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Countering hate crime: working with civil society

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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) works closely with civil society to effectively counter hate crime. This video provides an overview of this work.

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Ambassador Michael Scanlan (l), Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, listens as Jan Henrik Fahlbusch, ODIHR Adviser on Combating Anti-Semitism, speaks at a roundtable discussion in Chisinau on effective approaches to combating anti-Semitism through education in Moldova organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and ODIHR, 18 July 2017.

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Participants at joint OSCE/ODIHR-UNESCO meeting discuss educational guide for policymakers on responding to anti-Semitism at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 13 July 2017.

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Cristina Finch, Head of the ODIHR Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department speaking during the OSCE/ODIHR event in Vienna on addressing the security needs of Jewish communities, on 7 July 2017.

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Left to right: Rabbi Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, Prof. Ingeborg Gerda Gabriel, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, Prof. Bülent Şenay, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and Jan Fahlbusch, ODIHR Adviser on Combatting Anti-Semitism, at the opening of a roundtable event on freedom of religion or belief organized by ODIHR in Amsterdam, 4 July 2017.

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Agreement signed between ODIHR and the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic.

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Participants of the seminar on Gender and Intersetional Activism discussing and presenting challenges and opportunities to include intersectionality in gender equity work. Seminar is part of the Words Into Action to Address Anti-Semitism project. 23 June 2017, Barcelona.

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Marco Ventura, Professor of law and religion at the University of Siena in Italy and a member of the OSCE/ODIHR Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief, addresses the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Vienna, 22 June 2017.

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The Joint Day of Action against Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Hatred and Discrimination was marked on 30 May 2017 with a series of international events in Brussels and concluded with an interfaith dinner at the European Jewish Community Centre in the Belgian capital.

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Train-the-trainers event on countering hate crime organized by ODIHR to sharpen the participants’ skills in understanding, identifying and prosecuting hate crimes, Warsaw 25 May 2017.

Countering hate crime: working with prosecutors

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The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) works closely with prosecutors to effectively counter hate crimes. This video provides an overview of ODIHR’s capacity-building programme for prosecutors. Visit hatecrime.osce.org for more information.

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Participants in a training event in Istanbul discuss the role of civil society in countering hate crime. The event was organized by OSCE/ODIHR in co-operation with the European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO) and Istanbul's Tuzla Municipality from 19 to 22 May 2017.