A/HRC/53/62 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to General Assembly resolution 77/204, in which the Assembly requested the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to submit a report on the implementation of that resolution to the Council at its fifty-third session. 2. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur summarizes information received from Member States regarding the implementation of the aforementioned resolution. She thanks the Member States for their contributions. She also expresses her gratitude for the submissions from eight other stakeholders. 3. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur outlines the relevant principles and obligations of racial equality and non-discrimination in international human rights law and highlights their application in combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. As with previous reports of the mandate holder, the Special Rapporteur calls upon Member States to demonstrate the strong commitment needed to address the rise in hate crime and incitement to violence against ethnic, racial and religious minorities and groups around the world. She also reminds the Member States to consider the horrors of the Second World War and the references in resolution 77/204 to preventing future wars and saving future generations from the scourge of war. She calls upon States to redouble their efforts to counter all forms of ethnic, racial and religious hatred and to promote tolerance and understanding within and among countries. II. Submissions by Member States 4. In the present section, the Special Rapporteur summarizes information submitted by Member States on existing laws and policies to counter Nazism and neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. However, she does not analyse or evaluate those laws or policies. She emphasizes that providing a summary of a Member State submission does not constitute an endorsement of its content. The legal and policy frameworks referred to may have been assessed within the United Nations human rights system as being incompatible with international human rights law. 5. The present section contains summaries of the submissions of Member States. The full submissions and the supporting information provided are available on the website of the Special Rapporteur.1 Armenia 6. According to the information provided, the Criminal Code of Armenia establishes liability for public speech instigating or propagating hatred, discrimination, intolerance or hostility towards a person or group of persons on the basis of racial, national, ethnic or social origin, religion, political or other views or other personal and social circumstances and for disseminating materials or objects for that purpose. The Criminal Code also criminalizes propaganda about or public denial, justification or de-emphasis of the danger of genocide or crimes against humanity on the basis of racial background, skin colour, national or ethnic origin or religious background for the purpose of provoking hatred, discrimination or violence against a person or a group of persons. 7. Armenia reported that a specialized subdivision of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducts monitoring activities to detect the dissemination of racist or xenophobic materials over the Internet. According to the information provided, the following number of criminal cases were instituted under article 226.2 of the previous Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia (“Public calls for using violence, publicly justifying or 1 2 https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-racism.