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Hate speech that can briefly be defined as advocacy of hate and hatred based on nationality, race or religion, possesses a special situation in international law. Even a specific type of these speeches that leads to genocide is one of the few international crimes along with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Some events of the recent decades indicate that the racist movements, with the hate speeches as their main motive, are expanding in the world and even in the Europe that is supposed to be the pioneer of the human rights movement. This indicates the need for and the importance of discussion about this issue. This necessity has led that, besides the general prohibitions on the freedom of expression in the international instruments of human rights, some of the documents, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination have specifically mentioned the prohibition of these speeches. However, the international instruments have been divided in defining this concept. This difference that especially is between the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the one side and other international instruments on the other has increased the importance of this concept's understanding.

Keywords: Hate speech, Discrimination, Hostility, Violence, Incitement

     

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