Tolerance and Non-discrimination Future Priorities Building on these activities, the ODIHR will focus on the following seven areas in 2007: 1. Monitoring, reporting on, and following up on responses to hate-motivated crimes and incidents V. Developing the Tolerance and NonDiscrimination Information System The ODIHR’s Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System was developed to serve as a repository of information received from state and non-state partners and to support the ODIHR’s efforts to disseminate information and best practices. A public website (http://tandis.odihr.pl) that was launched at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw in October provides access to action plans, statistics, legislation, and initiatives to combat intolerance and discrimination, as well as international standards, reports, and practical tools to promote tolerance and non-discrimination. Besides being a digital library, the website provides access to the reports and findings of NGOs via HuriSearch, a search engine developed by Human Rights Documentation and Information Systems International (HURIDOCS). HURIDOCS developed a customized interface for HuriSearch for the ODIHR to be able to provide access to targeted information on the issues that the ODIHR deals with from more than 3,000 human rights organizations worldwide. Through Legislationline, the ODIHR’s legislative database, the website provides access to information on existing hate crime legislation in the OSCE region. The ODIHR will focus its efforts on providing technical assistance to OSCE participating States to increase the quality, availability, and accessibility of data on hate crimes. An informal working group of experts will be created to offer technical assistance to OSCE participating States in strengthening their collection of data on hate crime. The experts will also explore the possibility of developing a template for reporting data on hate crime to be used by participating States for the purpose of communicating their information and statistics to the ODIHR. 2. Educational activities to promote tolerance, respect, and mutual understanding, and to promote remembrance of the Holocaust Projects on Holocaust education and remembrance, as well as on developing teaching material on combating anti-Semitism, will continue to be a focus. While the suggestions for educators on preparing Holocaust memorial days will be translated into additional languages, a second set of guidelines for educators on how to react to expressions of anti-Semitism in schools will be developed. Furthermore, there are plans to produce a brochure on good practices of governments on how they highlight Holocaust memorial days and commemorate victims within their countries. The teaching materials on anti-Semitism will be adapted for three more participating States. In follow-up to the ODIHR’s assessment of existing educational strategies and initiatives of OSCE states to promote mutual respect and understanding, the ODIHR will facilitate exchanges of information between experts and support national initiatives to intensify educational programmes on diversity education. Annual Report  71

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