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February 25, 2019
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Mondaylaunched a new global strategy to combat hate speech, a growing scourge he saidhas poisoned debate on crucial challenges like migration.
Guterres announced the effort, which will be led byhis special adviser on genocide prevention Adama Dieng, at the UN Human RightsCouncil.
He said in a speech at the opening of the council’s40th session that hate is moving into the mainstream in liberal democracies andauthoritarian systems alike.
Governments across the world have watched withconcern as racist and other hate speech have coarsened the political climate.
France and Germany have raised particular alarm inrecent weeks over resurgent anti-Semitism.
Guterrestargeted his rebuke at the vast campaign he said was mobilised against the UN’sGlobal Compact on Migration, a non-binding text that aimed to set out bestpractices for managing refugee and migrant flows.