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The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information
  • The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information
  • Critical Perspectives
  • Edited by Tarlach McGonagle, Yvonne Donders
  • Published online: 05 June 2015
  • Print publication: 11 June 2015
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    There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both of these rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the system for overcoming contemporary challenges and threats to the rights. Leading scholars address key issues, such as how the rights to freedom of expression and information can come into conflict with other human rights and with public policy goals, such as counter-terrorism. The book's institutional focus comprises five international treaties, UNESCO and the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression. Relevant for academics, lawyers, policy-makers and civil society actors, it also examines how new communication technologies have prompted fresh thinking about the substance and scope of the rights to freedom of expression and information.
  • 24 - A Survey and Critical Analysis of Council of Europe Strategies for Countering “Hate Speech”
  • Edited by Michael Herz, Peter Molnar
  • Book: The Content and Context of Hate Speech
  • Published online: 05 June 2012
  • Print publication: 09 April 2012, pp 456-498
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    Summary

    Introduction

    The Council of Europe is a regional intergovernmental organization committed to ensuring respect for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law throughout Europe. Its current membership is forty-seven states. Its primary aim, as set out in its statute, is to “achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realizing the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress.” It pursues this aim “through the organs of the Council by discussion of questions of common concern and by agreements and common action in economic, social, cultural, scientific, legal and administrative matters and in the maintenance and further realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

    The Council employs a number of concurrent strategies to counter “hate speech.” These strategies have been developed pursuant to the Council's various treaties and other standard-setting and monitoring initiatives. While they are broadly congruent in terms of their overall objectives and approaches, each initiative is characterized by its own priorities, emphases, and procedural possibilities. This has resulted in considerable diversity in the range of strategies devised by the Council to combat “hate speech.” They include: the denial or reduction of legal protection for “hate speech”; the facilitation and creation of expressive opportunities (especially access to the media) for minorities; and the promotion of intercultural dialogue and understanding at the societal level.