TOLERANCE AND NON-DISCRIMINATION  //  47 TAHCLE curricula in Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Malta and Slovakia. The Office further expanded its core group of international TAHCLE trainers through a workshop that took place in Warsaw and through a second event for 22 participants (7 men, 15 women) organized in co-operation with the European Network of Police Women, and held in Templemore, Ireland. Complementing its work with police forces, ODIHR continued to work closely with prosecutors through the Prosecutors and Hate Crime Training (PAHCT) programme. The programme was expanded to include Slovakia, after an agreement was signed with local authorities. As part of the programme, workshops were held in Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Malta and Slovakia. ODIHR also expanded its pool of international PAHCT trainers through a dedicated workshop held in Warsaw in May. ODIHR worked closely with local authorities to improve how hate crime data are collected and processed in criminal justice systems. As part of these efforts, workshops were held in Albania, Estonia and Moldova. A workshop was also held in Kosovo. Finally, following consultations held in 2016, ODIHR provided guidance to a core group of government and civil society representatives to enable them to prepare tools for governments to assist hate crime victims throughout 2017. ODIHR began a two-year project in February 2017 dedicated to Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime. The project aims to strengthen how states address hate crime in co-operation with police officers, lawyers, prosecutors and judges. It will also work with the victims of hate crimes. This project, financed by the European Commission and the United States, is underway in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Poland. The outcomes of the project will be used to inspire solutions across the OSCE region. During the year, ODIHR carried out capacity-building activities in Italy, including training courses for prosecutors and law enforcement officers, and a newly designed training course for lawyers representing victims of hate crimes. Activities in Poland focused on mapping unreported hate crimes targeting the African, Muslim and Ukrainian communities, through a victimization survey. Activities in Greece included a workshop for prosecutors, the preparation of an agreement that streamlines how different government structures co-operate on hate crime and a review of how hate crime data are collected and processed. Activities in Bulgaria will begin in 2018 and will focus on developing joint training programmes and manuals for police and prosecutors. All of the tools developed as part of this project will be reviewed in national workshops before best practices are presented for future use in other states.

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