nThe authors of the report warned that racist and abusive language is \u201ccommonplace\u201d online among Finnish youth, while also pointing out a rise in its use in political discourse.<br \/>\nIt also said the response by Finnish authorities to incidents of racism \u201ccannot be considered fully adequate.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights\u2019 2018 report, discrimination against the Black community is the most common in Finland, out of the 12 member states studied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 The Finnish government will launch an anti-racism campaign after a series of last summer&#8217;s far-right and racism scandals threatened to topple the governing coalition, local media reported Tuesday. The campaign is set to launch between May and June 2024, according to newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo government\u2019s anti-racism campaign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15787,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15785\/revisions\/15787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}