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1103rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

1103rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

1103rd Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

In this document, ODIHR makes the following recommendations to further strengthen the provisions of the Law in accordance with international standards and good practices.

This Opinion was prepared in response to the request of the Chairperson of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues, confirming the Office’s readiness to prepare a legal opinion on the compliance of the Draft Law with international human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments.

Russian Federation (Annex). The Russian Federation’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Report by the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Brian Aggeler. Report by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Ambassador Bakyt Dzhusupov. Increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine. Commitments regarding tolerance and non-discrimination: ensuring freedom of religion or belief. Signing of the Agreement between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan on the State border. Twenty-sixth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Twenty-sixth anniversary of the NATO response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. Detention of the head of the Gagauzia region. Follow-up to the invocation of the Vienna Mechanism on 22 March 2024 to address the issue of political prisoners in the Russian Federation.

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.

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.

1514th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council