GENEVA: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday launched a brand new global method to fight hate speech, a growing scourge he said has "poisoned" debate on the most important demanding situations like migration.
Guterres announced the trouble, which shall be led by means of his special adviser on genocide prevention Adama Dieng, at the UN Human Rights Council.
"Hate is moving into the mainstream — in liberal democracies and authoritarian systems alike," he said in a speech at the opening of the council's 40th consultation.
"Some major political parties and leaders are cutting and pasting ideas from the fringes into their own propaganda and electoral campaigns," he added.
Governments across the world have watched with concern as racist and other hate speech have coarsened the political local weather.
France and Germany have raised specific alarm in recent weeks over resurgent anti-Semitism.
Guterres centered his rebuke at the vast campaign he said used to be mobilised towards the UN's Global Compact on Migration, a non-binding textual content that aimed to set out best practices for managing refugee and migrant flows.
"We have seen how the debate on human mobility, for example, has been poisoned with false narratives linking refugees and migrants to terrorism and scapegoating them for many of society's ills," Guterres said.
He condemned "an insidious campaign sought to drown the Global Compact on Migration in a flood of lies about the nature and scope of the agreement".
The UN leader famous that the campaign "failed".
But 17 countries both abstained or voted towards the compact at the General Assembly in December and debate over the textual content fuelled sour political debate especially in Europe.
Guterres said Dieng, a Senegalese lawyer and veteran UN diplomat, will "define a system-wide strategy and present a global plan of action" to fight hate speech.
Guterres announced the trouble, which shall be led by means of his special adviser on genocide prevention Adama Dieng, at the UN Human Rights Council.
"Hate is moving into the mainstream — in liberal democracies and authoritarian systems alike," he said in a speech at the opening of the council's 40th consultation.
"Some major political parties and leaders are cutting and pasting ideas from the fringes into their own propaganda and electoral campaigns," he added.
Governments across the world have watched with concern as racist and other hate speech have coarsened the political local weather.
France and Germany have raised specific alarm in recent weeks over resurgent anti-Semitism.
Guterres centered his rebuke at the vast campaign he said used to be mobilised towards the UN's Global Compact on Migration, a non-binding textual content that aimed to set out best practices for managing refugee and migrant flows.
"We have seen how the debate on human mobility, for example, has been poisoned with false narratives linking refugees and migrants to terrorism and scapegoating them for many of society's ills," Guterres said.
He condemned "an insidious campaign sought to drown the Global Compact on Migration in a flood of lies about the nature and scope of the agreement".
The UN leader famous that the campaign "failed".
But 17 countries both abstained or voted towards the compact at the General Assembly in December and debate over the textual content fuelled sour political debate especially in Europe.
Guterres said Dieng, a Senegalese lawyer and veteran UN diplomat, will "define a system-wide strategy and present a global plan of action" to fight hate speech.
UN chief launches global push against hate speech
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