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United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
New York | 2019 | 5 p.
Corporate author: 
United Nations
Region: 
Global

In response to current alarming trends of growing xenophobia, racism and intolerance, violent misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred around the world, on 18 June, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech. The strategy recognizes that over the past 75 years, hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide, from Rwanda to Bosnia to Cambodia.
The Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech sets out strategic guidance for the United Nations system to address hate speech at the national and global level. It also includes ways the United Nations Secretariat can support the work of the United Nations Resident Coordinators in addressing and countering hate speech.
Its objectives are twofold: first, to enhance United Nations efforts to address root causes and drivers of hate speech; and second, to enable effective United Nations responses to the impact of hate speech on societies.

 

Resource Type: 
International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documents
Theme: 
Human rights
Preventing violent extremism / genocide
Peace / Culture of peace
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Diversity / cultural literacy / inclusive
Level of education: 
Other
Keywords: 
Peace building
Racism
Intolerance
Ethnic discrimination
hate speech