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FM emphasizes need for building legal deterrence against hate speech
February 16, 2022

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has emphasized the need for reviewing discriminatory state laws, policies and practices and promoting inter-faith harmony, tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

Inaugurating the eight meeting of the Istanbul Process, being hosted on a virtual platform by Pakistan from Geneva, the Foreign Minister presented a three-pronged preventive and action-oriented strategy as a way forward to prevent and counter menaces.

The theme of the meeting is "10th anniversary of UN Human Rights Council resolution 16/18: Looking Back and Moving Forward."

In his key-note address, the Foreign Minister called for building legal deterrence against hate speech; and concluding an international instrument that prohibits dissemination of ideas and expressions which incite acts of religious intolerance and hatred leading to violence.