The Ministry of the Interior completed a two-year project to combat racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including hate crime and hate speech. The project developed indicators for measuring inter-cultural and community relations, and tested good practices to prevent conflicts and build confidence. Partners from Sweden and Northern Ireland participated in the project. In addition to the framework of indicators, a conference was organized and three publications were drafted: "A Toolkit to Promote Good Relations", "A Report on the Prevention of Xenophobia and Social Risks" and anti-racist material prepared by Sweden. Reports are available in Finnish and Swedish.
A survey concerning discrimination and hate crime targeting Roma was conducted in 2014. The results can be found here.
Official figures record 829 racist and xenophobic hate crimes. Of these, one was a homicide, 461 were physical assaults including three attempted murders, 80 cases of damage to property or vandalism, 33 cases of theft, 132 cases of threats, 38 cases of disturbance of the peace, and 84 other crimes.
The figure presented here covers the following grounds: "race/colour", "ethnicity/national origin, citizenship and language".
Finland reported 71 anti-religious crimes, including 31 physical assaults, eight cases of damage to property/vandalism, 18 cases of threats, three cases of disturbance of domestic peace, four cases of theft and seven other crimes.
Hate crimes reported under this category cover all anti-religious hate crime, without disaggregation by faith.
Official law-enforcement figures recorded 40 hate crimes based on bias against LGBT, including 21 physical assaults, one case of disturbance of the peace, four cases of damage to property, nine cases of threats and five other crimes.
Official data were reported separately for LGB and transgender hate crime but are presented together here.
Official law-enforcement figures recorded 14 cases of crimes based on bias towards people with disabilities, including eight physical assaults, one case of damage to property, two thefts and three cases of threats.
ILGA-Europe and Seta reported two incidents of threats and harassment. One incident involved a gay student who was repeatedly harassed physically and sexually, leading him to attempt to take his own life. In the other incident, two gay men were threatened with a gun.
ODIHR observes that Finland has not reported information on the numbers of prosecuted hate crime cases to ODIHR.