A/HRC/RES/13/16
incitement to hatred, as stipulated in article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, without prejudice to the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee on
complementary standards, and requests the High Commissioner to continue to build on
such initiatives, with a view to contributing concretely to the prevention and elimination of
all forms of incitement and its consequences of negative stereotyping of religions or beliefs
and their adherents which affect the enjoyment of human rights of concerned individuals
and communities;
21.
Requests the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to report on all manifestations of
defamation of religions, and in particular on the ongoing serious implications of
Islamophobia, for the enjoyment of all rights by their followers, to the Council at its
fifteenth session.
42nd meeting
25 March 2010
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 20 to 17, with 8 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Bahrain,, Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Burkina Faso, China,
Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
South Africa;
Against:
Argentina, Belgium, Chile, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands,
Norway, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay,
Zambia;
Abstaining:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, India, Japan,
Madagascar, Mauritius.]
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