A/HRC/50/61 NGO Monitor 59. NGO Monitor provided information about trends in antisemitism, including alleged examples of antisemitism within non-governmental organizations working on human rights and humanitarian issues, weak accountability for antisemitism and increasing violence against Jewish individuals over the past decade. 60. The organization provided examples of Governments that had put into place measures to address antisemitism, including guidelines for public funding and legislation. For example, they described how in in June 2017, the Federal Assembly of Switzerland adopted a resolution to amend the laws, ordinances and regulations so that Switzerland could no longer subsidize, even indirectly, development cooperation projects carried out by nongovernmental organizations involved in racism or incitement. NGO Monitor also reported that, according to the 2018 work plan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, contracts signed between the Ministry and civil society organizations included funding guidelines that ensured the Netherlands did not finance organizations that promoted hate speech, racism or antisemitism of any sort or in any format. Southern Poverty Law Center 61. The Southern Poverty Law Center provided information about the number of hate and extremist groups in the United States of America. It reported that in 2021, a total of 733 such groups were tracked by the organization, with general hate groups and white nationalist organizations being the most numerous. According to the information provided, the number of hate groups had decreased for the third year in a row from a historic high in 2018, but the change was due to the larger size and improved organization of the groups and their increased integration into mainstream politics, including within the Republican Party. 62. The Center provided information about linkages between the growth of the reactionary right-wing movement in 2021 and the powerful racial justice movement that mobilized in 2020. It pointed out that the movement had achieved widespread resonance and forced reckonings with the realities of anti-Black racism in the United States, but that it had sparked fear in the far right and had sustained counter-efforts to maintain and strengthen white supremacy. Parallels between this backlash against racial justice movements in 2020 and in other periods in history, including the reconstruction period and the civil rights era, were drawn by the organization. 63. The Center pointed out that extremist groups had been attracting more attention from law enforcement agencies and that civil lawsuits had been brought against such organizations, including the case of Sines v. Kessler, 1 a successful civil suit against the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Despite such constraining forces, the Center noted that extremist groups were gaining influence in mainstream politics, including through social media. The organization described trends in the use of social media amongst hate groups. The poor moderation of content on mainstream social media sites and their unwillingness to remove extremist content and individuals were noted. The organization also described the increasing use of alternative technology platforms. Additional input from civil society 64. Another civil society organization provided information about trends and manifestations of neo-Nazi far right movements in a number of countries in Europe. The organization described participation in the Lukov March by members of the Bulgarian National Union in Bulgaria., which takes place on an annual basis in Sofia. The organization reported the use of the swastika emblem during the march, and pointed out that the Bulgarian National Union is an organization with a paramilitary structure, whose members use military operations in their public actions. The organization indicated that there had been strong parliamentary condemnation of the Lukov March but that repeated difficulties were encountered in banning the event. 1 United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Charlottesville Division, Elizabeth Sines, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Jason Kessler, et al., Defendants, Civil Action 3:17-cv-00072, 22 September 2021. 11