{"id":13857,"date":"2017-08-03T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org?p=13857"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:44:53","slug":"human-rights-watch-russia-slow-to-recognize-hate-as-motive-for-targeting-victims-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/publications-about-us\/human-rights-watch-russia-slow-to-recognize-hate-as-motive-for-targeting-victims-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch: Russia Slow to Recognize \u2018Hate\u2019 as Motive for Targeting Victims of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

HRW: \u2018I Only Wish I Could Exchange My Life for Another\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s significant that hostility towards LGBT people was acknowledged as a motivating factor precisely because hate crimes are a serious issue in Russia, and something that the United Nations experts who monitor Russia\u2019s compliance with the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination<\/a> (CERD) will examine in Geneva this week. It is a difficult task because Russian authorities don\u2019t compile hate crime data and have not been contributing to the OSCE\u2019s statistics on hate crimes<\/a>, published annually by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights<\/a> (ODIHR). Nevertheless, independent monitors flag<\/a> that the most frequent<\/a> victims of hate attacks in Russia are non-Slavs, religious minorities, and LGBT people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia should ensure that authorities systematically recognize hate motives in a crime as an aggravating circumstance and launch mandatory training programs for law enforcement officials and judiciary. The government should also list hate crimes as a separate category in criminal statistics<\/a> to give the public a clear picture of the issue\u2019s scope and resume its reporting on hate crimes to the OSCE as part of contributing to international efforts aimed at resolving the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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HRW: \u2018I Only Wish I Could Exchange My Life for Another\u2019 It\u2019s significant that hostility towards LGBT people was acknowledged as a motivating factor precisely because hate crimes are a serious issue in Russia, and something that the United Nations experts who monitor Russia\u2019s compliance with the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) will examine in Geneva this week. It is a difficult task because Russian authorities don\u2019t compile hate crime data and have not been contributing to the OSCE\u2019s statistics on hate crimes, published annually by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Publication about us<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"admin3","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/admin3\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}