Report
OSCE/ODIHR Comments on Draft Amendments to certain Provisions of the Criminal Code of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia regarding Bias-motivated Crimes
These legal comments were prepared in response to a request from the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje received by ODIHR in February 2016.
The Comments consider the draft amendments to be a major improvement compared to the current legal framework for the punishment of bias-motivated crime in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. At the same time, the OSCE/ODIHR provides further guidance on how to bring certain provisions that protect some group characteristics targeted by bias-motivated crimes in line with international standards and good practices throughout the Criminal Code. In the Comments, OSCE/ODIHR has also included recommendations for further improvement, among others, to ensure that actual or perceived association with a group exhibiting such characteristics is also explicitly covered by the draft amendments.
- Date:
- Source:
- OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Publisher:
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Our work:
- Rule of law, Democratization
