| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages) |
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Routledge research in human rights law |
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Routledge research in human rights law.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Hate speech regulation in democracy -- Historical, political and constitutional context of the Czech and Slovak republics -- The United Nations' treaty response to regulation of hate speech -- European responses to hate speech regulation -- International soft law and the regulation of hate speech -- Dawn of the post-communist regulation of hate speech -- Post-communist penal regulation of hate speech -- General conclusion |
| Summary |
"The spread of hatred and hate speech has intensified in many corners of the world over the last decade and its regulation presents a conundrum for many democracies. This book presents a three-prong theory describing three different but complementary models of hate speech regulation which allows stakeholders to better address this phenomenon. It examines international and national legal frameworks and related case law as well as pertinent scholarly literature review to highlight this development. After a period of an absence of free speech during communism, post-communist democracies have sought to build a framework for the exercise of free speech while protecting public goods such as liberty, equality and human dignity. The three-prong theory is applied to identify public goods and values underlining the regulation of hate speech in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that share a political, sociological, and legal history, as an example of the differing approaches to hate speech regulation in post-communist societies due to divergent social values, despite identical legal frameworks"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Based on author's thesis (doctoral-Université de Genève, 2019) issued under title: Hate speech regulation in post-communist countries : the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Viera Pejchal (Ph.D) is a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations. She was an active member of the 'No Hate' Council of Europe Youth Campaign, and has participated in many international conferences and lectured on human rights law. She has published extensively on hate speech and human rights in international academic journals and about extremism and democracy in Slovak newspapers and blogs |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2020) |
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Hate speech -- Law and legislation -- Europe, Eastern
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Hate speech -- Law and legislation -- Czech Republic
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Hate speech -- Law and legislation -- Slovakia
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LAW / General
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LAW / Civil Rights
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LAW / Comparative
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Hate speech -- Law and legislation
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Slovakia
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Czech Republic
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Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019057974 |
| ISBN |
9781003005742 |
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1003005748 |
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9781000057690 |
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1000057690 |
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9781000057577 |
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1000057577 |
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