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{i} Civil Society Update - Consultation - Racism and the Internet - Deadline 3 August 2012

From: OHCHR Civil Society Section <civilsociety <at> ohchr.org>


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Civil Society Section
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

 

Consultation on Racism and the Internet

 

Deadline - 3 August 2012

 

 

Dear All,
 

In preparation for a forthcoming thematic research to be presented to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Mr. Mutuma Ruteere, invites you to submit contributions on key issues and challenges in combating the use of the Internet in propagating racist and xenophobic content, incitement to racial and xenophobic violence as well as good practices and initiatives undertaken at all levels to address those challenges and issues.
 

In this regard, the Special Rapporteur would like to invite anyone to contribute to this research by submitting information on:

 

- Key issues, dilemmas and challenges in combating the use of the Internet to propagate racist and xenophobic content and incitement to violence; 
 

- Governance of racist and xenophobic content on the Internet, and appropriate balance between the protection of freedom of opinion and expression and the control of racist and xenophobic content and incitement to violence through the Internet;
 

- Key legal and policy measures taken at national, regional and international levels to combat the use of the Internet in promoting racist and xenophobic views and incitement to violence; 
 

- Possible good practices at national, regional and international levels in combating the use of the Internet to propagate racist and xenophobic views and incitement to violence;
 

- Possible good practices in terms of initiatives and measures to promote the use of the Internet as a tool against racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia;
 

The Special Rapporteur would like to encourage that the information submitted highlights in particular good practices, lessons learnt and promising experience in addressing the use of the Internet to propagate racist and xenophobic content and incitement to racial violence as well as in promoting the use of the Internet to contribute to combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

 

Should you need more information, please visit the website of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance : http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Racism/SRRacism/Pages/IndexSRRacism.aspx
 

 

Please send your contributions, in English, no later than 3 August 2012 to: racism-IjyytUdcX57YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org

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