Annex to Norway’s Addendum to the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review 26 August 2019 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 5 Step up efforts to prevent hate crimes and consider providing training to police officers in order to investigate such crimes (Chile); Adopt further measures to combat hate speech, in particular Islamophobia and xenophobia, and to combat its crimes, including by building and strengthening the capacity of police to assume its role in this regard (Qatar); Consider the issue of establishing special units of the law enforcement bodies in order to prevent and combat rhetoric of hatred in public domain, as well as collect data on statistics of hate speech (Russian Federation); Strengthen the fight against hate speech and xenophobic discourse by politicians, the media and society as a whole, especially on the internet/social media, directed against immigrants, minorities and members of indigenous groups (Serbia); Implement measures to combat hate speech and xenophobic discourse against migrants, minorities and indigenous peoples (Plurinational State of Bolivia); Continue to strengthen efforts to address hate crimes, intolerance, as well as incitement to hatred both online and offline through inclusive measures with the participation of all relevant stakeholders (Sri Lanka); Include gender, gender identity and gender expressions as grounds of discrimination in the Penal Code articles protecting against hate crimes (Iceland); Ensure a consistent effective enforcement of the Criminal Code; which is provided for the penalization of discriminatory expressions and hate speech, to prevent and protect against hate speech (State of Palestine); Continue efforts to strengthen the capacity of law enforcement officials to investigate hate crimes and xenophobic discourse to prevent hate crimes and ensure the establishment of hate crime units throughout the country (Bahrain); Strengthen the investigation capacity of law enforcement officials on hate crimes and criminal incitement to hatred, including on the internet (Sweden); Strengthen the capacity of law enforcement officials to investigate hate crimes and criminal hate speech (Zambia); Guarantee the recording and effective investigation of cases of hate speech or incitement to racial hatred and violence and racially motivated hate crimes, Not accepted. See 70. Partially accepted. The Government is implementing its Strategy against Hate Speech (2016 –2020). The media sector is one of the focus areas. There are no specific measures aimed at politicians. There is, however, a political declaration against hate speech from the Government, from 2015, and a general call from the Prime Minister to keep the public debate objective and constructive. The Prime Minister has also recommended all politicians to go through their Facebook pages and remove any hateful expressions.5 Accepted. Not accepted. The Government will consider whether gender, gender identity and gender expression should be included in the relevant provisions on hate speech and hate crimes. Accepted. Not accepted. The specialist group in Oslo Police District gives advice to other districts. Accepted. The Government’s Strategy against Hate Speech 2016-2020: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/the-governments-strategy-against-hate-speech20162020/id2520975/. 7