ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has called for new United Nations Strategy and Plan ofAction to combat Islamophobia and hate speech.
Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN said this at a specialmeeting in New York.
She said an inevitable consequence is to fan the flames of bigotry,intolerance, anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia.
Maleeha Lodhi said Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has recently called forurgent action to counter Islamophobia, which is today the most prevalentexpression of racism and hatred against ‘the other’.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the occasion said the UN Strategyand Plan of Action provides a system-wide programme with the overridingobjective of identifying, preventing and confronting hate speech.
