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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) commented on the need to better address racist crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, France, Georgia, Poland, Spain, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.

The UN Human Rights Council, in its Universal Periodic Review, noted the need for states to strengthen measures to prevent, investigate and punish hate crimes, especially acts of violence against migrants.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) continued to examine cases that involved the obligation of states to take reasonable steps to investigate bias motivation where there is an indication that it has played a role in the commission of violent crime. In several cases in  2010, the Court declined to rule that states had failed to properly investigate possible bias motivation, noting that in these cases either the applicant had not raised the issue properly before domestic courts or before the ECHR, or that there was insufficient indication that racial bias motivated the violations.

In a number of speeches, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights discussed the problem of widespread racism and discrimination against Roma across Europe.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published a report on manifestations of anti-Semitism in the EU, covering statistical data from 2001 to 2009.

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the recommendation “Measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity”. Particular attention is placed in the recommendation on ensuring an effective criminal-justice response in combating hate crimes. This includes increasing punishment through sentencing provisions for crimes with aggravating circumstances, and improving victim support and data recording in cases of anti-LGBT hate crime.

The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly adopted Resolution 1728 (2010), which endorsed the Committee of Ministers Recommendation to combat discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity and called on member states to take implementing action.489 The Parliamentary Assembly also adopted Recommendation 1915(2010), encouraging the Committee of Ministers, inter alia, to monitor the implementation of CM/Rec(2010)5 in member states.