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It is important to know what a hate crime is. When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined. A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias. Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime.

1484th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

Legal review of the draft law of Ukraine "On Media". The legal analysis was prepared by Dr. Joan Barata Mir, an independent media freedom expert.

The Comments were prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosniaand Herzegovina. 

It is important to know what is a hate crime. When a hate crime is committed, one or more perpetrators target the victim, which can be one or more people or property, because of a protected aspect of the victim's identity, such as religion or ethnicity, race, sexual orientation or disability. Similarly, a hate incident is an act of hostility motivated by prejudice or bias that does not necessarily reach the threshold of a criminal offence, or the criminal nature of which is yet to be determined. A hate crime is any crime where the perpetrator is driven by prejudice or bias. Criminal offence + bias motive = hate crime.

This Opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the Ministry of Justice of Moldova.

These Comments were prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the request of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan. 

1482nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This Opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in response to requests from the Minister of Justice and the People’s Advocate of Moldova received by the Office in September and October 2019, respectively,

This Opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) following a request from the Standing Committee on State Structures of the Parliament of Mongolia received in October 2019.