Question: Presentation – On human rights, racism, hate crimes and holocaust denial.
Answer: Today’s presentation is focused on the debates and conflict surrounding the right to be allowed freedom of expression and the right to freedom from acts of violence, threat, and hostility -be it in the form of physical or verbal abuse. Striking a balance between the goals of eliminating any form of discrimination and protecting freedom of speech has always been a serious preoccupation in international human rights law. Although the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects freedom of expression and opinion and information in its article 19- it also includes a counterbalance in the general clause on permissible restrictions “in a democratic society” contained in its article 29. I shall begin the presentation with a definition of hate crimes....(short extract)
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- Subject: Law
- Course: Human Rights Law
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 68%
- Words: 1872
- Date submitted: February 06, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Project
- Essay ID: 665
