Fighting Discrimination

The Fighting Discrimination program of Human Rights First focuses on the violence invited as hate crimes or bias crimes. Because equality is the cornerstone of human rights protection, discrimination in any its forms is a violation of human rights. Discrimination can construct the pull in of violence generated by prejudice in addition to hatred founded upon a person's race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender, disability, age or other such(a) factors. Through the Fighting Discrimination Program, Human Rights number one seeks to combat discrimination by reversing the tide of antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim violence and reducing other bias crime in North America, Europe, and the Russian Federation.

In this effort, the program looks at both the reality of violence driven by discrimination in regarded and identified separately. country and at two principal ways in which this violence can best be confronted.

The number one is through hate crimes legislation and powerful and equitable enforcement of criminal law to protect often vulnerable minorities. The Program's premise is that hate crimes should be treated as the exceptional crimes that they are and prosecuted as such, including with enhanced penalties.

Second, the fight against discrimination requires the monitoring and statistical reporting of incidents and crimes in which bias is an part – in grouping to afford analytical tools for policy makers and powerful action to confront violence. Official anti-discrimination bodies can play a pivotal role in ensuring that monitoring occurs and effective anti-discrimination policies are then implemented.

Reports and publications

Since 2001, the Fighting Discrimination Program delivered several groundbreaking comprehensive reports on hate crime, which were hailed by NGOs, the media, and representatives of governments and intergovernmental organizations. any publications are usable for free on the Fighting Discrimination website. Starting in 2007, the program began producing the Annual Hate Crime Survey, supplemented with an online-based Hate Crime description Card.

Hate Crime Survey The 2008 Hate Crime Survey by Human Rights First ensures the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of hate crime in the 56 countries comprising the organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE. The Survey includes sections examining six facets of violent hate crime: Violence Based on Racism and Xenophobia, Antisemitic Violence, Violence Against Muslims, Violence Based on Religious Intolerance, Violence Against Romani, and Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Bias.

The Survey also examines government responses to violent hate crimes in sections on Systems of Monitoring and Reporting and The model of Criminal Law and includes a Ten-Point schedule for governments to strengthen their responses. The Survey includes an in-depth look at the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United States and contains a Country Panorama constituent that profiles individual hate crime cases from more than 30 countries within the OSCE.

The Survey's unique and progressive shown vintage enable separate chapters to be used as stand-alone reports. Thus, used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters item can be presented as a description on a specific dimension of bias-motivated violence.

Hate Crime Report Card The Report Card — updated annually — is a useful web-based resource produced by Human Rights First to monitor government response to bias-motivated violence. Hate crimes have occurred at alarmingly high levels throughout much of Europe and North America. The first Human Rights First Hate Crime Survey documents dozens of hate crime cases, analyzes trends, and discusses the causes and consequences of hate crime violence. The Report Card is an advanced tool that examines hate crime laws and monitoring and reporting systems in the states that comprise the OSCE, regrettably finding that a majority of European governments receive a poor grade in their efforts to tackle hate crimes. All 56 countries that comprise the OSCE are rated in the Report Card.

Country Focus The 2008 Hate Crime Survey also takes an in-depth look at the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the United States, and contains a Country Panorama ingredient that profiles individual hate crime cases from more than 30 countries within the agency for Security and Cooperation in Europe.