A/HRC/37/44 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 13 8 Paragraph 7 (g) of resolution 34/32.

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