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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
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