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The silhouette of a 15-year-old child on crutches. He lost his left leg after accidentally stepping on a landmine in a rice field.

UN rights council condemns Myanmar abuses, urges immediate action

Human Rights
… as well as civil society and religious leaders. Stop hate speech Also in the resolution, the HRC called on Myanmar to combat incitement to hatred and hate speech against Rohingya and other minorities, online and …
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Senegalese and Nigerian UNPOL Officers attend crowd control training along with Malian Police Officers at a police academy in Bamako, Mali.

Global leaders address security and peacekeeping challenges at UN Police summit

Peace and Security
… peace operations are also seeing growing challenges from hate speech, misinformation and disinformation, which are …
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People globally are at risk of immense harm due to misinformation and disinformation.

Algorithms should not control what people see, UN chief says, launching Global Principles for Information Integrity

UN Affairs
… the harms caused by misinformation, disinformation and hate speech. … UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined key … our world He emphasized that combating misinformation and hate speech is critical to safeguarding democracy, human …
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In this 2017 photograph, Rohingya refugees driven by brutal violence from their homes in Myanmar arrive in camps in Bangladesh.

Genocide prevention adviser warns of global threat posed by hate speech

Peace and Security
… top genocide prevention official warned on Friday that hate speech remains a significant threat to global peace and … of Genocide, emphasized that in addition to violence, hate speech also reinforces discrimination, stigma, …
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Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet and Nobel Laureate, reads an original poem written for children at the General Assembly's high-level meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2019. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate condemns online hate

Human Rights
… … While the world celebrates the  Day for Countering Hate Speech , we are looking back at how Nobel Laureate for …  Wole Soyinka, wielded powerful words to clobber online hate speech, call out religious extremism and refute the …
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Barbed wire around a camp for some 25,000 people displaced from Srebrenica. The fence was there to keep people from wandering into the surrounding fields that may have been mined. (1995 photo)

UN establishes International Day of reflection for Srebrenica genocide

Human Rights
… revisionism, denial of the Srebrenica genocide and hate speech by high-level political leaders in Bosnia and …
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Floodwaters in the historic centre of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

World News in Brief: Myanmar violence intensifies, praise for Brazil refugee response, Baháí detainees in Yemen

Human Rights
… – also known as the Houthis – were responsible. History of hate speech Other Baháí believers who have been released have … the rights experts maintained, before warning that hate speech against minorities, including by the Houthi Grand …
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UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are warning of the continued increase of refugee and migrant deaths at sea.

World News in Brief: UN supporting East Africa flood victims, dozens more migrant deaths at sea, disinformation in Myanmar

Humanitarian Aid
… over the spread of misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, especially in northern Rakhine State, home to …
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Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas in the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Security Council hears of progress in Bosnia despite ‘worrying’ trend of genocide denial

Peace and Security
… security agendas as well as community dialogue,” he said. Hate speech, genocide denial At the same time, in recent months, … about repeated threats of secessionism, the promotion of hate speech, the denial of genocide and the glorification of …
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Protesters demonstrate outside the Columbia University campus in New York City.

Gaza protests: UN rights chief flags ‘disproportionate’ police action on US campuses

Human Rights
… demonstration but at the same time it is obvious that hate speech is unacceptable ”, he said. It should be left up to … chief emphasised that any clearly anti-Semitic conduct and speech was totally unacceptable and deeply disturbing. …
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