A/HRC/59/63 Costa Rica 16. Costa Rica provided a copy of its National Strategy to Prevent and Address Hate Speech and Discrimination, launched in March 2024. Costa Rica reported that the strategy was led by the Government of Costa Rica, with technical support from the United Nations. Costa Rica reported that it was the first country in the region with a national strategy to prevent and address hate speech and discrimination. 17. Costa Rica reported that by 2023, hate speech on social networks in Costa Rica had increased by 50 per cent compared to 2022, and by 255 per cent compared to 2021. Costa Rica reported that its National Strategy was aimed at providing tools for prevention, attention and action to guide the State and its institutions, with the objective of generating peace, equality and inclusion. The National Strategy is based on five areas: recognizing, respecting and guaranteeing human rights; education; a culture of peace; access to research, and the effective use of data; and access to justice and accountability. Cuba 18. Cuba provided information about the constitutional, legislative and policy measures it had taken to ensure the right to non-discrimination. Cuba reported that there were no recorded demonstrations or activities by racist or xenophobic movements or ideologies or extremist or neo-Nazi groups, and that Cuba had adopted laws and policies to combat any remaining signs of racism, racial prejudice and racial discrimination. The National Programme Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (Color Cubano) reportedly monitors actions in order to combat and eliminate the vestiges of racism, racial prejudice and racial discrimination that persist in Cuba. 19. Cuba reported a disturbing wave of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia at the international level, which it said had created an environment conducive to the spread of ideologies such as Nazism and neo-Nazism, promoted through social networks and other forms of communication. Cuba reported that some political parties and leaders in developed countries had spread hate speech that blamed the ills of society on migrants and other minorities, and that this further exposed the unjust international order which for decades had made the poor, people of African descent and migrants the object of discrimination. Guatemala 20. Guatemala reported a global resurgence in hatred and exclusion, which included the use of far-reaching technology to polarize society; disinformation about minorities; the spread of nationalism, populism and cross-border hate speech exploiting crises or social discontent; and the growth of extremist groups. Such groups were reportedly expanding targets of violence to include women, LGBTQ+ persons, religious minorities and migrants. Guatemala also reported foreign-funded State actors spreading hate, ongoing conservatism that enables extremism, criticisms of the inclusion of minority groups in workplaces, and environmental racism. 21. Guatemala reported that discrimination, intolerance and racist and xenophobic violence was rooted in historical exclusion of Indigenous Peoples. Guatemala reported that the dissemination of hate messages through social networks exacerbated these problems, and that migration generated xenophobic attitudes towards people of other nationalities, particularly Central American migrants. Online platforms had reportedly been used in recent years to distort cultural expressions of Indigenous Peoples, including traditional health systems. 22. Guatemala outlined its laws and measures to prevent and combat discrimination. Lebanon 23. Lebanon reported that its general legal framework criminalized all forms of racism, violence and discrimination against any group on Lebanese territory, whether national or foreign, in accordance with the principle of equality stipulated in its Constitution, which reportedly ensured non-discrimination among all individuals residing in Lebanon, regardless of citizenship status. Lebanon reported that Lebanese society was based on openness, 4 GE.25-07709