Key international human rights instruments

International human rights law

• Charter of the United Nations, 1945
• Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), 1948
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (or Genocide Convention), 1948
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), 1965
• Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination general recommendation n°35 on combatting racist hate speech, September 2013
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 1966
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 1979
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Further international instruments on hate speech

• Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, 2012
• Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes, 2014
• Plan of Action for religious leaders and actors, 2017
• United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, 2019
• Guidance note on addressing and countering Covid-19 related hate speech, 2020
• Strategy and Plan of action on hate speech: detailed guidance on implementation for UN field presences , 2020
• Engaging Religious Actors to counter hate speech, prevent incitement to violence, and build peaceful and inclusive societies, 2021
• UN guidance note on gender based hate speech

UNnited Against Hate Speech: Tools to combat hate, podcast

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According to leading international human rights organization Minority Rights Group (MRG), there was a 400-fold increase in the use of hate terms online in Pakistan between 2011 and 2021.

In this episode of UNiting Against Hate, Katy Dartford speaks to activists from MRG, and two partner organizations: Pakistan-based think tank Bytes for All, and Iraq-based Kirkuk Now.

They’ve all worked together on a “toolkit” designed to help improve the reporting of hate speech, and provide advice on how to work with young people or the media to generate positive speech to counter online and offline hate.

Find out more about the UN's #NoToHate campaign here.

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