--- title: Global Crises Are Overshadowing Hate Crimes description: The Anti-Defamation League and Human Rights First grade 57 OSCE countries on their efforts to track and address hate crimes—and many fail canonical: https://time.com/4318817/hate-crimes/ author: Jonathan A. Greenblatt article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-05T17:06:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:49:51.199Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Global Crises Are Overshadowing Hate Crimes og:description: The lack of action is unacceptable og:url: https://time.com/4318817/hate-crimes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3127cd4694fe95dc/698892095f570fa307b20cb2/asad-shah-hate-crime-glasgow.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: A police officer stands outside the shop where Asad Shah worked in Glasgow, Saturday March 26, 2016. 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Ben Rattray, founder of Change.org, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a documentary filmmaker, sit down and discuss starting transformation around the world._ by [Jonathan A. Greenblatt](https://time.com/author/jonathan-a-greenblatt/) and [Elisa Massimino](https://time.com/author/elisa-massimino/) May 5, 2016 5:06 PM UTC  A police officer stands outside the shop where Asad Shah worked in Glasgow on March 26, 2016\. Scottish police say the killing of a Muslim shopkeeper who wished Christians a happy Easter is being investigated as “religiously prejudiced.” A police officer stands outside the shop where Asad Shah worked in Glasgow on March 26, 2016\. Scottish police say the killing of a Muslim shopkeeper who wished Christians a happy Easter is being investigated as “religiously prejudiced.” John Linton—AP by [Jonathan A. Greenblatt](https://time.com/author/jonathan-a-greenblatt/) and [Elisa Massimino](https://time.com/author/elisa-massimino/) May 5, 2016 5:06 PM UTC In the shadows of global crises, it’s a sad fact of everyday life that people around the world are routinely attacked, threatened or intimidated simply because of who they are or what they believe. In addition to the impact on individuals, these attacks, left unchecked, metastasize and grow—sometimes to crises. Governments can and should do much more to document, prevent and punish these bias-motivated crimes. Hate crimes have a uniquely devastating emotional and psychological impact; they terrorize not only the direct victims, but entire communities. When employees of a Kosher deli in Copenhagen came to work last April to find [broken glass and the word “Jødesvin,” (Jewish pig)](http://www.thelocal.dk/20150409/jewish-store-vandalised-in-copenhagen) written on the wall, a whole community was threatened. When, in December, a man [beat a Muslim storeowner in Queens in broad daylight](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-hate-crime%5Fus%5F56688092e4b0f290e5219dd7), declaring, “I kill Muslims,” other Muslims and people perceived as Muslims feared for their safety. These crimes reflect the persistence—and in some cases, the resurgence—of xenophobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry in Europe and the U.S. In Europe, the increasing strength of both far-right political parties and Islamist extremists has created a dangerous environment for minorities. Antisemitism is the virulent thread linking the ideologies of these groups, and each is exploiting the refugee crisis for their own purposes. Far-right parties use it to stir up hatred against Muslims and immigrants; Islamist extremists cite this hostility as proof that Muslims have no place in the West to fuel recruitment to their ranks. And in many parts of Europe, other groups—such as [Roma](http://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-roma-and-sinti) and [LGBT](http://www.ilga-europe.org/what-we-do/our-advocacy-work/hate-crime-hate-speech) people—are frequent targets of violent hate crimes. The world’s largest regional security organization, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is a [leader in addressing this problem](http://hatecrime.osce.org/). It collects data from governments and nonprofit organizations on hate crimes across its 57 member states, including Russia and the U.S. Every year, the Anti-Defamation League and Human Rights First team up to grade OSCE countries on their efforts to track and address hate crimes. The verdict? Despite their arsenal of [commitments](http://tandis.odihr.pl/?p=qu-os,dec), [training programs](http://hatecrime.osce.org/infocus/2014-hate-crime-data-now-available) and [tools](http://tandis.odihr.pl/?p=ki-hc,tools), most OSCE countries are failing to respond adequately to hate crimes, leaving minority communities in danger. Bias-motivated attacks are difficult to track. But statistics suggest that once [every 90 minutes in the U.S.](http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/hate-crimes/adl-welcomes-fbi-hate-crime.html#.Vytn-YRGeoM) someone—or some business or institution—is attacked because of personal characteristics; in the E.U., with a much larger population, the frequency is even higher. For many LGBT people, Muslims, Roma, Sinti, Jews and other vulnerable communities in the OSCE region, avoiding violence and harassment informs daily lives. Commitments to human dignity and fundamental rights ring hollow without action to confront this problem. Even in countries where governments are taking significant action, such as France, Germany and the U.K., Muslims face restrictions on their right to wear headscarves in public spaces, and harassment is so prevalent that [some Jews question whether it is safe to wear a kippah](http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/French-lawmakers-wear-kippah-to-parliament-following-Jews-stabbing-441643) in public. Given the severity of this problem, the lack of serious commitment from many OSCE countries is an astonishing dereliction. While 52 of the 57 countries have a hate crime law or sentencing-enhancement law on the books, only about half report more than one hate crime per year. [Even fewer countries report specific data](http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/scorecard-hate-crime-response-osce-region)—the type of crime, the target or whether the perpetrator is punished. Even more troubling, 21 governments didn’t collect any data at all. NGOs, with virtually no resources or reach, report a [vastly more disturbing picture](http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/scorecard-hate-crime-response-osce-region). This is