A/72/291 monitors criminal offences, such as racial hate or incitement to racist violence. The National Office against Racial Discrimination records, through its Contact Centre, instances of discriminatory behaviour, racial stereotypes and bias in the media and on the Internet. The National Observatory against Discrimination i n the media and the Internet, created in January 2016, focuses its work on reporting hate speech posted online and also aims at analysing, learning about and understanding the issue. Thousands of online posts are analysed on a daily basis, and a substantial portion of the posts are catalogued and included in thematic reports. A smaller proportion of other posts, that are not included but still considered to be of a strongly discriminatory nature, are reported to social networks for removal or to law enforcement for investigation and prosecution. E. Kazakhstan 26. The Government has informed the Special Rapporteur of its policy for strengthening national unity, which complies with the fundamental principles of resolution 71/179. Under the Constitution, all citizens of the country are equal and have the right to participate in State affairs, regardless of their ethnic origin, either through representative bodies or directly. 27. The Government has indicated that, under article 19 of the Constitution, citizens have the right to declare their ethnic identity or not, therefore, representatives of ethnic groups, which all have a high civil and social status, are considered to possess the full range of rights granted to the united people of Kazakhstan. The Ministry of Culture and Sports is also improving its activities in order to better promote national unity, in line with the decree to strengthen Kazakh identity, of 2015. 28. The Government has referred to the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, whose status is set out in the Constitution and whose members are elected according to the Act on the Assembly of the People and the newly adopted Act of the Republic of Kazakhstan. There are more than 900 ethnic and cultural associations in the country, which come together with regional organizations in the provincial assemblies. Members of the Assembly of the People are nominated in the provincial assemblies upon the recommendation of those associations. The Assembly selects nine of its members by rotation, in order to avoid competition among ethnic groups and sends them to the lower house of parliament. At its annual sessions, the Assembly considers issues relating to ethnic groups in order to formulate instructions for the Government. 29. The Government has reported that, in 2016, the President launched an annual Day of Gratitude, to celebrate the shared history and the unity of the Kazakh people. F. Romania 30. The Government has reiterated its commitment to fighting discrimination and explained that, under the Criminal Code, discrimination constitutes an aggravating circumstance, notably in instances of torture or limitations of the rights of a person perpetrated by a public servant when on duty. The Criminal Code also define s incitement to hatred, genocide and crime against humanity as discriminatory acts, in articles 369, 438 and 439 thereof. 31. The Government reported that organizations, symbols and deeds with fascist, racist, legionary and xenophobic character and the glorification of those found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are prohibited under 8/21 17-13411