A/69/334 enforcement officers on international human rights treaties. The Government also cooperates with civil society to promote human rights. 48. The King Abdulaziz Centre for National Dialogue organizes meetings to condemn, inter alia, acts of intolerance, hatred and discrimination in all forms. The Centre signed an agreement with the Ministry of Islamic Affairs to train 40,000 mosque imams on how to disseminate a culture of tolerance i n society through sermons and talks. 49. The Government places legal restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, in keeping with relevant international standards, in order to safeguard other rights. For instance, the Anti-Cyber Crime Law makes it an offence to use information technology to harm others and the Printing and Publications Act criminalizes defaming or insulting another person. K. Serbia 50. The Government referred to its strategy for prevention and protection against discrimination for the period 2013-2018, which had been adopted to set the policy for combating discrimination in order to improve the status of all vulnerable social groups. 51. In October 2013, the National Assembly ratified two international conventions that have become an integral part of the national legal system of Serbia, namely, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence and the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption. 52. The Government informed that education courses, seminars, workshops, round tables and conferences have been organized for holders of judicial offices (judges, public prosecutors and police officers) in order to improve their knowledge a nd understanding of discrimination and anti-discrimination legislation. 53. The competent prosecutor’s offices initiated criminal charges, including for instigating national, racial or religious hatred or intolerance, injury to reputation due to racial, religion, ethnic or other affiliation, and ruining the reputation of a foreign State or international organization. Those charges were brought against 159 persons, mostly for inciting national, racial and religious hatred and intolerance. 54. The Government adopted a national strategy for combating violence and misbehaviour at sporting events for the period 2013 -2018, a strategic document that sets out the basic principles and security policy for combating violence and misbehaviour at sporting events within the action plan for the implementation of the strategy. 55. In February 2013, the Ministry of Youth and Sport established the National Committee for the implementation of the campaign for combating hate speech online. The aim of the Committee is to reduce violence on the Internet, create a safer Internet environment and raise the awareness of young people on the issues related to the abuse of the Internet, discrimination and hate speech on social networks and their consequences, especially bearing in mind th e increasing number of cases of online violence among young people. The work of the Committee has been presented by the Council of Europe as an example of good practice for the 10/17 14-59563

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