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A panel discussion on the subject “Hate Speech and Incitement to Genocide” was held at UN Headquarters in New York. The event was organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect; the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression; and the Permanent Mission of Norway to the UN.

Geir O. Pederson (left), Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN, delivers remarks at the event. Also pictured: Santiago Canton (centre), panel moderator and Programme Director, Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights; and Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.