Key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet 2011, para. 31
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- In addition, article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination stipulates that States parties shall declare all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred and incitement to racial discrimination an offence punishable by law. In its general recommendation No. 15, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination stated that "in the opinion of the Committee, the prohibition of the dissemination of all ideas based upon racial superiority or hatred is compatible with the right to freedom of opinion and expression". Moreover, the Committee has also stated that it regards article 4 of the Convention as a mandatory obligation of States parties to the Convention. It regards the obligation as consistent with the freedoms of opinion and expression affirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and notes that such kind of acts mentioned above specifically outlaws inciting racial discrimination, hatred and violence. It views the provisions as necessary to prevent organized racial violence.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/290, para. 31.
- Paragraph number
- 31
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