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Hate Crime Victim Support: Policy Brief Hate Crime Victim Support: Policy Brief This policy brief condenses the knowledge and key findings of the Enhancing Stakeholder Awareness and Resources for Hate Crime Victim Support (EStAR) project implemented by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions

This Compendium has been created by the the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in partnership with the Association of Counselling Centers for Victims of Right-Wing, Racist and Antisemitic Violence in Germany (VBRG).

The Proceedings of the International Conference “Raising Awareness on Gender Inequalities and Corruption,” held on 10 December 2021 in Tirana, Albania. The International Conference was organized by OSCE Presence in Albania, Governance in Economic and Environmental Issues Department.

The Preliminary Research “The gendered impact of corruption in the Albanian health care and tertiary education sectors” is commissioned by the OSCE Presence in Albania under the project framework “Consolidated Action against Corruption in Albania” (2020).This preliminary investigation focuses on the gendered impact of corruption in the health care and tertiary education sectors in Albania by approaching the issue through an intersectional perspective recognizing that women are not a unitary category.

Hate crime victims require access to specialist support services. These services should be victim-centred, needs-based and diversity-sensitive. They should include practical help, emotional and psychosocial support, advice relating to legal and financial issues and community engagement. Such specialist support services for hate crime victims should be free of charge, confidential and form an integral part of a comprehensive hate crime response.

The curriculum provides a step-by-step description of how to conduct training for police, prosecutors and judges on the sensitive and respectful treatment of hate crime victims. It aims to improve their knowledge and skills on how to respond to and interact with hate crime victims and by doing so, empower victims, prevent re-victimization and build a sense of trust in the criminal justice process. The curriculum has been developed in a modular structure, enabling trainers to integrate relevant modules into various training programmes.

Published by the OSCE Presence in Albania

The publication guides you through the process of creating highly interactive workshops, with special reference to the implementation in the changed circumstances of educational work. The central part of the guide is a description of techniques, games and exercises that allow for an extremely high level of active participation of students in their process of learning and strengthening skills. The guidebook is available in Serbian language.

This policy brief provides an overview of the concrete steps and measures governments can take to establish or strengthen structural arrangements to make a comprehensive and needs-based hate crime victim support system a reality.

The research focuses on examining the needs of schools in the changed circumstances of educational work, with a focus on the perspective of teachers, while the results were used to create practical tools to support their work and create recommendations for preventing risky behaviors during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted online among 916 teachers from 271 primary schools in Serbia. Based on the research results, recommendations were created to support teachers and schools in their work on the prevention of risky behaviors in COVID and post-COVID time. The publication is available in Serbian language.