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FRA’s latest report ‘Encouraging hate crime reporting: the role of law enforcement and other authorities’ highlights the gaps in hate crime reporting across the EU. FRA calls on EU countries to remove barriers that prevent victims and witnesses of hate crimes from coming forward and to encourage reporting. The report illustrates how the social environment and national structures and practices can support efforts to understand and remove existing barriers to reporting hate crime and actively encourage victims to report hate crime and seek justice.
The report highlights what needs to change to move towards a victim-centred approach so victims can get justice:
Millions of people across the EU experience hate-motivated violence and harassment. This can be due to their ethnic or immigration background, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability. FRA’s surveys of immigrants and ethnic minorities, Jews, LGBTI people or Roma and Travellers shed light on the extent of discrimination and violence these groups face in Europe. FRA’s recent Fundamental Rights Survey highlights that some minority groups experience twice as much violence as people generally.
15/7/2021