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Gender-based hate crime

Gender-based hate crimes are criminal offences motivated by bias against a person's gender, which means that the offender selected her or his target based on the victim's gender, or demonstrated hostility towards it throughout the attack.
Hate crimes and incidents reported to ODIHR can be motivated by a single bias, in which the target was selected solely due to her or his sex or gender, or by multiple biases, in which bias based on sex intersects with another protected characteristic, such as disability, ethnic origin, race or religion. A number of the incidents reported to ODIHR also include those committed with bias by association against women's organizations, events and individuals.

The OSCE participating States have recognized the importance of addressing equality between men and women and committed themselves to endorse the OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality of 2004. The same year, hate crimes motivated by sex have been mentioned for the first time in the OSCE ministerial council decision.
ODIHR has reported on "sex-based hate crimes" since 2013, changing the name of the category to "gender-based hate crimes" in 2021. The reporting is based on official statistics on sex and gender-based hate crimes submitted by some OSCE participating States. Efforts to form targeted policies to address gender-based hate crimes are hampered by under-reporting. For example, only nine states reported on gender-based hate crimes in 2019. Furthermore, the majority of gender-based hate crime victims do not report their experiences, highlighting the challenge posed by under-recording.

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10 states

Overview of incidents reported by other sources

Violent attacks against people Threats/Harassment Attacks against property Total
11 6 1 18

Date Country Type of incident Source Description
2017-01 Kyrgyzstan Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2017-03 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Silver Rose Association Show info
2017-05 Bosnia and Herzegovina Threats/Harassment Sarajevo Open Center (SOC) Show info
2017-05 Armenia Threats/Harassment Human Rights House Yerevan Show info
2017-05 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Silver Rose Association Show info
2017-05 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Silver Rose Association Show info
2017-07 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment Silver Rose Association Show info
2017-07 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2017-08 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2017-08 Finland Violent attacks against people UNHCR Show info
2017-09 Italy Threats/Harassment Lunaria Show info
2017-09 Austria Attacks against property Dokustelle, SETA Show info
2017-10 Spain Violent attacks against people UNHCR Show info
2017-11 Austria Threats/Harassment Anti-Discrimination Office Styria Show info
2017-11 Ukraine Violent attacks against people LGBT Human Rights NASH SVIT Center Show info
2017-11 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Silver Rose Association Show info
2017-11 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2017-11 Czech Republic Violent attacks against people In IUSTITIA Show info

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Gender-Based Hate Crime
Gender-Based Hate Crime
10 March 2021
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