A/HRC/25/34 Act permited the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to regulate the content of radio and television programs. 14. In February 2013, the Government of Canada had established the Office of Religious Freedom which was mandated to promote freedom of religion or belief as a core human right, encourage protection of religious communities and promote Canadian values of pluralism and tolerance around the world. Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom engaged in consultations with international stakeholders and delivered speeches at various events. Czech Republic 15. The Czech Republic indicated that the Government Council for Human Rights included experts on religious freedom and had set up a subsidiary Committee against Discrimination to address discrimination on all grounds, including religion, faith or belief. The issue of religious tolerance fell within the competence of the Churches Department of the Ministry of Culture. In 2012, financial subsidy had been granted to support a festival bringing together Christians, Jews and Muslims to deepen and promote their mutual understanding and dialogue, and to raise public awareness as a way to counteract the spread of extremism. 16. The applicable constitutional legislation, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the international human rights instruments binding on the Czech Republic prohibited discrimination on the grounds of religion, faith or belief. They also safeguarded freedom of thought and conscience, religion, practice of a faith and religion, as well as the freedom of churches and religious societies. The Anti-Discrimination Act prohibited discrimination on the grounds of religion, faith or belief in several sectors. 17. Propaganda and attacks motivated by religious intolerance were crimes under Czech law. The new Criminal Code (2009) included “the definitions of crimes of violence against a group of population or against an individual, dangerous threats, dangerous persecution, defamation of a nation, race, ethnic or other groups of persons, and incitement to hatred for a group of persons or to actions restricting their rights and freedoms.” In many other definitions of crimes, the presence of the element of religious intolerance automatically resulted in a heavier penalty in crimes. This element was also included in the list of general aggravating circumstances that attracted stricter penalties in any case. 18. To prevent the formation of groups promoting religious or other intolerance, the new Civil Code effective 1 January 2014 introduced a ban on the establishment of a legal person in cases where the purpose of such legal person was to deny or restrict individual, political or other rights of individuals because of their nationality, sex, race, origin, political or other opinion, religion and social status. France 19. France stated that freedom of religion or belief was a fundamental human rights principle, which was guaranteed by French national law, reflected in article 10 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen) (1789) and fully guaranteed by the French Constitution. Implementation of this principle at the national level was guided by strict respect for freedom of religion and secularism. 20. The Minister of the Interior was responsible for relations with religious associations and faith-based organizations, and individuals enjoyed freedom of worship. Religious 5