Attachment 2
Country
Overseas Legislation Related to Hate Speech
Regulations
Legislation
Regulation
- Acts of defamation and insult towards individuals or
France
Law on the
Media and
Freedom
(Loi sur la
liberté de la
presse du 29
juillet 188)
groups due to their “ethnicity, nationalities, race, or
religion” or “gender, sexual orientation, sexual identities,
disabilities”
- Causing discrimination, hostility, or violence towards
individuals or groups due to their “ethnicity, nationalities,
race, or religion” or inducing hostility and violence due to
“gender, sexual orientation, sexual identities, disabilities”
Orders of
Council
(Décrets
en Conseil
d’Etat)
- Behavior that defames dignity, insults, or induces
discrimination, hostility, and violence towards others
due to their race, nationalities, ethnicity, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, or disabilities under any situation
- Publicly showing threatening, abusive, insulting words,
behavior, or text that has “the purpose to encourage
Public Order
Act 1986
racial hostility” or “situations for possible racial hostility
under all conditions”
- Threatening words or behavior due to religion or sexual
orientation, or publicly showing those words
England
- Defines harassment as behavior that violates the
dignity of humans related to their age, disabilities,
Equality Act
2010
sex change, race, religion or beliefs, gender or
sexual orientation by posing threats or hostility,
shows contempt or shame, or has purpose or
effects on establishing an insulting environment
that is not desirable to others
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