unacceptable. Without comprehensive information about the nature and magnitude of hate crime, efforts to combat it will be hobbled, at best. While the problem of underreporting and incomplete hate crimes laws is not unique to Europe, and [the U.S. faces its own challenges](http://www.adl.org/civil-rights/m/50statesagainsthate/?referrer=https://www.google.com/#.VwZ66fkrJpg) in extending fully inclusive hate crimes laws to all 50 states, for the sake of their citizens and societies, European governments should make good on their own commitments to combat hate crime. Tracking the problem is an essential first step. Hate crimes are corrosive. Left unaddressed, they lead to broader society breakdown and increased violence. Communities and individuals victimized by bias-motivated violence shouldn’t be left to fend for themselves. Advocates of equality everywhere should demand that governments take hate crimes seriously. We all have a stake in building societies that are intolerant of intolerance. ## Transcript Individual people can't just start an individual campaign, [ CROSSTALK ] but spark a movement. Change. org. What is change. org? The ease with which we can enable people to participate in change as a feature, not a buck. My name is Ben Rattray, founder in. Of change. org. My name is Sharmeen Obaid- Chinoy, I'm a documentary film- maker, and my recent film just won an Academy Award this year. This is what happens when determined women get together. I feel like our role is just to spark this conversation. If we can get a country to talk about an issue that they otherwise were not talking about that's where we are most successful. [ MUSIC ] So, you didn't want to obviously start Change. org when you were ten years old. What did you want to do? I wanted to be an investment banker. My god. And it didn't change for me until my senior year I stand for it and I go home for winter holiday and I talk to one of my younger brother who comes out as gay. Total unexpected to me and then he says the things that transformed my life he says, the things that was most painful about being a closeted gay American at the time weren't the people that were explicitly anti- gay but those who refuse to stand up and speak out against them. Than. People like me when I was more ashamed than, than I ever had been before. And it was the first in that cause me the really deeper fact than what I wanted to do with my life. Somebody you know credited documentary film about your life. And I gonna find the biggest laborers or interventions that made you who do first Saying you are because you are quite remarkable. What are those big interventions? When I was very young I used to go to school through a neighborhood that was relatively poor. And I would look at the children on the streets and I would wonder why I was in a car and they were on the street. And very early on I realized that it had nothing to do with me, it was a luck of the draw. That I could have just as easily been out in the street and they could have been in the car. I could have been born in Pakistan but born into a family that didn't value women's education. I could have been married off when I was 15, 16- years- old. And so I used to be very angry when I was young. And my mother told me very early on that I should channel my anger in writing. And so I started writing. I was 17 and I did this big expose which landed me into a lot of trouble and My name was spray painted with profanities across my gate. I came from a progressive family. But, my father was also a very protective man. The morning that he went out, and saw my name Spray- painted with all of these profanities. He said I don't know what you've gone and done, but they have spray- painted your name and then he stopped. I half- expected him to say stop writing. And instead he said something to me that has really always stayed with me. He said that if you speak the truth, I will stand with you and so will the world. That's the one thing that I think is remarkable, is that It's only when you're creating change that one receives immense backlash. People in power don't care when the things we're doing aren't having an effect. And so it's almost the case that when you see negative reaction, either in masses or by elites That you actually know that you're having an impact. Do you ever think that the work that you do might take people away from being active participants and just becoming kind of keyboard warriors? Early on Time when we, about five years ago, this [ INAUDIBLE ] disparaging work, slacktivism as if people are taking action online and because of that it absolves them the feeling of civic responsibility, necessary to drive them to go offline. The reality is all that, that indicates and all our experiences. That there's a ladder of engagement, that the best way to get people engaged early on in issues actually providing not difficult means of onboarding but actually the easiest way to first get engage and sometimes signing a petition, it's a beginning and not the end of one's experience. The ease with which we can enable people to participate in change is Feature not a bug. One of the things as a filmmaker, sometimes people say well, they have a tremendous amount of activists who've been working on this for decades. Now you've just come in and done one film and gone off. I feel like our role is just to spark that conversation. If we can get a country to talk about an issue that they're otherwise would not talking about and had those activists Kind of find something that will help them get to the next stage. I feel like that's where we are most successful. Here are the nominees for best documentary, short subject. Everybody who reads the Academy Awards, the pundits all 22 of them said I wasn't gonna win, so I took my mother to walk the red carpet with me. I had a baby recently and I haven't been able to wear high heel shoes after that, so I took of my shoes and I was wearing flip- flops, and my mother kept saying, you know your Time is gonna be, they're gonna be calling your category very soon. And I was like no mom, I'm not winning, don't worry about it. So, I'm wearing flip- flops. [ LAUGH ] And then my category announcement time comes. And before I could say the next thing, they'd called up my name. A Girl in the River, the Prize of Forgiveness. And so I went on stage to accept my academy award wearing flip- flops. My mother. She's like who asked for Flops to accept the Academy Awards? And I was like, I didn't think I was gonna win. 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