UN / GENOCIDE HATE SPEECH
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STORY: UN / GENOCIDE HATE SPEECH
TRT: 03:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
17 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Nderitu walking to her seat, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
I think the key challenge is that we do not have a worldwide consensus on what constitutes hate speech.
4. Wide shot, speakers, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“So very specific ways of using hate speech so that then, that dehumanizes the person who is targeted, so that then enables the population - because to commit genocide, you do need the support of a whole segment of society convinces them that what they're doing is okay, that they actually killing cockroaches or fleas, they are not killing human beings.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“So, with social media companies, we know that often, that we know that hate speech, which of course already existed, offline, is amplified through social media. And there's been a huge concern around hate speech as amplified by social media.”
7. Close up, hands taping
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“Violent extremist groups have used social media platforms to recruit to disseminate hateful narratives, incite violence. We saw that in Iraq and Syria with ISIL. We are seeing that Al Shabaab currently right now. We've seen that with Boko Haram. We also…I spoke to also, about social media on how it contributes to find flames of violence when its violence is already existing. Although we know, of course, that social media is useful in the sense that it provides the space to engage but from the business of my mandate, I have to keep pointing out that social media platforms must take steps to ensure our platforms are not abused, to spread hate speech and utilize for the better good.”
9. Close up, hands taking notes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“We still have such a huge amount of literature, film, and propaganda that endorses and reinforces the use of an expression of inferiority and so, therefore, speaks to hate speech. In that, hate speech is really this a hydra-headed monster.”
11. Close up, hands taking notes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“It comes a lot from values, the value system, but also from the fact of from a very early age, children are not socialized against hate speech stereotypes accepted in many contexts. And those stereotypes build into prejudices which are not challenged. In fact, they are reinforced in quite a number of contexts, including in schools and of course, when people then get to that stage of actual discrimination, when they get the power to do so - because you do need power to actually discriminate - that they are building on years of stereotypes, years of things that they found they knew that their parents found acceptable, their teachers found acceptable.”
13. Wide shot, Nderitu leaving the podium, press room
STORYLINE:
Briefing reporters today (17 Jun) ahead of the International Day of Countering Hate Speech (marked on 18 Jun), UN Special Adviser on Genocide, Alice Nderitu said hate speech is “a hydra-headed monster.”
The Special Adviser said that “the key challenge is that we do not have a worldwide consensus on what constitutes hate speech.”
She also said that there are very specific ways of using hate speech that “dehumanizes the person who is targeted so that then enables the population - because to commit genocide, you do need the support of a whole segment of society convinces them that what they're doing is okay, that they actually killing cockroaches or fleas, they are not killing human beings.”
On social media, Nderitu said that hate speech, “which of course already existed offline, is amplified through social media.”
She also said that violent extremist groups have used social media platforms to recruit and to disseminate hateful narratives, and to incite violence.
“We saw that in Iraq and Syria with ISIL. We are seeing that Al Shabaab currently right now. We've seen that with Boko Haram,” she noted.
She said that social media contributes to finding “flames of violence when its violence is already existing.”
She highlighted that there is still “a huge amount of literature, film, and propaganda that endorses and reinforces the use of an expression of inferiority and so, therefore, speaks to hate speech.”
She concluded that “It comes a lot from values, the value system, but also from the fact of from a very early age, children are not socialized against hate speech stereotypes accepted in many contexts. And those stereotypes build into prejudices which are not challenged. In fact, they are reinforced in quite a number of contexts, including in schools and of course, when people then get to that stage of actual discrimination, when they get the power to do so - because you do need power to actually discriminate - that they are building on years of stereotypes, years of things that they found they knew that their parents found acceptable, their teachers found acceptable.”
In response to the alarming trend of rising hate speech around the world, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, on 18 June 2019.
This foundational instrument, which seeks to enhance the UN’s response to the global phenomenon of hate speech, is the outcome of a close collaboration between 16 United Nations entities, gathered in the United Nations Working Group on Hate Speech and coordinated by the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG).
The Strategy embodies the firm commitment by the United Nations to step up coordinated action to tackle hate speech both at the global and national levels.
In July 2021, the UN General Assembly highlighted global concerns over “the exponential spread and proliferation of hate speech” around the world and adopted a resolution on “promoting inter-religious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”.
The resolution recognizes the need to counter discrimination, xenophobia, and hate speech and calls on all relevant actors, including States, to increase their efforts to address this phenomenon, in line with international human rights law.
The resolution proclaimed 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, which will be marked for the first time in 2022.
To observe the Day, the United Nations invites governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and individuals to hold events and initiatives promoting strategies to identify, address and counter hate speech.
The President of the General Assembly convened an informal High-level Meeting to mark the commemoration of the first International Day to take place Monday, 20 June 2022, at 10 a.m. EDT at the General Assembly Hall in New York City.
