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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

“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

The Special Adviser on the prevention of genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu reiterated her “grave concern” about the deteriorating security and human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly in Ituri province, a UN spokesperson said. UNIFEED

At a pre-recorded event remembering the victims of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Secretary-General António Guterres said the genocide against the Tutsi “was neither an accident nor unavoidable,” and a generation after the events, “the state of shame endures as we remember the bloodshed 28 years ago.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, describing him as an unwavering voice for the voiceless. UNIFEED

Fifteen years after the adoption of the responsibility to protect during the 2005 World Summit, a top UN official said, “despite progress, there is also a growing gap between the promise and the actual protection of vulnerable populations around the world.” UNIFEED

A “disturbing groundswell” of hate-based violence and intolerance aimed at religious devotees across all faiths, must be countered soon before it’s too late, the United Nations Secretary-General said on Monday, noting murderous attacks in just the past few days on a synagogue in California, and a church in Burkina Faso. UNIFEED

Speaking at a ceremony to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres said that as we remember the Holocaust’s victims, “we also reaffirm our resolve to fight the hatred that still plagues our world today.” UNIFEED