INCITEMENT TO HATRED, HOSTILITY, DISCORD, VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION - PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE THE SUPPRESSION OF HATE SPEECH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
INCITEMENT TO HATRED, HOSTILITY, DISCORD, VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION - PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE THE SUPPRESSION OF HATE SPEECH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Author(s): Darko PandurevićContributor(s): Vladana Vasić (Editor), Emina Bošnjak (Editor), Aida Spahić (Translator)
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Social differentiation, Studies in violence and power, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Sarajevo Open Centre
Keywords: BiH; Serbia; Montenegro; Croatia; hate speech; violence; discrimination; incitement to hatred; hostility; suppression of hate speech; proposals; legislation;
Summary/Abstract: For the past 20 years hate speech, as well as inciting, spreading and promoting hatred has been omnipresent in the public discourse, the Internet, online magazines and social networks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Inciting, spreading and promoting hatred was regulated for the first time in 1945 when the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia adopted the Law Against Incitement to National, Racial and Religious Hatred and Discord. Soon after, the act of incitement to national, racial and religious hatred, hostility and discord was regulated by the Criminal Code of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia. Introducing such legislation was made possible by recognising the pernicious effects of these types of crimes on the whole society and the need for official sanctioning by the state.
Journal: Human Rights Papers
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 1-16
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English