On visit to New Zealand mosque, U.N. chief vows to combat growing hate speech


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Roberto Azevedo and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrive for signing the WTO's golden book, prior the U.N. Secretary-General addressing to Special Session of the WTO's General Council, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 10, 2019. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Pool via REUTERS

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres aims to draw up a global plan to fight a rising tide of hate speech, he said on Tuesday, during a visit to a New Zealand mosque where dozens of worshippers were killed in a mass shooting in March.

Guterres visited the Al Noor Mosque in the southern city of Christchurch, where a gunman killed more than 40 people on March 15 in one of the attacks on two mosques that killed a total of 51 people.

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