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.
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