A/HRC/56/67 B. Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education 53. The Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education reported about rising levels of ultraconservatism in the education system in Brazil. It provided information about recent violent attacks in schools, which were described as being related to societal trends relating to intolerance and the glorification of Nazism. The Campaign reported that attacks against schools in Brazil, including those involving firearms, knives and other weapons, had been on the rise since 2017, resulting in 49 fatalities and 115 persons being injured. Perpetrators of those attacks reportedly embodies perspectives and values of oppression, encompassing manifestations of racism, misogyny and authoritarian tendencies often associated with fascist and Nazi ideologies. Moreover, they were often recruited and radicalized online, frequently consuming and promoting neo-Nazi content and symbols, according to the information provided. 54. The Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education described the root causes of violence and extremism within schools in Brazil as including the proliferation of hate speech in Brazil, including online hate speech, the growth of extremism within society, gun culture and the glorification of violence in society, cyberbullying through the misuse of new information and communications technologies, social inequalities and inadequate educational policies, factors, prejudice and discrimination within individual educational institutions and weaknesses in the critical reasoning and civic competence of students. 55. The Brazilian Campaign for the Right to Education noted the need for a multifaceted approach to those phenomena and measures to address and prevent violence in schools, including investing in research and monitoring, providing protection, assistance and psychosocial support, strengthening the democratic management of the education system and promoting human rights education. C. Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association 56. Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association reported that ethnic nationalist and racist movements were on the rise globally, in particular in European countries, and that those movements included far-right political parties and neo-Nazi groups. Some groups openly espoused the principle of violent white supremacy, while other groups propagated their extreme ideologies under the banner of populism, according to the information provided. Europe had reportedly seen the rise of numerous far-right political parties with anti-migrant, anti-Muslim and xenophobic stances in their party agendas. It also reported growing Islamophobia and provided information about hate speech as a common manifestation of racism, religious intolerance and xenophobia. 57. Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association provided information about actions and initiatives at the national, regional and international levels, including a General Assembly resolution on measures to combat Islamophobia of 15 March 2024, the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, a statement made in December 2023 by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance about the increase in antisemitic incidents and a European Union action plan for 2020–2025 to combat racism, including anti-Muslim hate. 58. Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association reported that, despite such initiatives, political discourses promoting intolerance continued to be perpetuated, including through the media. The Association provided recommendations on how to address racism, religious intolerance and xenophobia, including media campaigns and educational policies that drew attention to the harms caused by racist hate speech, training for members of the police force and judiciary on international standards that protected freedom of opinion and expression and standards that protected against racist hate speech, measures to combat crimes and threats of violence motivated by religious hatred and the hatred of Muslims and action plans to address emerging forms of discrimination and xenophobia. GE.24-08848 11