SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTERRES

“All Are Responsible. All Must Act.”—UN Targets Hate Speech as Public Enemy Number One

The United Nations, responding to the alarming rise in hate speech internationally, proclaimed June 18, 2022 as the first annual International Day for Countering Hate Speech.

STAND Considers United Nations Combat of Hate Speech a Good Sign

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered an insightful speech when he launched the Fez Plan of Action to prevent hate speech as an incitement to acts of atrocity. The Fez Plan, drawn up in April 2015 in Fez, Morocco, addresses hate speech which causes atrocities against people of religion.