Effectively countering hate crime requires the co-ordination of work by various criminal justice actors – police officers, lawyers, prosecutors and judges – as well as with the victims of such crimes. Close co-operation among these different actors, based on a deep understanding of hate crime issues, is crucial for these efforts to be effective. With this in mind, in February 2017 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a two-year project to help improve the skills of and collaboration among criminal justice professionals within each of four OSCE countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Poland – and to improve their co-operation with civil society, to contribute to the building of a comprehensive criminal justice response to hate crime in each of these countries.
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