As part of the project “Improved response to hate speech through legal research, advocacy and training – REASON”, seven meetings were held with important stakeholders relevant to providing responses to hate speech as one of the most severe manifestations of intolerance. At the meetings, the goals of the project, research methodology and research results were presented, as well as evidence-based recommendations for improving the normative framework and practice of prosecuting criminal and misdemeanour hate speech. After the events in July – a meeting with the members of the Working Group for Hate Crime Monitoring at the Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, as well as a presentation and discussion within the session of the Committee for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities of the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia, the series of meetings continued in September. Meetings were held with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Police Academy “Prvi hrvatski redarstvenik”, in the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia, with civil society organizations, judges of the High Misdemeanor Court of the Republic of Croatia, and in the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Digital Transformation of the Republic of Croatia. The legal experts of the project considered the comments and suggestions of the participants of the meetings and revised part of the recommendations based on that series of discussions.
Photographs: meeting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Academy