This is a UNICEF podcast series on hate speech and its impact on child rights with the objectives of raising awareness and knowledge among all stakeholders on the impact of hate speech on the full spectrum of children's rights and encouraging potential programmes and strategies that can be leveraged to protect children from hate speech.
The International Day for Countering Hate Speech (18 June) was proclaimed in 2021 by General Assembly Resolution 75/309 building on the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, launched by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on 18 June 2019. On the occasion of the International Day, UNICEF Human Rights Unit launched a podcast series on hate speech and its impact on child rights with the objectives of raising awareness and knowledge among all stakeholders on the impact of hate speech on the full spectrum of children's rights and encouraging potential programmes and strategies that can be leveraged to protect children from hate speech.
The podcast series includes interviews with high level speakers, including: Alice Wairimu Nderitu, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide; Barbara Reynolds, Chairperson for the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent; Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity; Mikiko Otani, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. It also includes UNICEF colleagues, as well as partners from academia and civil society, as a testimony of the wide list of stakeholders who could potentially benefit from these conversations both within and outside of the UN system in the field of international development cooperation.