At the civil society training event, 27 participants from regions across Italy learned more about the distinctions between hate crime and other related problems, such as discrimination and hate spe

All too often, it hasn’t been, because it has been buried deep within a document the size of a doorstep.

The training introduced the Ombudsman and 25 of his staff to different issues related to the concept of hate crimes, in order to assist them in recognizing and reporting incidents of bias-motivated

The workshop is part of an ODIHR initiative to work with people of African descent and to counter hate crimes and discrimination from a gender perspective.