Gender-based hate crime

Gender-based hate crimes are criminal offences motivated by bias against a person's gender, which means that the offender selected her or his target based on the victim's gender, or demonstrated hostility towards it throughout the attack.
Hate crimes and incidents reported to ODIHR can be motivated by a single bias, in which the target was selected solely due to her or his sex or gender, or by multiple biases, in which bias based on sex intersects with another protected characteristic, such as disability, ethnic origin, race or religion. A number of the incidents reported to ODIHR also include those committed with bias by association against women's organizations, events and individuals.

The OSCE participating States have recognized the importance of addressing equality between men and women and committed themselves to endorse the OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality of 2004. The same year, hate crimes motivated by sex have been mentioned for the first time in the OSCE ministerial council decision.
ODIHR has reported on "sex-based hate crimes" since 2013, changing the name of the category to "gender-based hate crimes" in 2021. The reporting is based on official statistics on sex and gender-based hate crimes submitted by some OSCE participating States. Efforts to form targeted policies to address gender-based hate crimes are hampered by under-reporting. For example, only nine states reported on gender-based hate crimes in 2019. Furthermore, the majority of gender-based hate crime victims do not report their experiences, highlighting the challenge posed by under-recording.

TANDIS

Overview of incidents reported by other sources

Violent attacks against people Threats/Harassment Attacks against property Total
41 21 6 68

Date Country Type of incident Source Description
2019 Tajikistan Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-01 Türkiye Violent attacks against people London Legal Group (LLG), Transgender Europe (TGEU) Show info
2019-01 Germany Threats/Harassment Inssan Show info
2019-02 Tajikistan Violent attacks against people Jehovah's Witnesses Show info
2019-02 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-02 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-02 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2019-02 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2019-02 Kyrgyzstan Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-03 Germany Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-03 Ukraine Violent attacks against people LGBT Human Rights NASH SVIT Center Show info
2019-03 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-03 Poland Attacks against property Open Dialog Foundation Show info
2019-03 Germany Violent attacks against people MANEO Show info
2019-03 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-03 Poland Attacks against property "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-03 Austria Violent attacks against people Dokustelle Show info
2019-03 Austria Violent attacks against people Dokustelle Show info
2019-04 Austria Threats/Harassment Anti-Discrimination Office Styria Show info
2019-04 Czech Republic Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-04 Czech Republic Violent attacks against people European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) Show info
2019-04 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association, Open Dialog Foundation Show info
2019-04 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-05 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-05 Germany Attacks against property ezra Show info
2019-05 Kyrgyzstan Violent attacks against people Kyrgyz Indigo, OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-05 Italy Threats/Harassment Association 21 July, OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-05 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-05 Germany Violent attacks against people Munich Chronicle Show info
2019-05 United Kingdom Violent attacks against people International Organization for Migration (IOM), OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-06 Greece Violent attacks against people Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) Show info
2019-06 Poland Threats/Harassment Open Dialog Foundation Show info
2019-06 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-06 Switzerland Violent attacks against people SETA Show info
2019-06 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2019-06 Bosnia and Herzegovina Threats/Harassment OSCE Mission to Bosnia And Herzegovina Show info
2019-06 Czech Republic Threats/Harassment In IUSTITIA Show info
2019-06 Netherlands Violent attacks against people Turkish Forum Netherlands Show info
2019-06 Ireland Threats/Harassment European Network Against Racism - Ireland Show info
2019-06 Azerbaijan Violent attacks against people OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights Show info
2019-07 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-07 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-07 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2019-07 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-07 United Kingdom Violent attacks against people Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) Show info
2019-07 Germany Violent attacks against people Munich Chronicle Show info
2019-07 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2019-07 Kyrgyzstan Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-07 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-07 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Kyrgyz Indigo Show info
2019-08 Russian Federation Threats/Harassment National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-08 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-08 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people "Coming Out" LGBT Group, Russian LGBT Network Show info
2019-08 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-09 Spain Threats/Harassment Observatory for Freedom of Religion and Conscience (OLRC), SETA, Union of Islamic Communities of Spain Show info
2019-09 Ukraine Violent attacks against people Women Association Sphere NGO Show info
2019-09 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2019-09 Poland Violent attacks against people "Never Again" Association Show info
2019-10 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-10 Hungary Violent attacks against people Hungarian Helsinki Committee Show info
2019-11 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-11 Germany Violent attacks against people SETA Show info
2019-11 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-11 Italy Violent attacks against people Lunaria Show info
2019-12 Russian Federation Violent attacks against people National Forum of Sex Workers in Russia Show info
2019-12 Kyrgyzstan Threats/Harassment Shah Ayim Network Show info
2019-12 Armenia Violent attacks against people Pink Armenia Show info
2019-12 United States of America Attacks against property Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Show info

International Reports

Czech Republic

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published relevant recommendations in its "Sixth report on the Czech Republic."

Georgia

The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) published relevant recommendations in its "Report from the Thirty-seventh session: Compilation on Georgia."