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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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