North Macedonia

North Macedonia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. North Macedonia implemented ODIHR's Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) Programme in 2014, training more than 2,000 police officers under the programme by 2018. Following changes to the hate crime provisions in 2018, a refresher training-of-trainers session for police was conducted by ODIHR in December 2021. North Macedonia implemented ODIHR's Prosecutors and Hate Crime Training (PAHCT) programme in 2019, and in 2022 completed a training on hate crimes for the judiciary together with the OSCE Mission to Skopje.

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Download the 2018 hate crime report for North Macedonia

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	41	Not available	Not available
2022	54	Not available	Not available
2021	22	125	Not available
2020	29	Not available	Not available
2019	23	-	-
2018	33	-	-
2017	Not available	Not available	Not available
2016	2	-	-
2015	5	3	2
2014	Not available	Not available	Not available
2013	Not available	Not available	Not available
2012	Not available	Not available	Not available
2011	Not available	Not available	Not available
2010	Not available	Not available	Not available
2009	Not available	Not available	Not available

About 2018 Data

Figures include cases of incitement to hatred, threats and attacks due to political affiliation, which may fall outside of the OSCE's hate crime definition.

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National developments

Amendments to the Criminal Code have been adopted, including a hate crime definition, the introduction of specific penalty enhancing provisions for a number of offences and updates to the aggravating circumstance provision applicable to all offences in the Code.

The Ministry of Interior's Unit for Criminal Intelligence and Analysis has begun keeping monthly records of hate crimes.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of North Macedonia have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY CIVIL SOCIETY

Total Incidents
Targeted properties
Type of property attacks

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

Date	Type of incident	Source	Description
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-08	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-08	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-08	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-09	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-04	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-06	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-07	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-07	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-07	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-07	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-07	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-08	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-08	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-09	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-09	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-12	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-05	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-01	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-01	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje SETA	Show info
2018-09	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-02	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-09	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-01	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-11	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-03	Violent attacks against people	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info

Anti-Muslim hate crime

Date	Type of incident	Source	Description
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info
2018-10	Attacks against property	SETA	Show info

Anti-Christian hate crime

Date	Type of incident	Source	Description
2018-03	Attacks against property	Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (MHC) OSCE Mission to Skopje	Show info

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers published relevant recommendations in its "Resolution on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by the Republic of North Macedonia."