Hate Crime Report Card : Overview / Human Rights First, December 2007
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Michael McClintock ; Paul LeGendre ; Michael Posner ; Alexis Aronowitz ; Jaideep Dargan
"The Human Rights First 2007 Hate Crime Report Card is a review of the implementation of commitments undertaken by the 56 participating states of the OSCE to combat the rising tide of violent hate crimes. Six months ago, Human Rights First released the 2007 Hate Crime Survey, in which we documented and analyzed the reality of racist violence and other forms of intolerance in Europe, Central Asia, and North America. The 2007 Hate Crime Report Card is a companion and follow-up to the survey. It assesses the extent to which governments have responded to the increasing threat violent hate crimes pose to their societies by fulfilling their commitments to establish hate crime monitoring systems and to adopt strong hate crime laws and enforce them. This overview is accompanied by a country-by-country section that looks in more detail at each of the 56 countries under review."