FIDU - Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani

The Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU) operates worldwide with the mission to protect human rights, the rule of law and the victims of abuses. FIDU’s work mostly focuses on initiatives like advocacy and awareness campaigns, fact-finding missions, monitoring activities, especially related to elections and trials, and reporting of abuses. To conduct this work, FIDU relies on its wide international network, composed of CSOs, universities, media workers, lawyers, and experts with whom FIDU supports the reform of traditional mechanisms in order to make them more effective in protecting human rights and to promote new tools aimed to fight against impunity and to protect the victims of abuses, including those targeted by transnational repression. In this context, FIDU recognises disinformation as a major threat to human rights and the rule of law, which often targets the victims of abuses and those who work to protect them.

FIDU’s work to counter disinformation includes raising awareness on the disinformation phenomenon and its impact on our information ecosystem and the consequence on free media, academia, democratic processes, and civil society, as well as analysis and monitoring of narratives coming from authoritarian countries.