Tolerance and Non-discrimination
Programmes
Programmes
Region
Freedom of Religion or Belief
OSCE Region
Law Enforcement Officer Programme on Combating Hate Crime
OSCE Region
Building the Capacity of Civil Society to Combat Hate Crimes and Violent
Manifestations of Intolerance
OSCE Region
Tolerance and Non-discrimination
OSCE Region
Educational Activities to Promote Tolerance, Respect, and Mutual Understanding and Remembrance of the Holocaust
OSCE Region
Hate Crime Legislative Assistance
OSCE Region
known to executive and legislative authorities. The ODIHR will also offer to review possible legislative proposals using the guidelines for
the review of hate crimes legislation that will be
developed in the course of 2006.
4. Civil society
The ODIHR will organize training seminars
for NGOs in order to support their efforts
and increase their capacity to monitor, report
on, and respond to hate-motivated crimes and
incidents.
The ODIHR will also intensify its efforts
to support civil society to monitor and report
on hate-motivated acts by developing a standard training curriculum on the monitoring and
reporting of hate crimes in co-operation with
a group of experts, implementing a training
programme, providing toolkits for complaints
bureaux, and supporting small-scale monitoring projects.
Furthermore, the Office will continue its outreach activities aimed at representative NGOs
of those communities most impacted by intolerance and discrimination. Manifestations of
intolerance and discrimination against particular groups in the context of the fight against terrorism will be a key issue.
5. Assistance for law enforcement and judicial
ing Hate Crime in more OSCE states in 2006,
including Croatia and Ukraine. In addition, a
component for prosecutors and investigating
magistrates is being added to the programme,
which, as originally piloted, was aimed solely at
police investigators.
The ODIHR will bring together experts in
the areas of legislation, law enforcement, and
data collection in order to develop a task force
that will be ready to assist participating States
in their efforts to prevent and respond to hate
crimes in a comprehensive manner.
6. Freedom of religion or belief
The ODIHR will work with the Panel of Experts
on Freedom of Religion or Belief to continue its
efforts to support participating States in reviewing their laws pertaining to freedom of religion
or belief, using the newly developed legislative
guidelines as a basis. The Panel of Experts will
also finalize an education module to support
monitoring and reporting efforts of civil society (NGOs/faith communities) and to increase
understanding within civil society and among
state authorities of international standards of
freedom of religion or belief. This module will
be used to pilot training seminars on freedom of
religion or belief for civil society and possibly for
state authorities in Central Asia, the Caucasus,
and South-Eastern Europe.
officials in combating hate crime
The ODIHR will continue to implement its Law
Enforcement Officer Programme on Combat-
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