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10. The Institute also participated in educational activities mandated as part of
suspended sentences for offences related to discrimination. For example, between
2013 and 2014, some 15 persons attended tributes to a former Nazi official that
were held in a cemetery in Buenos Aires. The persons concerned were sentenced to
probation and were required to attend training provided by the Institute. The
training covered topics such as racism, discrimination, xenophobia and Nazism and
was aimed at raising awareness about the grave nature of neo-Nazi acts and the
importance of human rights.
11. The Institute also conducted campaigns against racism. In 2011, it created the
“Intercultural Area”, which covered the issue of discrimination and racism directed
towards minority groups. The Intercultural Area aimed to combat racist practices
through awareness-raising and visualization. As part of this campaign, the Institute
also published a booklet entitled “Racism: towards an intercultural Argentina ”,
which included a section on the Holocaust as an example of institutionalized racism.
12. The Institute ran two observatory bodies that mo nitor discrimination: the
Observatory of Discrimination in Football and the Observatory of Discrimination in
Radio and Television. Among their many other roles, these bodies analysed actions,
content and commentaries in their respective areas and created a space for the actors
to participate and reflect upon issues. The Institute also created a monitoring
mechanism for hate speech on the Internet which, with regard to anti -Semitism,
collaborated with the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations, the Arge ntine
Jewish Mutual Aid Society and the Latin American Jewish Congress.
13. The Institute also cooperated with civil society and other international and
regional human rights mechanisms to fight racism, discrimination, xenophobia and
other forms of intolerance. For example, in 2010, the executive branch declared
27 January to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day (decree No. 157/2010).
The decree was promulgated as part of Argentina’s commitment as the first and only
Latin American member of the International Task Force for Cooperation on
Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. Finally, the Institute also
participated in the Latin American Network against Discrimination, of which it was
elected Chair in August 2014 and which has allowed it to share Argentina’s
experience with discrimination and give that experience a wider institutional reach.
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14. The Government reported that it had taken steps to combat and eliminate all
forms of ideological extremism and racial intolerance by, inter alia, introducing
human rights syllabuses in local universities and promulgating a code of ethics for
journalists to ensure that they do not condone propaganda that is of a racist nature,
express contempt or hatred for religions or incite discrimination or denigration of
the views of a social community.
15. The Government had drawn up a code of ethics which required re ligious
leaders in Bahrain to exercise moderation in their sermons, promote the values of
coexistence and brotherliness and refrain from making politically inflammatory
statements or inciting hatred or discrimination against others on the grounds of their
racial, doctrinal or other affiliations.
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