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Enhancing Community-Law Enforcement Relations in Combating Hate Crimes against Muslims

Meeting

Date:
Location:
Vienna
Organized by:
The Swiss Chairmanship of the OSCE and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Source:
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Fields of work:
Tolerance and non-discrimination

About

The meeting will bring together government officials, law enforcement practitioners, non-governmental organizations and Muslim community representatives. The objectives of the meeting are threefold:

1) Explore the challenges to the security of Muslim communities in the OSCE region, with a particular focus on how to enhance law enforcement - community relations in order to remove barriers to reporting, responding to and preventing hate crimes against Muslims;

2) Exchange views on the role of governments and share good practices of co-operation between authorities and Muslim communities, and

3) Develop a set of recommendations on how to enhance confidence in law enforcement in order to more effectively combat anti-Muslim hate crimes.