TOLERANCE AND NON-DISCRIMINATION    35 “ Europe is strongest when it protects its diversity, tolerance and openness. Having spent many years as an activist working on coalition building between different groups, I know what an empowered civil society can do to prevent and address hate crimes and discrimination. We must keep investing in those networks and people, across Europe." Participants at an ODIHR-organized meeting on antiSemitism, in Brussels, 16 June 2016. (OSCE/ Michael Chia) Soraya Post, Member of the European Parliament, Co-President ARDI, said at an ODIHR event highlighting the role of civil society coalitions in responding to antiSemitism, discrimination and intolerance, 17 June 2016. and education. This workshop was co-organized with the OSCE Mission to Moldova, with the support of Moldova’s Foreign Ministry and Bureau for Interethnic Relations. In April 2016, the Serbian government and ODIHR agreed to distribute teaching materials on anti-Semitism in classrooms across Serbia.  Developed by ODIHR and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the materials cover different aspects of anti-Semitism, from the specific national context and the broader European history of anti-Semitism to contemporary manifestations.  Countering Intolerance against Muslims OSCE participating States have acknowledged the need to specifically counter intolerance against Muslims, which threatens the security of Muslim communities, perpetuates stereotypes affecting Muslims and hinders the access of Muslim women to education and employment. To help address this challenge, officials, researchers, civil society and community representatives met during a conference organized by ODIHR and the German 2016 Chairmanship of the OSCE to explore the challenges facing Muslim communities. The event, held in Vienna on 19 February, also enabled participants to share good practices and formulate recommendations for future activities at the local, national and international levels. Two workshops were also held to strengthen the ability of civil society groups to monitor and report hate crimes targeting Muslims. The first event, held in Vienna on 15 and 16 November, organized by ODIHR, the Islamic Religious Authority of Austria (IGGiÖ) and the Documentation Centre for Muslims (Dokustelle für Muslime), targeted Austrian organizations working on the issue of intolerance against Muslims. This was followed by a second workshop, which emphasized best practices and lessons learned in monitoring, recording and reporting hate crimes against Muslims, held in Warsaw on 5 and 6 December. Addressing intolerance against Christians Representatives of civil society, governments and international organizations explored ways to improve security for Christian communities in the OSCE region and to address intolerance against Christians, at a conference held in Vienna on 14 December 2016. The conference identified methods for developing sustainable strategies to eradicate the root causes of intolerance and discrimination against Christians. ODIHR also published data on hate crimes and incidents, including those against Christians, that highlight gaps and under-reporting in the information provided on such hate crimes.