“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
FRA is hosting the annual Fundamental Rights Conference "Combating Hate Crime in the EU: Giving Victims a Face and a Voice" in Vilnius on 12-13 November.
Europe’s socio-economic crisis has proved fertile ground for prejudice and, in some cases, violence against the most vulnerable groups of our society, such as Roma, migrants, and ethnic and religious minorities. Evidence collected by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and other organisations shows that hate crime is a daily reality throughout the EU. Motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance or by bias against a person’s disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, such crimes harm not only those targeted but entire communities. They thus strike at the heart of EU’s commitments to democracy and the fundamental rights of equality and non-discrimination.
The Fundamental Rights Conference will invite over 300 decision makers and practitioners from across the EU to explore effective strategies to combat hate crime through legal and policy measures at the national as well as EU level.
The Fundamental Rights Conference (FRC) is a high level annual event, organized by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). This year’s conference will focus on the issue of "Combating hate crime in the EU" and will be hosted in cooperation with the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
The conference will aim to:
For more information: http://fra.europa.eu/en/event/2013/fundamental-rights-conference-2013