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Yesterday, I retweeted an article by @lizziedearden reporting that a UN Special Rapporteur had found that #Prevent breached human rights, calling for it to be scrapped. The @NILC disputed the accuracy of this.
So what exactly did the UN say?
ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HR…
Yesterday, I retweeted an article by @lizziedearden reporting that a UN Special Rapporteur had found that #Prevent breached human rights, calling for it to be scrapped. The @NILC disputed the accuracy of this.
So what exactly did the UN say?
ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HR…
As noted, the report was not focussed just on the UK but on CVE programmes globally. As the most elaborate and well funded CVE programme in the world and a key reference point for the globalisation of CVE policy making, its reasonable to assume she did have #Prevent in mind.
1. There was the age old problem of trying to counter or prevent a concept which remains undefined. She found that “the term ‘extremism’ has no purchase in binding international legal standards”. 
