Hate Speech

Were government licensed and other mass media partly responsible for the massacres in Rwanda in the early 1990s, and what can be done to detect and prevent illegal uses of mass media to incite genocide, whilst protecting freedom of expression? In Spring and Summer of 2004, PCMLP was asked by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to collaborate with BBC Monitoring in developing a project that aims to detect and analyse instances of hate speech in world media. PCMLP provided an in depth-report on international law in the area of hate speech, and advised both the FCO and the BBC on options for monitoring of hate speech in the future.