The conference Words are deeds - speech is action is a part of an international project called Let's face the discrimination. The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia is carrying it out in cooperation with Ludwig Boltzmann Institute form Austria. The conference Words are deeds - speech is action  (discriminatory and hate speech) is going to take place on Wednesday, 27. 9., on the Faculty of Social Science in Slovenian's capital Ljubljana.

Target groups are experts of different fields of society who are dealing with or shaping a public discourse (journalists, politicians, professors, PR departments') and all interested in the hate speech.
In every day's life it is important to step into discriminated person's shoes for better understanding of discrimination based on the speech, Slovenian human Rights Ombudsman Mr. Hanžek emphasized among the other on the public presentation of the conference on Monday, 18. 9. Founder and head of leading anti-discrimination NGOs in Austria ZARA Dieter Schindlauer stressed, that methodology of a conference is mainly based on a connection with participants not on a frontal transfer of information to them.
We won't stand in front of you telling: "You should be nice to all the minorities, talk nicely about everybody, love each other, thank you for coming", Dieter Schindlauer said. The conference will try to give the participants the opportunity get into shoes of the discriminated person. 
"We will try to show how it feels to be addressed in discriminatory way, in the way to makes you feel inferior to the others", Schindlauer added. One of the aims of the conference is to go into the details of the effect that speech has - especially the public speech. Experts from Slovenia and Austria and participants will address the subtle form of hate speech which is not often addressed but has a lot to do with prejudices and stereotypes.
The conference won't give a censorship scissors in a sense what is allowed to say and what not, but will try to emphasize that words should be accountable, that no one will be in the position to said: "I just talk about it!", but be aware of the effects of his words. 
The conference will also try to answer why we don't see some parts of society in the media and how is the media dealing with some open or more hidden forms of hate speech.