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Lista documentelor Consililului Europei cu privire la discursul instigator la ura

Please find below a series of papers adopted and emited by the Council of Europe regarding hate speech: 

 

Handbooks and factsheets

Factsheet on hate speech, 2008, Directorate of communication, Council of Europe

Factsheet on EctHR case law, Hate speech, June 2012, Press Unit, European Court of Human rights

Anne Weber, Manual on hate speech, Council of Europe publishing, September 2009.

Living together, A handbook on Council of Europe standards on media’s contribution to social cohesion, intercultural dialogue, understanding, tolerance and democratic participation Council of Europe publishing, April 2009

 

Treaty framework

Article 10 of the European Covention on Human Rights (Freedom of expression)

Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, CETS No.: 189
 
 
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
 
Country opinions and Thematic commentaries adopted by Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
 
Third thematic commentary on language rights adopted on 24 May 2012.
 
 
Texts adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
 
Recommendation No. R (97) 20 on “hate speech” adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 October 1997
 
Recommendation No. R (97) 21 on the media and the promotion of a culture of tolerance adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 30 October 1997
 
Declaration on Freedom of Political Debate in the Media adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 12 February 2004.
 
Recommendation CM/Rec(2011) 7 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on a new notion of media, adopted on 21 September 2011 
 
 
General policy recommendation adopted by ECRI ( see also country monitoring reports)
 
General Policy Recommendation no. 6 on Combating the dissemination of racist, xenophobic and antisemitic materiel via the internet, adopted by ECRI on 15 December 2000.
 
General policy recommendation no. 7 on national legislation to combat racism and racial discrimination, adopted by ECRI on 13 December 2002.
 
General policy recommendation no. 13 on combating anti-gypsyism and discrimination against Roma, adopted by ECRI on 24 June 2011.
 
 
European Commission for democracy through Law (Venice Commission)
 
Report on the relationship between freedom of expression and freedom of religion: the issue of regulation and prosecution of blasphemy, religious insult and incitement to religious hatred, adopted by the Venice Commission at its 76th Plenary Session 17-18 October 2008. (Full edited version)
 
 
Issue discussion papers and opinions published by the Commissioner for Human Rights
 
Issue discussion paper, Ethical journalism and human rights, 2011