Key international human rights instruments

International human rights law

• Charter of the United Nations, 1945
• Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), 1948
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (or Genocide Convention), 1948
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), 1965
• Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination general recommendation n°35 on combatting racist hate speech, September 2013
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 1966
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), 1979
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998

Further international instruments on hate speech

• Rabat Plan of Action on the prohibition of advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, 2012
• Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes, 2014
• Plan of Action for religious leaders and actors, 2017
• United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, 2019
• Guidance note on addressing and countering Covid-19 related hate speech, 2020
• Strategy and Plan of action on hate speech: detailed guidance on implementation for UN field presences , 2020
• Engaging Religious Actors to counter hate speech, prevent incitement to violence, and build peaceful and inclusive societies, 2021
• UN guidance note on gender based hate speech