UN launches plan to combat escalating hate speech | World News, The Indian Express

UN launches plan to combat escalating hate speech | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |United Nations |Published: June 19, 2019 12:58:38 pm

UN launches plan to combat escalating hate speech

Guterres said the plan aims to coordinate efforts across the U.N.’s far-flung system to confront hate speech and includes ways to engage governments, business, civil society and others to take action.

The U.N. chief told diplomats at Tuesday’s launch that “over the past 75 years, hate speech has been a precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide, from Rwanda to Bosnia to Cambodia.” (Source: REUTERS)

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is launching a plan to combat hate speech and counter what he calls “a groundswell of xenophobia, racism and intolerance, violent misogyny, anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred” around the world.