Incitement in UK Law
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Incitement to Religious Hatred: All Talk and No Substance?
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 has a frenetic history. It is the culmination of six attempts in Parliament in the last twelve years to make incitement to religious hatred unlawful.1 Each ...
- Incitement to Racial Hatred
- Incitement—A Tale of Three Agents
- Incitement and Impossibility—Do We Need a Statutory Definition of Incitement?
- Recent Developments in, and Present Position of, Incitement to Racial Hatred
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Context and the Limits of Legal Reasoning: The ‘Victim Focus’ of Section 18c in Comparative Perspective
This paper considers the recent controversy surrounding section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, and assesses the need for reform. I argue that the controversy surrounding section 18C is trace...... ... the traditional characterisation of vilification as speech that harms social cohesi on — an approach I refer to as the ‘incitement focus’. I defend section 18C’s ‘victim focus’ by analysing the reas on ing of the Human Rights Committee, the ... ...
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‘Islamophobia’ and the law
In Belgium a man was convicted for incitement to racial hatred and discrimination because he publicly tore up a Koran, before the eyes of a small group of Muslims. The case fits within a wider deve...... ... and thelaw: Belgian hate speechlegislation and thewilful destructionof the KoranJogchum VrielinkAbstractIn Belgium a man was convicted for incitement to racial hatred and discriminationbecause he publicly tore up a Koran, before the eyes of a small group of Muslims. Thecase fits within a wider ... ...
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Freedom of Expression, Counter-Terrorism and the Internet in Light of the UK Terrorist Act 2006 and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
As a result of the ‘War on Terror’ domestic governments and the international community have paid increasing attention to counter-terrorism legislation. Given the meteoric rise in prominence of the...... ... one of the most fundamental of human rights, the right to freedom of expressio n? is article will analyse the concept s of incitement, glorication and dissemination as they relate to the Internet, and evaluate their place within the broader framework of the right to ... ...
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Mass News Media and International Law
The Mass Media Declaration approved by acclamation by 161 countries in 1978 is the only official statement on journalism ever passed at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ...... ... " intended to enlist journalists in "strengthening peace and international understanding" and opposition to racism and incitement to war. These objectives are regarded by some western critics as threatening content control of the mass media. Some Soviet and ... ...
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Blasphemy, Defamation of Religions and Human Rights Law
Blasphemy is a serious wrongdoing in all monotheistic world religions. Blasphemy prohibitions have been brought into being and enforced so as to protect the dominant religion specifically. Religion...... ... ere are limits to ex pressing disrespec t – advocacy of religious hatred t hat constitutes incitement to di scrimination, hosti lity or violence is st rictly forbidden under international human rig hts law ... 60 e Human R ights Commit tee has ... ...
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