A/HRC/43/72 phenomena and to ensure that relevant information is easily available, widely disseminated and used to develop and improve policies aimed at combating them. 6. Azerbaijan reported that article 1 of its law on fighting religious extremism of 4 December 2015 provided that actions based on religious hostility, religious radicalism and religious fanaticism constituted religious extremism. Between January and November 2019, on the basis of applications received and documentation forwarded by law enforcement agencies, the department of religious expertise reviewed over 4,000 titles of religious texts and articles and recommended prohibiting the dissemination, publication and/or importation of approximately 100 of them deemed to support religious intolerance, discrimination and radicalism. Azerbaijan added that, in the framework of measures on fighting religious extremism, 117 persons had been found criminally responsible and a number of prohibited items and firearms had been confiscated. 7. The Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, launched in 2017, was leading the efforts of Canada to counter radicalization to violence and identify and address community concerns about all forms of violent extremism, including extremism motivated by hate. The Centre’s Community Resilience Fund was a key tool for supporting partnerships and innovation in countering radicalization to violence in Canada. 8. Denmark reported that several projects aimed at mobilizing young people to prevent online radicalization and hate speech had been financed in 2016–2019 as part of the National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Extremism and Radicalization. One such project was a nationwide “youth dialogue corps” that prepared peer-to-peer dialogues, workshops and online teaching materials to support teachers at primary and secondary schools and youth clubs in holding dialogues on online behaviour. 9. In Poland, a national strategy was being prepared to address the threats of intolerance, discrimination, violence, stigmatization and incitement to violence against persons based on religion, belief or sex. Poland reported that government initiatives to ensure that all individuals could enjoy their human rights were essential for countering inhumane tendencies and preventing extremism and all forms of discrimination. 10. The Russian Federation reported taking all measures necessary to prevent the creation and operation, in its territory, of organizations and movements based on xenophobic ideologies and calling for discrimination and violence against persons on the basis of religious affiliation. It noted that persons involved in various manifestations of such intolerance had been prosecuted under Federal Law No. 114-3 of 25 July 2002 on countering extremist activities, whereby incitement to social, racial, national or religious hatred was recognized as an extremist activity. 11. The Russian Federation added that considerable attention was paid to preventing the spread of radicalism among young people. Interactive programmes for the prevention of extremism and discrimination among students between the ages of 14 and 21 years had been created, reflecting a “zero discrimination” approach. 4 The Science and Education against Terror portal, elaborated with 42 Russian institutions of higher learning, published materials to counter terrorist ideology. 5 An online interactive map of antiterrorism activities in educational organizations and scientific institutions of the Russian Federation had been functioning since 2016. 12. The Syrian Arab Republic reported that the Damascus Islamic international centre had been established in 2019 to fight terrorism and extremism and to support moderation in speech. The Ministry of Religious Property was responsible for the centre, which comprised several departments dedicated to training imams and religious leaders, undertaking scientific research on extremism and monitoring and identifying extremist thinking and actions, including online. It also reported that since 2017 the Ministry of Religious Property, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry for 4 5 http://tolerancecenter.ru/vserossiyskiy-urok-2018/. http://scienceport.ru. 3