Date: 13 October 2017
Location: Canada Room, Queens University, Belfast
Save the Date: Defining public duties to tackle incitement to hatred whilst respecting free expression: Reviewing the legal & policy framework
A conference hosted by the Equality Coalition in partnership with the George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at QUB, to address the ‘threshold’ and ‘intervention’ questions increasingly defined in human rights law as to when public authorities can or must act against speech and cultural expression in order to protect the rights of others.
Conference will include both international and local speakers.