ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide an overview of the international legal framework that regulates the far-right and its by-products by looking at major documents and, more particularly, the ICCPR and the ICERD. To ensure an in-depth understanding of relevant provisions and themes, jurisprudence, General Comments and General Recommendations of the HRC and the CERD as well as reports of the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association and on Racism and Xenophobia will be appraised. The far-right will be comprehended within the ambit of freedoms of expression, assembly and association and freedom from racial discrimination, through the prism of equality and non-discrimination. Thus, this chapter will start by setting out the normative framework of non-discrimination before continuing to look at the freedom from racial discrimination followed by the freedom of expression, assembly and association. It will also consider issues of sanctioning and prohibiting particular rhetoric and activities which overstep legitimate boundaries, whilst also looking briefly at Article 5 of the ICCPR as another route to regulating far-right movements.
