Stockholm - Technology companies and the media must help halt the spread of xenophobic and racist messages via the Internet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Mary Robinson, said yesterday.
The Web is used to spread messages of hate and prejudice, she told an international conference on combating intolerance. The intolerance forum, to be attended by the UN Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, and dozens of ministers and delegates from some 50 countries, is a follow-up to the Holocaust conference in Stockholm a year ago.