Events
Enhancing Community-Law Enforcement Relations in Combating Hate Crimes against Muslims
When
28 April 2014 (All day)
Where
Vienna
Organized by
The Swiss Chairmanship of the OSCE and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
The meeting will bring together government officials, law enforcement practitioners, non-governmental organizations and Muslim community representatives. The objectives of the meeting are threefold:
1) Explore the challenges to the security of Muslim communities in the OSCE region, with a particular focus on how to enhance law enforcement - community relations in order to remove barriers to reporting, responding to and preventing hate crimes against Muslims;
2) Exchange views on the role of governments and share good practices of co-operation between authorities and Muslim communities, and
3) Develop a set of recommendations on how to enhance confidence in law enforcement in order to more effectively combat anti-Muslim hate crimes.