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The Right to Protection from Incitement to Hatred

The Right to Protection from Incitement to Hatred

The Right to Protection from Incitement to Hatred

An Unsettled Right
October 2021
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    Against the backdrop of the new globalized hate speech dynamics, the nature and scope of States' obligations pursuant to international human rights law on prohibiting incitement to hatred have taken on increased importance and have become a controversial issue within multilateral human rights diplomacy. Key questions being posed in the on-going debates over how best to respond to the new wave of hatred include whether the international legal norm against incitement to hatred, as it currently stands, is suitable to address the contemporary challenges of this phenomenon. Alternatively, does it need to be developed further? This book traces the journey of this norm in three analytical domains; its emergence, relevant supranational jurisprudence, and the recent standard-setting attempts within the UN. The book argues that five internal features of the norm had a strong influence on its difficult path within international human rights law.

    • Subjects the international norm against hate speech to detailed conceptual, legal, historical, and political scrutiny in a manner that is not fully covered in existing literature
    • Demonstrates how the international regulatory framework prohibiting hate speech has been particularly problematic
    • Uncovers and analyses the political dynamics underlying the international negotiations over the norm prohibiting hate speech within multilateral human rights diplomacy

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    October 2021
    Hardback
    9781108837569
    256 pages
    235 × 158 × 18 mm
    0.49kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Mapping the internal features of the norm prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence
    • 3. The difficult birth of the right to protection from incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence in international human rights law
    • 4. The norm prohibiting incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence through the lens of supranational adjudicatory and monitoring bodies
    • 5. Recent normative battles within the UN on hate speech
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Index.
      Author
    • Mona Elbahtimy

      Dr. Mona Elbahtimy holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has practical experience in multilateral human rights diplomacy.