This document calls on member states to enact or strengthen laws that penalise discrimination and incitement to hatred based on "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status", consider establishing training programmes for police and judicial officials on hate crimes, collect statistics on hate crimes and report them to the ODIHR, promote intercultural dialogue between different groups and so on. The decision also calls on ODIHR to, inter alia, systematically collect best practices from across OSCE countries on preventing and responding to racism, xenophobia and intolerance.
OSCE Permanent Council Decision on Combating Prejudice
Thursday, 29 July, 2004
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