“Action Day – In Support of Victims of Hate Crime” – 22 July

Years that this action day was marked: 2013, 2016, 2017.

Description: This Action Day aimed to mobilise young people to speak up and take action against hate crime, as well as show solidarity and support for the victims of hate crime. A collection of various materials can be found in this resource, such as video messages, blog posts, local initiatives, statistics, and so on.

The Action Days mobilise the national campaigns and European partners of the No Hate Speech Movement in joint activities on specific forms or targets of hate speech. Each Action Day has a programme of activities prepared in co-operation with the national campaign co-ordinators, online activists and campaign partners.

Multimedia content:

• Flickr album: 22 Reasons why. Action Day for Victims of Hate Crimes - 22 July 22 reasons why we should take action about hate crimes.
• Video message by Council of Europe’s Secretary General “Hate crime cannot be tolerated”
• Video: 22 July - Video message of Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Video: European Action Day for Victims of Hate Crime - 22 July
• Video: Interview with Anne Brasseur on the European Day for Victims of Hate Crime.
• Video: European Day for Victims of Hate Crime

Other materials:

• Concept note (2013)
• Concept note (2016)
• Action Day guide
• Concept note (2017)
• Report of the Action Day (2016)
• Call for the Law to protect victims of hate crime in Spain
• Blog post “hate crime stories”
• Blog post “Do not let hate blur us out: Albanian youth marked the European Day for the Victims of Hate Crime”
• Blog post “We were just “victims”, victims of a hate crime”
• Statistics of Hate Crime in Europe (infographic)
• Blog post “Hate crime against people with disabilities”
• Interactive website for reporting hate crimes and hate speech incidents in ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’