Greece: Project Background Documents - vol. 3

Abstract

This National Compilation Paper (NCP) provides information on the implementation in Greece of activities conducted as part of a project to build a comprehensive criminal justice response to hate crime, developed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in partnership with the Ministry of Justice of Greece. The project was designed to foster interagency co-operation on combating hate crime, including on issues such as data collection, and to strengthen institutional capacity to implement an integrated response to hate crime. This paper presents general hate crime trends in Greece, provides practical examples of institutional co-operation to address hate crimes, describes project’s implementation and presents the lessons learned from the project. Its aim is to encourage further ideas on how to strengthen institutional efforts in effectively addressing hate crime, and how to support the work of law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in ensuring victims’ access to redress, while dissuading potential perpetrators from committing hate crimes.