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Hate speech is on the rise worldwide, with the potential to incite violence, undermine social cohesion and tolerance, and cause psychological, emotional and physical harm based on xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, anti-Muslim hatred and other forms of intolerance and discrimination (UN, 2020). History has shown us that genocide and other atrocity crimes begin with words – there is a collective responsibility to address hate speech in the present day to prevent further violence in the future.

As part of the implementation of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate speech, UNESCO and the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG) will convene the “Global Education Ministers Conference on addressing hate speech through education” due to take place on 26 October 2021. The Ministers Conference will be informed by the “Global Multi-stakeholder Forum on addressing hate speech through education” on 30 September and 1 October 2021.

The one-day, high-level online Conference, in the presence of Heads of State and Government, Ministers of Education, the United Nations Secretary-General and UNESCO Director-General, will seek to endorse global commitments to address hate speech, both on- and offline, through education.

For further questions or information, please contact the Secretariat team in UNESCO’s Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education at gced@unesco.org.

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https://events.unesco.org/event?id=2689680899&lang=1033