Developing a comprehensive strategy against racism, intolerance and hate crime

Budget: 

HeP: Total: 26,750, Max EU Contribution: 21,400 (80%)

Total: 237,060.64, Max EU Contribution: 189,648.51 (80%)

Financing program: REC-RRAC-HATE-AG-2018

Call: H2020-DS-2016-2017 (Focus Area Digital Security)

Funding body: European Commission - REC

Project partners:  Hellenic Parliament (EPIS) – Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights – Panteio University

Duration: 24 months

The Project entitled «Developing a comprehensive strategy against racism, intolerance and hate crime» is funded by the EU under the REC (Rights, Equality and Citizenship) Programe    “Restricted call for proposals for public authorities on preventing and combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, and in particular hate crime and hate speech”.

The Hellenic Parliament / EPIS participates as a partner together with the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights (Project Leader) and the Panteio University.

The Project has a 2-year duration and aims:

•             To form a comprehensive strategy against racism, intolerance and hate speech.

•             To improve reporting of hate crimes by disseminating hate crime victims’ rights.

•             To raise public awareness.

•            To promote capacity building against racism, intolerance and hate speech for prosecutors, public officers and MPs, as well as targeted communities.                    

•            To induce trust building of targeted communities towards the judiciary and law-enforcement authorities.

•             To effectively prosecute hate crimes.

The Hellenic Parliament will participate in the project through the organization of an international one-day-conference concerning the role of Members of the Parliaments in combatting racism, intolerance, as well as hate speech.

In the one-day conference, Greek MPs from the relevant parliamentary committees will participate. They will also be MPs representing the main parliamentary groups, and speakers from the Hellenic Parliament’s Scientific Service. Apart from the HeP, the involvement of representatives from relevant stakeholders (ministries, universities, etc.) will be examined.

Members of the European Parliament, members of the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly and international experts (e.g. Members of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance – ECRI, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission - JRC and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights – FRA) will participate to the Conference, creating thus a forum for European dialogue.

During the conference, models and mechanisms, which can be applied not only regionally or nationally but also EU widely, will be presented, the participants will exchange views and European best practices on the role of Parliaments, aiming to raise awareness and capacity of MPs, in order to combat racism, intolerance and hate speech.