Hate crimes and hate motivated incidents are one of the issues the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is working on through various programmes and activities. In order to explore challenges, good practices and the relationship between on-line hate and hate crimes, ODIHR is organising a meeting on Challenges of combating hate crimes motivated by hate on the Internet.
The meeting will be held in Warsaw on Monday, 22 March 2010, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination observed on 21 March. The main objective of this meeting is to identify current challenges and examples of successful approaches addressing hate on the internet from the view of practitioners.
The meeting will focus on the following three areas:
- Legal framework and practical challenges in combating Internet inspired hate crimes;
- Analysis of successful examples of prosecuting hate crimes related to hate on the Internet;
- Sharing of best practices, approaches and methods in addressing the phenomenon.
ODIHR encourages the participation of non-governmental organisations at this meeting, given the indispensable role of NGOs in addressing the phenomenon of hate on the Internet and hate crimes.
If you are interested to participate at this meeting, please fill in the on-line registration form available in English at:
http://tandis.odihr.pl/
or in Russian at:
http://tandis.odihr.pl/?p=home&id=0&l=ru
and submit it no later than 22 February 2010.
The organisational modalities, annotated agenda and other related documents are also available in both languages at the given website. The meeting will be held in English, with simultaneous Russian interpretation.
Please find the attached annotated agenda for a more detailed description of the meeting
Mr. Daniel Milo, Adviser on combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) can be contacted for further details regarding the event.
 EN_OSCE_ODIHRExpertMeeting.pdf | [English annotated agenda] | 62 Kb |
| RUS_OSCE_ODIHRExpertMeeting.pdf | [Russian annotated agenda] | 130 Kb |
