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STAND-UP's seminar 'Against hate crime' at the European Parliament

This week, 28-29 September, the seminar 'Against Hate Crime' organised by the European project STAND UP - Fighting Hate Crime is taking place in the European Parliament (Brussels).

The aim of this event is to find a common European definition of 'hate crime' and to analyse measures that can counter this hate speech.

The seminar will also address an overview of the results obtained in the focus groups developed by the STAND UP project on hate crime and hate speech carried out in Greece, Italy and Spain, as well as a proposal for standardised reporting procedures, including the use of technology to report, investigate, prosecute and prevent (RIPP) hate speech and hate crime in the framework of multi-agency cooperation and the highest level victim assistance model.

To this end, the seminar at the European Parliament will bring together experts from the legal, law enforcement, CSO (civil society organisations), NGO and policy-making fields from different European countries.

Thursday 28: "Defining hate crime: Towards a common European definition".

Friday 29th: "Reporting Hate Crimes: Cooperation between Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAS) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)".  

Discrimination, intolerance and hatred are still present in European societies often leading to serious and violent crimes.

These practices and sentiments are to a large extent causes of wider social tensions and have lasting repercussions on victims, their families and our societies. However, there are shortcomings at European level in the handling of hate crimes and discrimination towards individuals or communities on the basis of gender, race, sexuality or other aspects, as well as in the response given by public authorities in European countries.

The main objective of the STAND-UP project is to improve inter-agency cooperation in the fight against hate crime through the design, development and implementation of a new inter-agency model led by public authorities.

The model developed by STAND-UP comprises technological tools that aim to improve the monitoring of hate speech and hate crime, as well as the exchange of data between different agencies; an established definition of hate crime; hate crime reporting templates (for law enforcement and CSOs); inter-agency manuals for victim support.

This project also makes use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques and tools so that public authorities and Civil Society organisations can identify areas of intervention, groups at risk and the weight of hate speech expressed through the internet.

STAND-UP, funded by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, is coordinated by the Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale Ordinario di Trento (Italy) and counts in its consortium with the National Commission for Human Rights - Ethniki Epitropi gia ta Dikaiomata tou Anthropou (Greece); Fundación Euroárabe de Altos Estudios (Spain); European Public Law Organization - Greece; Fondazione Agenfor International - Italy; Association des Agences de la Democratie Locale - France.

 

 

 

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