Annex to Norway’s Addendum to the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review 26 August 2019 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 4 implementing the 2016-2020 Action Plan against Anti-Semitism (United States of America); Further strengthen the commitment and take specific action to bridge existing gaps in the areas of combatting all forms of discrimination, hate speech, xenophobia and Islamophobia (Afghanistan); Strengthen systems to prevent and proscribe racism and anti-Semitism (Barbados); Enact legislative and other necessary measures to counter trends of a rise in xenophobic, supremacist and radical right-wing sentiments and to sufficiently sanction hate speech and xenophobia, as well as Islamophobia (Islamic Republic of Iran); Take further measures to combat hate crimes and hate speech (Jordan); Ensure that racial discrimination is prohibited and punished by law (Madagascar); Take additional measures to combat hate speech and hate crime (Madagascar); Step up measures to combat racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, especially against minorities (Malaysia); Ban the organization of groups who promote incitement to hatred and racial discrimination (Mexico); Take effective measures to combat racial discrimination in the labour market and in the housing sector and develop clear guidelines on the prevention of discrimination in recruitment (Qatar); Take legislative and executive measures to ensure criminalisation of the creation, leadership and participation in the activities of groups and organisations that promote racism (Qatar); 45 Include the racial dimension in the constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination (Senegal); 46 Take effective measures to address racism and the increase in hate speech and xenophobic discourse by providing the Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman with adequate human and financial resources to effectively implement its mandate (Botswana); Accepted. Partially accepted. The Government is preparing an action plan against racism and discrimination based on ethnicity and religion. The Penal Code prohibits hate speech based on another person’s skin colour, national or ethnic origin, or religion or life stance. However, the penal provision on blasphemy was removed from the Penal Code in 2015. The Government is not planning any legal amendments. Accepted. Accepted, already implemented. The Penal Code and the Equality and AntiDiscrimination Act prohibit racial discrimination. Accepted. Not accepted. A formal ban on racist organisations has been considered and rejected several times. The question was most recently considered in a report from 2016. Accepted. Partially accepted. Norway will consider introducing a ban on participation in criminal gangs. A criminal law prohibition of participation in a criminal organisation could, depending on the wording, also have implications for participation in racist organisations whose sole purpose is to commit serious crimes. Accepted, already implemented. Article 98 of the Constitution states that no human being must be subject to unfair or disproportionate differential treatment. The Constitution does not list specific grounds of discrimination, but discrimination on the basis of race is already prohibited. Accepted.