A/HRC/28/47 adopts a comprehensive approach, including the intervention of police forces to prevent and repress hate crimes. 51. The Government of Italy stated that it was fully committed to promoting interreligious dialogue and to preventing and resolving situations of discrimination and violation of the right to religious freedom by local governments, in particular concerning the burial of non-Catholics and the construction of places of worship. In order to fight all forms of religious discrimination and societal prejudice, particularly against Jewish and Muslim communities, the Government continues, inter alia, to host meetings to increase educational awareness and interreligious dialogue, while prominent religious and government officials encourage mutual understanding. In recent years, the Ministry of the Interior funded several projects to promote interfaith dialogue within the European Integration Fund framework. 52. Italy indicated that many training activities, including human rights education for all law enforcement agencies, had been introduced. The School of Civil Administration offers training courses to law enforcement officials on issues related to anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Several central and local administrations organized initiatives aimed at raising public awareness. Norway 53. The Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion is responsible for coordinating integration policies for immigrants and their children, to ensure that national policies in various fields function in unison and contribute towards achieving the goals of equal rights and duties. Dialogue and cooperation between different religious and “life stance” (non-religious) communities can foster mutual understanding and achieve respect and appreciation for both differences and common values. Financial grants have been provided for the Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities, the Christian Council of Norway and the Islamic Council of Norway. 54. Authorities have a developed a system to prevent religiously motivated hate crimes, which involves municipal units, local police, political parties and civil society. Police councils and services for the coordination of local crime prevention have been set up in more than 300 municipalities. 55. In 2014, the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion funded the Norwegian campaign entitled “Young people combating hate speech online”, as part of the European No Hate Speech Movement. The campaign is aimed at combating discrimination, harassment and hate speech on the Internet, and at supporting young people and groups in society who can be especially subjected to it. 56. Norway stated that section 135 a of the Criminal Code criminalized the uttering of discriminatory or hateful statements, which were defined as threatening or insulting anyone, or inciting hatred or persecution of or contempt for anyone because of his or her skin colour, national or ethnic origin, religion or life stance, or homosexuality, lifestyle or orientation. 57. The Government has an action plan against radicalization and violent extremism. Among its 30 measures, a project is to be launched to prevent hate rhetoric and discriminatory attitudes on the Internet. Oslo police have set up a special hate-crime unit. Other measures taken to improve the response to hate crimes are police officer training involving non-governmental organizations and regular round tables with civil society to establish dialogue and cooperation. 10

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