"GENOCIDE PREVENTION"

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

General Assembly: 84th plenary meeting, 77th session

General Assembly: 83rd Plenary Meeting, 77th Session

Addressing a high-level event to mark the 2nd International Day for Countering Hate Speech, General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said, “Marking this International Day encourages us all to do our part – by identifying hate speech early, confronting it directly, and halting it immediately.” UNIFEED

Speaking ahead of the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, observed on June 18, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, said that “the root causes” of hate speech “are not technological” but “technology is really just the means through which these ideas are communicated.” UNIFEED

A group of representatives of the Mothers of Srebrenica visited UN Headquarters in New York on the eve of International Day for Countering Hate Speech, observed at the UN on June 18. UNIFEED

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly.

“These clothes represent the latest moment of my daughters, how their lives have been taken, how young they were, angels,” a survivor said in an interview on the occasion of the exhibition "Stories of Survival and Remembrance - A Call to Action for the Prevention of Genocide.” UNIFEED