Hate crimes in the Republic of Macedonia in 2016

This report is the outcome of the “Enabling effective response against Hate Crime and Hate Speech” project which was fi nancially supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, and was conducted in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2016. The Project’s overall goal was to contribute to the development of effective and sustainable rule of law mechanisms and a legal system that protects the rights of all citizens. To that end, the OSCE continued to assist the national stakeholders in adopting and implementing the designed improvements to the hate crime and hate speech legislation, advanced the capacities of relevant institutions and civil society organizations to tackle these phenomena, raised greater awareness among the general and the expert public on the consequences of bias incidents, and expanded the regional academic exchange.