TRT: 03:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
SHOTLIST
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
17 JUNE 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Nderitu walking to her seat, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
I think the key challenge is that we do not have a worldwide consensus on what constitutes hate speech.
4. Wide shot, speakers, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“So very specific ways of using hate speech so that then, that dehumanizes the person who is targeted, so that then enables the population - because to commit genocide, you do need the support of a whole segment of society convinces them that what they're doing is okay, that they actually killing cockroaches or fleas, they are not killing human beings.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“So, with social media companies, we know that often, that we know that hate speech, which of course already existed, offline, is amplified through social media. And there's been a huge concern around hate speech as amplified by social media.”
7. Close up, hands taping
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“Violent extremist groups have used social media platforms to recruit to disseminate hateful narratives, incite violence. We saw that in Iraq and Syria with ISIL. We are seeing that Al Shabaab currently right now. We've seen that with Boko Haram. We also…I spoke to also, about social media on how it contributes to find flames of violence when its violence is already existing. Although we know, of course, that social media is useful in the sense that it provides the space to engage but from the business of my mandate, I have to keep pointing out that social media platforms must take steps to ensure our platforms are not abused, to spread hate speech and utilize for the better good.”
9. Close up, hands taking notes
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“We still have such a huge amount of literature, film, and propaganda that endorses and reinforces the use of an expression of inferiority and so, therefore, speaks to hate speech. In that, hate speech is really this a hydra-headed monster.”
11. Close up, hands taking notes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, United Nations:
“It comes a lot from values, the value system, but also from the fact of from a very early age, children are not socialized against hate speech stereotypes accepted in many contexts. And those stereotypes build into prejudices which are not challenged. In fact, they are reinforced in quite a number of contexts, including in schools and of course, when people then get to that stage of actual discrimination, when they get the power to do so - because you do need power to actually discriminate - that they are building on years of stereotypes, years of things that they found they knew that their parents found acceptable, their teachers found acceptable.”
13. Wide shot, Nderitu leaving the podium, press room
STORYLINE:
Briefing reporters today (17 Jun) ahead of the International Day of Countering Hate Speech (marked on 18 Jun), UN Special Adviser on Genocide, Alice Nderitu said hate speech is “a hydra-headed monster.”
The Special Adviser said that “the key challenge is that we do not have a worldwide consensus on what constitutes hate speech.”
She also said that there are very specific ways of using hate speech that “dehumanizes the person who is targeted so that then enables the population - because to commit genocide, you do need the support of a whole segment of society convinces them that what they're doing is okay, that they actually killing cockroaches or fleas, they are not killing human beings.”
On social media, Nderitu said that hate speech, “which of course already existed offline, is amplified through social media.”
She also said that violent extremist groups have used social media platforms to recruit and to disseminate hateful narratives, and to incite violence.
“We saw that in Iraq and Syria with ISIL. We are seeing that Al Shabaab currently right now. We've seen that with Boko Haram,” she noted.
She said that social media contributes to finding “flames of violence when its violence is already existing.”
She highlighted that there is still “a huge amount of literature, film, and propaganda that endorses and reinforces the use of an expression of inferiority and so, therefore, speaks to hate speech.”
She concluded that “It comes a lot from values, the value system, but also from the fact of from a very early age, children are not socialized against hate speech stereotypes accepted in many contexts. And those stereotypes build into prejudices which are not challenged. In fact, they are reinforced in quite a number of contexts, including in schools and of course, when people then get to that stage of actual discrimination, when they get the power to do so - because you do need power to actually discriminate - that they are building on years of stereotypes, years of things that they found they knew that their parents found acceptable, their teachers found acceptable.”
In response to the alarming trend of rising hate speech around the world, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, on 18 June 2019.
This foundational instrument, which seeks to enhance the UN’s response to the global phenomenon of hate speech, is the outcome of a close collaboration between 16 United Nations entities, gathered in the United Nations Working Group on Hate Speech and coordinated by the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG).
The Strategy embodies the firm commitment by the United Nations to step up coordinated action to tackle hate speech both at the global and national levels.
In July 2021, the UN General Assembly highlighted global concerns over “the exponential spread and proliferation of hate speech” around the world and adopted a resolution on “promoting inter-religious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”.
The resolution recognizes the need to counter discrimination, xenophobia, and hate speech and calls on all relevant actors, including States, to increase their efforts to address this phenomenon, in line with international human rights law.
The resolution proclaimed 18 June as the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, which will be marked for the first time in 2022.
To observe the Day, the United Nations invites governments, international organizations, civil society groups, and individuals to hold events and initiatives promoting strategies to identify, address and counter hate speech.
The President of the General Assembly convened an informal High-level Meeting to mark the commemoration of the first International Day to take place Monday, 20 June 2022, at 10 a.m. EDT at the General Assembly Hall in New York City.
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