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Hate crime is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for Ukrainian society. Since the beginning of 2018 the number of attacks on representatives of the LGBT community and ethnic groups has increased in Ukraine. Violence done includes a series of pogroms upon Roma camps and the murder of a 24-year-old Roma man \u2013 as well as the systematic disruption of human rights events and peaceful assemblies forgathering on gender and LGBT topics.<\/p>\n
In addition we invite your attention to the indulgent permissive attitude of some representatives of some authorities to outright hate speech \u2013 evidenced by these representatives\u2019 frankly homophobic and discriminatory public statements \u2013 jeopardizing people and communities who are potential objects of xenophobia.<\/p>\n
At the same time some positive changes in law-enforcement have manifested: the\u00a0March for Equality<\/em>\u00a0on the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0of June 2018 was safe. Police submitted notice of suspicion of commitment a crime to the coordinator of nationalist organization \u201c\u042114\u201d after their attack on the Roma camp in Kyiv. Nonetheless, the general situation regarding impunity for hate crimes remains urgent and demands an increase in awareness and adherence to standards of human rights protection. Indeed, permissiveness of active intolerance exacerbates existing problems and contributes to new crimes \u2013 while fueling the atmosphere of fear and aggression in Ukraine that in general is challenging the democratic future of the state. So, it is most important that the Ukrainian government adheres to the centralized policy of combating hate crimes and reforming existing legislation and practice to be in line with non-discrimination standards.<\/p>\n The conference \u201cIntolerance without Responsibility: Hate Speech & Hate Crimes in Ukraine<\/strong>\u201c is devoted to the development of propositions and suggestions for the authorities \u2013 fully anticipating their issuing better future political messages to society on how to regulate the hate crime situation on the legislative level and in practice, the mandatory inclusion of the topic in the national educational process, and raising awareness and informing the broader Ukrainian society.<\/p>\n Although all these policy approaches are currently being questioned by some politicians and some part of populations in the leading democratic countries, we Ukrainian civil society activists and human rights defenders are sure that Ukraine has a bright future comprised of a society that respects every citizen!<\/p>\n We say No to intolerance! YES to tolerance!<\/strong>\u00a0This attitude is the guarantee of all citizens enjoying social progress under the power of our common state, when the state achieves compliance.<\/p>\n Participants to this conference are from vulnerable groups suffering from hate crimes in Ukraine, civil society activists and human rights defenders, mass-media journalists, representatives of Ukrainian authorities and friends and supporters of Ukraine from Europe and North America.<\/p>\n Additional information and program of the conference:\u00a0https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/conference2018Dec\/<\/a><\/p>\n The event is organized by\u00a0LGBT Human Rights Nash Mir Center<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Human Rights Information Center<\/a>\u00a0with the support of the Human Rights Fund of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the British Embassy in Kyiv.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hate crime is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for Ukrainian society. Since the beginning of 2018 the number of attacks on representatives of the LGBT community and ethnic groups has increased in Ukraine. Violence done includes a series of pogroms upon Roma camps and the murder of a 24-year-old Roma man \u2013 as well as the systematic disruption of human rights events and peaceful assemblies forgathering on gender and LGBT topics.
\nIn addition we invite your attention to the indulgent permissive attitude of some representatives of some authorities to outright hate speech \u2013 evidenced by these representatives\u2019 frankly homophobic and discriminatory public statements \u2013 jeopardizing people and communities who are potential objects of xenophobia.
\nAt the same time some positive changes in law-enforcement have manifested: the\u00a0March for Equality\u00a0on the 17th\u00a0of June 2018 was safe. Police submitted notice of suspicion of commitment a crime to the coordinator of nationalist organization \u201c\u042114\u201d after their attack on the Roma camp in Kyiv. Nonetheless, the general situation regarding impunity for hate crimes remains urgent and demands an increase in awareness and adherence to standards of human rights protection. Indeed, permissiveness of active intolerance exacerbates existing problems and contributes to new crimes \u2013 while fueling the atmosphere of fear and aggression in Ukraine that in general is challenging the democratic future of the state. So, it is most important that the Ukrainian government adheres to the centralized policy of combating hate crimes and reforming existing legislation and practice to be in line with non-discrimination standards. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gay.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}