Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe

Viera Pejchal (Ph.D) is a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations. She was an active member of the ‘No Hate’ Council of Europe Youth Campaign, and has participated in many international conferences and lectured on human rights law. She has published extensively on hate speech and human rights in international academic journals and about extremism and democracy in Slovak newspapers and blogs.

• Foreword By Jiri Priban;Chapter I: Introduction;Part I: Theoretical Framework;Chapter II: Hate Speech Regulation In Democracy;Chapter III: Historical, Political And Constitutional Context Of The Czech And Slovak Republics;Part II: International Responses To The Regulation Of Hate Speech;Chapter IV: The United Nations’ Treaty Response To Regulation Of Hate Speech;Chapter V: European Responses To Hate Speech Regulation;Chapter VI: International Soft Law And The Regulation Of Hate Speech;Part III: The Czech And Slovak Frameworks On The Regulation Of Hate Speech;Chapter VII: Dawn Of The Post-Communist Regulation Of Hate Speech;Chapter VIII: Post-Communist Penal Regulation Of Hate Speech;Chapter IX: General Conclusion;

"Hate Speech and Human Rights in Eastern Europe: Legislating for Divergent Values represents a carefully conducted research rich in detail and passionately structured as a critical study of racial hatred and hate speech in Czech and Slovak societies. It is intelligent, informative and full of legal sources discussed in political and historical contexts…It will contribute to the field of international human rights law, postcommunist constitutional and legal transformations and studies of Central and East European societies." - Jiří Přibáň, Cardiff University, UK