| Ambassador's Speeches |
| Ambassador Finley participated in Budapest Conference on Hate Speech |
Ambassador Julie Finley participated in a two-day conference on Hate Speech, March 31-April 1, 2006. The conference, co-sponsored by the Central European University in Budapest and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, addressed many questions such as "When should hate speech be criminally punished?"; "Is it possible and desirable to find a common hate speech regulatory policy?"; and "Is it possible to agree on a globally applicable definition of "incitement to hatred?". Ambassador Finley presented the U.S. views in the panel of diplomats where five OSCE ambassadors (U.S., Russia, France, Turkey, and Slovakia) discussed the pros and cons of government regulations and the recent cartoon controversy.
• U.S. Perspectives on Hate Speech and Government Regulation
• Press Release by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
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Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative
on Freedom of the Media, moderates
the panel of diplomats |
Ambassador Finley at the panel of diplomats at the Budapest conference
on Hate Speech on April 1 |
from left: French Amb. Yves Doutriaux, Turkish Amb. Yusuf Buluc, Amb. Julie Finley, Miklos Haraszti, Hungarian Amb. Marianne Berecz, Anastasia Crickley (Personal Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination), Slovak Amb. Peter Lizak |
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