TOLERANCE AND NON-DISCRIMINATION  Sofia, 12 June 2018. Petya Gegova, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice speaks at the launch event for ODIHR’s manual on joint training on hate crime for police and prosecutors in Bulgaria, while Christie Edwards, Deputy Head of ODIHR’s Tolerance and Non-Discrimination department and Penka Bogdanova, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, listen. (OSCE/ Tomasz Filipiak) training-of-trainer sessions, in August in the United Kingdom. Police and prosecutors need to work closely together to ensure the successful prosecution of hate crimes. Through three joint training sessions, bringing together police officers and prosecutors in Bulgaria, ODIHR developed a training manual intended for use both in Bulgaria and across the OSCE region to overcome challenges to effective co-operation between these two components of the criminal justice system. In Greece, specialized hate crime prosecutors were appointed and new guidelines for processing hate crime data were the result of extensive work between governmental agencies and civil society representatives, facilitated by ODIHR. The resulting agreement regulates inter-agency co-operation on hate crimes and improves the local data-collection system. ODIHR also strengthened the Slovak prosecutor’s abilities to identify and prosecute hate crimes, as well as created a pool of future trainers to expand these efforts across the country. Stakeholders in Moldova and in the Czech Republic, including prosecutors, judges and government officials, learned about ODIHR’s work on hate crimes at seminars held in October and December, respectively. Partnering with civil society Civil society plays an important role in raising awareness of the discrimination and hate crimes faced by minority communities throughout the OSCE region, and in breaking the cycle of violence that emerges when these crimes are left unaddressed. Improving how civil society monitors hate incidents was focus of workshops designed to improve reporting in Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia, held in Almaty, Bishkek and Tbilisi in February and March 2018. ODIHR is developing Women made up 49% of the 2,150 participants at tolerance and nondiscrimination events in 2018. : :  39