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elucidates the importance of human rights education, especially among children and young
people, in the prevention and eradication of all forms of intolerance and discrimination.
V. Conclusions and recommendations
80.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that Member States:
(a)
Adopt comprehensive measures to combat racist hate speech and
xenophobic political discourse, while upholding freedom of expression, in line with the
recommendations of the United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular the
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination general recommendation No.
35 (2013) on combating racist hate speech, relevant provisions of the Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights and the Rabat Plan of Action;
(b)
Include targeted steps to prevent and address the proliferation of online
hate speech in such measures;
(c)
Ensure that comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, covering all
grounds for discrimination, is in place, in line with the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide
to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation;
(d)
Take all necessary steps to ensure the effective implementation and
monitoring of anti-discrimination legislation;
(e)
Take steps to ensure that all relevant acts relating to racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and all acts relating to the
glorification of Nazism are appropriately criminalized in national law, with sanctions
proportionate to the severity of the offences;
(f)
Ensure effective access to remedy, including the guarantee of nonrepetition of violation, to all victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance;
(g)
Adopt national action plans against racism and the resurgence of neoNazism and take all necessary steps to ensure their effective implementation;
(h)
Withdraw any applicable reservations to article 4 of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
(i)
Strengthen and expand efforts to employ education and public awareness
campaigns to combat racist stereotypes and promote diversity in order to prevent hate
crimes and hate speech, including by ensuring that such topics are included within
curricula at all stages of education;
(j)
Invest in strengthened capacity to collect and disseminate disaggregated
data on all forms of hate crime and hate speech that promote racist and neo-Nazi
ideologies to develop a full understanding of the scope of the problem and to enable the
design and implementation of effective laws and policies;
(k)
Take all necessary and appropriate measures to implement the Durban
Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome document of the Durban
Review Conference.
81.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that other stakeholders, including civil
society organizations:
(a)
Continue to facilitate enhanced collaboration among representatives of
different racial, ethnic and religious communities to combat all forms of intolerance
and discrimination;
(b)
Contribute to the collection and dissemination of disaggregated data on
hate crime and hate speech that promote racist and neo-Nazi ideologies to develop a full
understanding of the scope of the problem and to enable the design and implementation
of relevant laws and policies;
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