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This publication presents findings of the two new surveys conducted in 2022, exploring the situation with the sexual extortion as gender specific form of corruption in the higher education and public administration sectors in North Macedonia. This empirical data will contribute to the policy discussion and raise awareness among policy makers about the need to institutionalize and criminalize gendered forms of corruption in the national legislation.

1040th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

This Opinion was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) following a request from a Vice-President of the Congress of Deputies and a Vice-President of the Senate of Spain.

The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Ongoing crimes by the Kiev regime and dangerous policies of the Western alliance to exacerbate tensions. Azerbaijan’s continued policy of aggression and violation of its obligations threatening further escalation of the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed on 21 March 2023. Eightieth anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy. Twenty-fourth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Twenty-fourth anniversary of NATO’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. Invocation of the Moscow Mechanism: On Threats to the Fulfilment of the Provisions of the OSCE Human Dimension Posed by Human Rights Violations and Abuses in the Republic of Belarus.

It is important to now 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.

Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.

1416th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council