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35.
“Action Against Hate” is the title of the plan in the United Kingdom for tackling
hate crime, focusing on five key areas, including preventing hate crime by challenging the
beliefs and attitudes that can underlie prejudice and hatred. The plan will be reviewed in
2018. The Government supports True Vision, the police online hate crime reporting site,
which provides support to groups challenging anti-Christian hatred as well as anti-Semitism
against the Haredi community. It has also supported work challenging hatred against
Hindus and Sikhs as part of its overall effort to challenge all forms of religiously motivated
hate crime and to encourage victims to report incidents of hate crime.
36.
In the United States, the Attorney-General’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and
Public Safety has established a Hate Crime Subcommittee to focus on improving the
identification, prosecution and prevention of hate crimes, as well as data collection about
hate crimes. The Task Force held a high-level meeting on hate crimes on 29 June 2017 to
explore how best to understand the problem and develop policies and practices to reduce
the incidence of hate crimes in the United States.
37.
As reflected above, there is increasing activity in these States to address hate crimes
at the domestic level through improved monitoring, recording and reporting of hate crimes,
consolidated information-gathering and prevention, community outreach, strengthened
police and security measures and legal prosecution.
38.
In view of the action plan, OHCHR works with States and other stakeholders on this
particular topic, providing substantive support to implement international standards and
practical measures at the national level. For example, OHCHR recently supported the
organization of relevant trainings and meetings in Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Senegal and
Tunisia, and with media professionals from the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and from
West Africa.
I.
Understanding the need to combat denigration and negative religious
stereotyping of persons, and incitement to religious hatred, by
strategizing and harmonizing actions at the local, national, regional and
international levels through, inter alia, education and awarenessbuilding13
39.
The Virtual Campus online platform of the National Institute against Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Racism is helping to increase visibility and raise awareness about religions
and faiths in Argentina. It includes modules on religious diversity, Islam, Afrodescendent
religions and Judaism, among others. The Afrodescendent programme offers information
materials and programmes such as “Argentina is also Afro”, a thematic guide on the
Afrodescendent community, brochures about the National Day of Afro-Argentinians and
newsletters on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and
Afrodescendant Woman’s Day, which have been incorporated into this online platform.
40.
In Croatia, the prevention programme “Together against hate speech” is aimed at
promoting a culture of tolerance and non-violence and preventing all forms of hate speech
as a socially unacceptable form of behaviour. In 2017 the project was implemented through
messaging directed against hate speech; a public event organized for students, young people
and the general public; and a website “Hate speech – NO”, created to promote the
prevention of hate speech on the Internet and social media.
41.
Mauritius reported that its education sector has integrated intercultural education and
multiculturalism in the educational curriculum to equip very young Mauritians with the
notions of respect, tolerance, justice and equity. The Government also works to promote all
ancestral languages, and essays and festivals are featured in the curriculum and textbooks to
reflect the traditions, customs and religions present in Mauritius.
42.
The High Commission for Migration promoted an interreligious youth meeting —
MEET IR 2016 — to discuss religious diversity in Portugal. The Commission and the
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