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Countering hate crime: working with the police

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This video explains how the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) helps counter hate crimes in OSCE countries by training national police to effectively identify, record and investigate such crimes.

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The Mission is assisting the Moldovan authorities in increasing awareness and understanding of the Holocaust in a local context as a way to promote an open and healing discussion of painful periods of a country’s history.

Addressing Anti-Semitism and Discrimination through Coalition-building

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Strong coalitions between government and civil society actors are essential to effectively address anti-Semitism and discrimination. Watch this video to find out how ODIHR helps create such coalitions.

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Participants in a Warsaw event discuss results of a study on unreported hate crimes and incidents in Poland conducted by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in partnership with the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights. 26 June 2018.

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Participants in a panel discussion on the role of civil society in promoting tolerance and non-discrimination, organized as part of the launch event of the ODIHR publication "Coalition Building for Tolerance and Non-Discrimination: A Practical Guide" on 26 June 2018 in Brussels. From right to left: Maryam Hamdoun, Policy Officer with the Equality and Inclusion Cluster of the Open Society Justice Initiative; Juliana Wahlgren, Senior Advocacy and Network Development Officer at the European Network Against Racism (ENAR); Julia Frost, Chief of Staff at the International Centre for Research on Women; and Olaf Stand, President of the Jewish Society of Aberdeen.

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Ales Giao Hanek, ODIHR Hate Crime Officer, and James Stockstill, ODIHR Adviser on Civil Society Relations, presenting hate crime collection practices during the Activist Forum on Preventing and Responding to Hate Crimes, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) as part of its Words Into Action project. Warsaw, 21 June 2018.

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Lukáš Parízek, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic addresses participants, as Katarína Žáková, Slovakia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the OSCE in Vienna, Jozef Halcin, Director of the Crime Prevention Department, Office of the Slovak Minister of Interior, and Ilan Cohn, Project Manager, Words into Action Project, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, ODIHR, sit. Bratislava, 14 June.

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Petya Gegova, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Justice speaks at the launch event for ODIHR's manual on joint training on hate crime for police and prosecutors in Bulgaria, while Christie Edwards, Deputy Head of ODIHR's Tolerance and Non-Discrimination department and Penka Bogdanova, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, listen. Sofia, 12 June 2018.

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Rabbi Andrew Baker (l), the Personal Representative of the Italian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, welcoming the Moldovan Government’s initiatives to promote Holocaust commemoration and education during a press briefing hosted by Monica Babuc, Minister of Education, Culture and Research, Chisinau, 8 June 2018.

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Xeni Dimitriou Vassilopouolou, Greece's Supreme Court Prosecutor, speaks at a workshop on countering hate crimes organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Athens, 6 June 2018. (OSCE/Tomasz Filipiak)

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Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), presenting the ODIHR/UNESCO publication Addressing Anti-Semitism through Education – Guidelines for Policymakers at a launch event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. 4 June 2018.

Addressing Anti-Semitism Through Education

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What is the role of school teachers and other educators in addressing anti-Semitism? How can ODIHR help equip them for this task? Watch this video to find out.