The Sordid Origin of Hate-Speech Laws
…unanimously, without a vote. Since 2001, resolutions on defamation have become increasingly comprehensive and hostile to freedom of expression, and resistance to their more aggressive character means that they now are being put to a vote, first at the Commission on Human Rights and later the Human Rights Council (hrc), and since 2005 also at the General Assembly. After peaking in 2003, resolutions on defamation of religion have steadily lost vote…