TOLERANCE AND NON-DISCRIMINATION  : :  37 Warsaw, 20 September 2018. Civil society representative addresses the audience during a working sesison on “Combating Racism, Xenophobia, Intolerance and Discrimination” at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Piotr Markowski) Promoting tolerance and non-discrimination is essential to ensuring the stability and security of OSCE participating States. Discrimination, intolerance and its violent manifestations, including hate crimes, affect every country and community. In 2018, ODIHR continued building the foundations for a comprehensive approach to countering hate crime, from the classrooms to courtrooms. STRONGLY AND EFFECTIVELY COUNTERING HATE CRIME Marking the International Day for Tolerance, on 16 November, ODIHR published hate crime data for 2017. The 2017 data contain information provided by participating States, civil society and international organizations. This includes official data reported by 40 states, including disaggregated official hate crime statistics for 24 countries. These are complemented by information on hate incidents in 47 participating States, as reported by 124 civil society groups, the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and OSCE field operations.