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Hate Speech and Child Rights - UNICEF

Hate Speech and Child Rights - UNICEF

Written by: Manel Stambouli
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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.

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  • How structural inequality and exclusion fuel hate

    How structural inequality and exclusion fuel hate
    Jun 19 2023
    Vanessa Wyeth is UNICEF’s Global Lead for Conflict Prevention, Fragility and Peacebuilding. She brings to the role 20 years of policy experience working on conflict and fragility, most recently serving as Senior Policy Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN, where she led Canada’s 2020 chairmanship of the Peacebuilding Commission and was one of the lead negotiators for the 2016 and 2020 resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. Prior to joining the mission in 2015, she worked at the OECD Development Cooperation Directorate as lead advisor on conflict and fragility and head of the secretariat for the DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility. Before that, she worked at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation and the International Peace Institute, where she led IPI’s research on peacebuilding and state fragility from 2004-2012, and served as a visiting fellow to USAID’s Center for Conflict Management in 2011. She started her career working for UNFPA in Kosovo in 2002, with additional field experience in Niger and Rwanda, and has published widely on conflict, development, and peacebuilding, including as co-editor, with Chuck Call, of Building States to Build Peace (Lynne Rienner, 2008). She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

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    10 mins
  • The link between hate speech and child rights in armed conflict

    The link between hate speech and child rights in armed conflict
    Jun 19 2023
    Aurélie Lamazière is Senior Programme Manager with Save the Children, based in Geneva. With Save the Children for almost 10 years, she currently leads Save the Children’s work on accountability for grave violations affecting children in conflict. Aurélie has worked for various humanitarian non-governmental organisations both at field and headquarter levels. She combines strong experience in humanitarian policy and advocacy work and technical expertise notably on international legal accountability mechanisms.

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    17 mins
  • The impact of hate speech on early childhood development

    The impact of hate speech on early childhood development
    Jun 15 2023

    Erinna Dia, UNICEF Associate Director for Early Childhood Development. Before moving to UNICEF’s Headquarters as Associate Director for Early Childhood Development, Ms. Erinna Dia worked as Chief of Education in West and Central Africa, the Middle East and South Asia where, with the teams under her leadership, she has achieved critical results for children in complex and nonpermissive political and operational environments. Prior to joining UNICEF, Erinna Ms. Dia held technical positions in the human development and economics departments of the African Development Bank. In these capacities, she worked with Regional Member Countries on the elaboration and implementation of education and protection projects to foster social transformation and generate growth through improved access to education, skills, technology and employment. She has co-authored several papers and journal articles on parenting, and education challenges and opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa.



    Eduardo Garcia Rolland, Early Childhood Development Specialist. Eduardo García Rolland is a humanitarian worker with more than 25 years of experience in child protection, management, emergencies, education and early childhood development. He holds a law degree and a masters on international humanitarian aid from Spain and Germany. He started working in Latin-America in Peru in 1995. Since then Eduardo has been involved in different emergencies, civil wars, and natural disasters in Burundi, Rwanda, DRC, Sierra Leone, Colombia, Mexico, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Jordan, etc. He has worked in civil society organisations as well as intergovernmental agencies. Previously, Eduardo worked in the Middle-East as UNICEF ECD and ECE Specialist since 2017 based in Amman. Nowadays, he is Early Childhood Development Specialist focusing on humanitarian settings within the Nutrition and Child Development Team.



    Radhika Mitter, Early Childhood Development Specialist. Radhika Mitter is an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Specialist at UNICEF Headquarters, New York, responsible for global evidence and knowledge management of ECD programmes. Radhika's work focuses on providing technical support and facilitating global knowledge exchange and learning on ECD programmes including those focused on the promotion of nurturing care, parenting support, and caregiver mental health. Prior to UNICEF, Radhika worked at the World Bank and Results for Development where she provided research and analytical support to ECD and Education-focused programmes. She holds a master’s degree in International Development with a concentration in Education.

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    12 mins
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