Posted on 08/13/2013 6:50:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United Nations committee tasked with combating racial discrimination today opened its latest round of work in Geneva with a focus on stopping the spread of racist hate speech on the Internet and social media networks, as well as the need to use education to prevent racism and xenophobia.
“Where does the right of expression, which we all want to respect, stop and the need to sanction and prevent hate speech begin? What is the point in time when one right has to recognize that it cannot be exercised if it implies the violation of another one,” UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri said in her address to the opening of the 83rd session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
As the world becomes more inter-connected, incidents in numerous countries have drawn attention to the issue of racist hate speech, which today is more easily spread across national borders, she added.
Ms. Pansieri urged the Committee to include in its deliberations the Rabat Plan of Action, adopted by independent UN experts at a meeting in Morocco in October 2012, on the prohibition of advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.
The Deputy High Commissioner noted that the Committee meets against a backdrop of two landmark events – the annual Nelson Mandela International Day commemoration and the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington in which he made his famous “I have a dream” speech.
Fifty years after his famous speech, Mr. King’s vision remained a dream for many people around the world and that was why, to continue to protect those whose human rights were being violated because of their race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, the Committee’s members are here today, said Ms. Pansieri.
She also spoke about the recent adoption by the Human Rights Council in June of a resolution on education as a tool to prevent racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, which recognized that quality education could help create more inclusive societies.
Noting continued attacks on people with albinism in Tanzania and in other countries, Ms. Pansieri reiterated the calls of High Commissioner Navi Pillay to halt these crimes and to engage with national authorities to educate people against stereotypes, including the belief that body parts from albinos have magical qualities.
The three-week session of the Committee will review reports submitted by Chile, Chad, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Belarus, Jamaica, Sweden and Cyprus.
UN HATES THE AMERICAN RACE
Anti-racism means nothing but hatred for whites, sorry if conservatives have been conned into believing otherwise.
MEMO
TO: UN anti-racism committee.
FM: ME
DATE: 13Aug2013
RE: Your agenda
Info: I hate you and you suck.
FOAD,
Enterprise
Now that they control the internet, they can do this.
I guess all those years of conservatives sitting on their asses being the smartest people in the room while this stuff was going on is finally catching up to us.
We gotta eliminate some of the keys:
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B
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for starters.
“What crisis can we make up that will enable us to take stuff away from non-Communists?”
IN YOUR FACE AMERICA!!! - From your pals, the commie piggies at the U.N. Toilet Bowl.
Let me guess... Any criticism of Islam, in fact any promotion of any other religion, is considered harmful and thus hateful to Islam. Am I right? Come on UN, you know you’re going to publicise it eventually, might as well fess up to it now.
“Hate” speech is speech the UN hates.
Understand that this is about stopping free speech. The internet scares the world elites so much that it must be curtailed. This will happen and it could be one of the great battles of a generation.
American dems and reps will happily sign on.
Like all matters race, we know that the UN plan to eliminate hate speech will be wholly dependent on what race the speaker is. Honest arguments and recitations of facts by white people will be deemed “hate”, while calls actual calls for attacks from other groups will be excused as empowerment.
Get the U.N. out of the U.S.
Get the U.S. out of the U.N.
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The white race doomed itself the day it eschewed tribalism and decided that the individual was sacrosanct.
She contradicts herself. They do not "all want to respect" free speech, rather they want to control speech and regulate thought. The very concept of "hate speech" is an affront to the concept of "free expression".
How very Orwellian of her. "UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri" is just another leftist liar in a UN that is infested with them.
Where does the right of expression, which we all want to respect, stop and the need to sanction and prevent hate speech begin? What is the point in time when one right has to recognize that it cannot be exercised if it implies the violation of another one?Depends -- if you're a Muzzie, pretty nearly ANYTHING could be classified as hate speech. THAT'S EXHIBIT A FOR WHY HATE SPEECH IS A NITWIT CONCEPT.
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