A/HRC/50/61 hatred and violence on the grounds of belonging to a national, ethnic, religious or linguistic group were all prohibited. 16. Specific laws referenced by the Government included the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus, No. 575 of 09 November 2010, on approval of the concept of national security of Belarus; the Law on countering extremism; the Law on preventing the rehabilitation of Nazism; and the Law on the genocide of the Belarusian people. 17. A number of the laws laid out measures to prevent Nazism and discrimination, according to information provided by the Government. In addition, Belarus declared 2022 as the Year of Historical Memory in order to promote political, social and cultural tolerance and to prevent the recurrence of acts of Nazism, extremism and any form of discriminatory practice. Honduras 18. Honduras provided information about a number of legislative measures to prevent and combat incitement to hatred and violence based on racial superiority aimed at persons or groups belonging to national, ethnic, religious and/or linguistic minorities. The measures included constitutional provisions to ensure the right to equality and the prohibition of discrimination, as well as provisions in the Criminal Code of 2020 that criminalize both discrimination and incitement to discrimination. The Government also described the public policy against racism and racial discrimination for the integral development of indigenous and Afro-Honduran people, adopted in 2016, and the public police and national action plan on human rights, which includes actions against discrimination. 19. According to the information provided, the Directorate for Education and Culture of Peace provides training for public servants that offers them an opportunity to reflect on their personal and professional responsibilities to address discrimination. Also according to the information provided, the training activities emphasize the importance of adopting behaviours aimed at preventing hate speech. In addition, the Government provided information about the inclusion in the Criminal Code of crimes relating to discrimination, allowing for more cases to be brought before the national courts, and about the need for relevant training among judicial officers. 20. The Government reported that 77 cases of discrimination had been registered, with cases against individuals of African descent being the most frequent. A significant proportion of registered cases were those in which the accused perpetrator was a public official. According to the information provided, of the 77 cases received, 10 were referred to the judiciary, 6 were dismissed, 1 is under analysis for administrative archiving purposes and the rest were in the process of investigation or stalled due to a lack of evidence. 21. Honduras also detailed measures taken to promote political, social and cultural tolerance and to prevent the promotion of hate speech and/or incitement to violence. Those measures included agreements with civil society organizations to promote the implementation of national and international human rights recommendations and build the capacity of rights holders and duty bearers; curricula on the prevention of discrimination within human rights education, which has focused on virtual education since the onset of the pandemic; and academic studies to better understand discrimination and related phenomena within the country. According to the information provided, human rights education activities to prevent discrimination have reached 11,075 public servants and 42,236 law enforcement officials. Activities included a virtual conference on the elimination of racial discrimination, as part of the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Hungary 22. Hungary described a variety of legislative measures to prevent and combat Nazism, discrimination, intolerance, and racist and xenophobic violence. They included the criminalization of violence against a community or inciting such violence and public denial of the crimes of National Socialism or Communism. The information provided also described legal measures to increase the penalties for hate speech and placing insulting symbols; the Fundamental Law of 2011, which recognized the Hungarian Jewish community as an integral 5

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