Croatia

Croatia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Since 2006, Croatia has been implementing ODIHR's Law Enforcement Outreach Programme (LEOP) followed by the updated Training Against Hate Crime for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme. In 2021, the government adopted an inter-agency "Protocol on Monitoring Hate Crimes", establishing state authorities' responsibilities in addressing hate crime and re-creating a dedicated Working Group. In 2021, the Working Group participated in ODIHR's diagnostic workshop to assess national structures and services for hate crime victim support, resulting in a set of ODIHR recommendations to the relevant state authorities. Data on hate crime are regularly published by the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities of the Government.

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2021	101	57	11
2020	87	138	18
2019	48	117	10
2018	33	23	8
2017	25	16	12
2016	35	37	7
2015	24	27	7
2014	22	60	6
2013	35	57	8
2012	17	19	15
2011	57	20	10
2010	34	34	3
2009	32	Not available	Not available

About 2011 Data

Figures includes crimes of incitement to hatred and discrimination.

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National developments

The Working Group for Hate Crime, a multidisciplinary working group supported by the Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, adopted a new Protocol on Hate Crime. This Protocol aims to ensure better co-ordination between all levels of the criminal justice system (police, prosecutors and judges) for responding to and recording hate crimes.

A new criminal code introducing new provisions on hate crime was adopted by Parliament in October 2011, with an effective date of 1 January 2012. While the previous provisions only included a general definition of hate crime that was applied to convictions for bias-motivated crime, the new provisions specifically cite bias motivation as an aggravating circumstance for all crimes, except for specific crimes that already provide for bias motivation in its aggravated form. Those provisions include murder, female genital mutilation, crimes involving bodily injury, sexual assualt, coercion, threats, inciting riots and public incitement to violence and hatred.

KEY OBSERVATION

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Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The UN Human Rights Council encouraged Croatia to continue its efforts to create specially trained police units to investigate hate crimes, which have resulted in an increase in the investigation of hate crimes.