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.

TANDIS

Overview of incidents reported by other sources

Violent attacks against people Threats/Harassment Attacks against property Total
35 29 7 71

Date Country Type of incident Source Description
2021 Armenia Violent attacks against people Pink Armenia Show info
2021 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people SOVA Center Show info
2021-01 Bosnia and Herzegovina Threats/Harassment OSCE Mission to Bosnia And Herzegovina Show info
2021-01 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-01 Spain Violent attacks against people Union of Islamic Communities of Spain Show info
2021-02 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-02 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-02 Poland Threats/Harassment "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-02 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-02 United Kingdom Threats/Harassment Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) Show info
2021-02 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-02 Poland Threats/Harassment "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-02 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-03 Georgia Violent attacks against people Equality Movement Show info
2021-03 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2021-03 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-03 Poland Threats/Harassment OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-03 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-03 Poland Threats/Harassment "Never Again" Association, OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-03 Austria Threats/Harassment ZARA Show info
2021-03 United States of America Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-03 North Macedonia Threats/Harassment Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Skopje, OSCE Mission to Skopje Show info
2021-03 Ukraine Violent attacks against people LGBT Human Rights NASH SVIT Center Show info
2021-04 Croatia Threats/Harassment Croatian civil society coalition Show info
2021-04 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-04 Netherlands Threats/Harassment Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI) Show info
2021-04 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-04 Austria Threats/Harassment ZARA Show info
2021-05 Armenia Violent attacks against people "Right Side" Human Rights Defender NGO Show info
2021-05 Spain Violent attacks against people Union of Islamic Communities of Spain Show info
2021-05 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-05 United States of America Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-05 Netherlands Threats/Harassment Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI) Show info
2021-05 United Kingdom Violent attacks against people Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) Show info
2021-05 Kazakhstan Violent attacks against people Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita" Show info
2021-05 Germany Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-06 United States of America Threats/Harassment Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Show info
2021-06 Bosnia and Herzegovina Threats/Harassment OSCE Mission to Bosnia And Herzegovina Show info
2021-07 Italy Threats/Harassment Gay Center/Gay Helpline Show info
2021-07 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-07 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-07 Netherlands Threats/Harassment Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI) Show info
2021-07 Austria Threats/Harassment Anti-Discrimination Office Styria Show info
2021-07 Kazakhstan Violent attacks against people Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita" Show info
2021-07 Türkiye Violent attacks against people Human Rights Association Show info
2021-08 Italy Violent attacks against people Gay Center/Gay Helpline Show info
2021-08 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-08 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2021-08 Kyrgyzstan Violent attacks against people Labrys Kyrgyzstan Show info
2021-08 Georgia Violent attacks against people Women's Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) Show info
2021-08 United Kingdom Threats/Harassment Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) Show info
2021-08 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-08 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-09 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-09 Spain Attacks against property Union of Islamic Communities of Spain Show info
2021-09 Netherlands Attacks against property Israel Information and Documentation Centre (CIDI) Show info
2021-09 Poland Threats/Harassment "Never Again" Association Show info
2021-09 Spain Threats/Harassment Observatory for Freedom of Religion and Conscience (OLRC), Union of Islamic Communities of Spain Show info
2021-10 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-10 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-10 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-11 United States of America Violent attacks against people Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Show info
2021-11 Germany Attacks against property OIDAC Show info
2021-11 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-11 Kazakhstan Violent attacks against people Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative "Feminita" Show info
2021-12 United States of America Threats/Harassment Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Show info
2021-12 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-12 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-12 United Kingdom Threats/Harassment Islamophobia Response Unit (IRU) Show info
2021-12 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2021-12 Austria Threats/Harassment ZARA Show info

International Reports

Estonia

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published relevant recommendations in its "ECRI report on Estonia (sixth monitoring cycle)".

France

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published relevant recommendations in its "ECRI report on France (sixth monitoring cycle)".

Montenegro

The European Union published relevant recommendations in its report from the "Eleventh meeting of the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Council (Podgorica, 14 July 2022)".