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Funded by the European Union Project activities The project includes the development of several practical tools and a number of activities, tested and piloted during study visits, regional workshops and webinars. It will also share good practices and lessons learned at two conferences.
Pillar 1: Pillar 2: Pillar 3: Support structures for hate crime Hate crime victims in the criminal Specialist support services for hate victims: justice system: crime victims: • Compendium of good practices on • Webinar for criminal justice • Model quality standards for specialist co-operation between civil society practitioners on models of victim services for hate crime victims; and states; involvement in criminal proceedings; • Training materials for specialist • Four national diagnostic workshops; • Compendium of good practices on support providers; • Regional workshop on the conducting individual assessments of • Two regional pilot training workshops implementation of the EU Victims’ victims’ needs; for support providers; and Rights Directive; • Guidance on conducting individual • Policy brief on specialist support, • Regional workshop on creative ways needs assessments; including recommendations. to improve hate crime victim support • Model guidance on the sensitive and systems; and respectful treatment of victims; • Policy brief on structural • Training materials on the sensitive arrangements, including and respectful treatment of hate recommendations. crime victims; and • Webinar on alternative outcomes of criminal proceedings, including mediation and restorative justice.
Cross-cutting tools: • A network of experts on hate crime victim support, made up of government and civil society representatives from 41 OSCE participating States; • An overview of the needs of hate crime victims for policymakers, criminal justice and victim support staff; • A baseline report on the status of victim support in project countries, highlighting good practices; and • A diagnostic tool for states to assess shortcomings and strengths in national hate crime victim support structures and services.
Related ODIHR resource: Related project partner resource: Contact details OSCE Office for Democratic For more information about the Institutions and Human Rights project, please visit Public Affairs http://www.osce.org/odihr/hate- Miodowa 10 crime-victim-support 00-251 Warsaw, Poland or contact EStAR@odihr.pl Tel.: +48 22 520 0600 Fax: +48 22 520 0605 E-mail: office@odihr.pl www.osce.org/odihr
This factsheet was funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014–2020).