A/HRC/28/47 87. With regard to anti-Semitism, the United Kingdom continues to be a strong supporter of work in international organizations to combat anti-Semitism. It plays a leading role in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) activities in relation to the Berlin Declaration to combat hate crime, including anti-Semitic hate crime, and was represented at ministerial level at the OSCE conference in November 2014 marking the tenth anniversary of the Declaration. 88. With the London Jewish Cultural Centre, the United Kingdom organized two seminars for journalists on how to report sensitively on difficult issues without fuelling anti-Semitism. 89. The United Kingdom is the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which is working on a new multi-year work programme for all member States to improve the ways in which they teach, research and commemorate the Holocaust. The new work programme gives priority to the study of the killing sites across Europe, renewed efforts to open up closed public and private archives, wider dissemination of good practice in Holocaust teaching in schools and the raising of the profile of Holocaust remembrance days. United States of America 90. The Constitutional prohibition on the establishment of a religion by the Government, along with protections for freedoms of speech and association, as well as further protection of those freedoms for all individuals, have contributed to combating intolerance and discrimination against persons on the basis of religion or belief. The United States of America stated that robust protections on freedoms of expression, religion, association and assembly formed the basis for pluralism in the United States and for the ability of members of all religious communities and non-religious communities to participate fully in society and to contribute openly on an equal footing. (See www.justice.gov/crt/spec_topics/ religiousdiscrimination/). 91. At the Department of Justice, the Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination coordinated legal cases involving religion-based discrimination among the various sections of the Civil Rights Division and oversaw outreach efforts to religious communities. The Division has actively enforced the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, which protects houses of worship from discriminatory or unjustifiably burdensome zoning regulation. The efforts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Rights Division have also included outreach to affected communities, Commission guidance, fact sheets, question and answer documents for employers, and enforcement efforts by both agencies. 92. The Community Relations Service at the Department of Justice works on engagement with members of diverse communities, encouraging the creation of collaborative networks and creating mechanisms to work with different communities with regard to potential areas of conflict. The Service has created a set of “best practices” to address hate crimes and has worked directly with hundreds of rural, suburban and urban governments to help eliminate racial distrust and polarization and provide assistance to bring together law enforcement agencies and members of minority neighbourhoods. It also created a law enforcement roll-call video entitled The First Three to Five Seconds, which helps police officers reduce tension by differentiating between threats and cultural norms in non-crisis situations. 93. The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security also conducts public outreach and engagement initiatives with groups, including American Arab, Muslim, Sikh, Somali, South Asian and Middle Eastern communities, such 15

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