Project Title: STAND UP “Standing Up Against Hate, Discrimination and Intolerance in the EU”
Donor: European Commission, Directorate-General Justice and Consumers
Coordinator: Prosecutor Office of Trento, Italy
Partners: European Public Law Organization (Greece), National Commission for Human Rights (Greece), Fundacion Euroarabe De Altos Estudios –FUNDEA (Spain), Prosecutors’ Office of Venice (Italy), Fondazione Agenfor International (Italy), Association Des Agences De La Democratie Locale - AADL(France).
Project starting date: 01/2022
Project duration: 24 months
Countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, France
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
The Stand Up project aims to establish a public authority-led, multi-agency model for countering hate crime.
The specific objectives of the project are:
- Enhance multi-agency cooperation in countering hate crime by establishing harmonized definitions of hate crime, embedded within a blueprint framework for cooperation
- Standardize reporting procedures through the co-design and validation of a reporting forms for law enforcement agencies and CSOs/NGOs
- Deepen relevant actors’ understanding of the phenomena of hate speech and hate crime, including the sentiments behind them on a local level through enhanced monitoring tools and skills.
- Strengthen victim support through awareness and skills on “sensitive investigation” and prosecution through which “victims are recognized and treated in a respectful, sensitive, tailored, professional and non-discriminatory manner”
- Design and implement training for CSOs, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), and prosecutors and judges on reporting, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing (RIPP) hate crimes and discrimination, with parallel victim support.
ACTIVITIES
- Organizing inter-agency focus groups on hate monitoring mechanisms involving members of relevant CSOs, specialized lawyers, judges, and local police
- Organizing national webinars to promote adoption of OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) led multi-agency hate monitoring mechanism and present how outputs can support the work of public authorities and CSOs.
- Conducting Pan-EU research on current reporting procedures for hate crime, based on desk-based research and Pan-European surveys for law enforcement and CSOs based on the existing procedures for reporting methods, data collection & data sharing
- Creating a victim support handbook for public authorities (in particular for LEAs and judicial bodies)
- Design and implement training for CSOs, LEAs, and prosecutors and judges on reporting, investigating, prosecuting, and preventing (RIPP) hate crimes and discrimination, with parallel victim support
- Dissemination activities and publications
