{"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":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[434],"strategy_cases":[],"campaign":[],"archive":[],"filter-content":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-about-us","tag-cerd"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t