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United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech: Detailed Guidance on Implementation for United Nations Field Presences
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
New York | 2020 | 52 p.
Corporate author: 
UN
Region: 
Global

The Strategy and Plan of Action acknowledges that hate speech has the potential to incite violence and undermine social unity. It recognizes that hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide, over the past 75 years.

 

This approach to coordinating efforts across the UN system to identify, prevent and confront hate speech is grounded in international human rights standards, including the right to freedom of opinion and expression, principles of equality and non-discrimination, as well as other fundamental rights.

 

The Strategy aims to give the United Nations the room and the resources to address hate speech, which poses a threat to UN principles, values and programmes. It guides the UN system on how to address hate speech and includes ways to support United Nations Resident Coordinators’ action in addressing and countering hate speech on the ground.

Files: 
Resource Type: 
International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documents
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Human rights
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Peace / Culture of peace
Preventing violent extremism / genocide
Level of education: 
Other
Keywords: 
violence
hate speech