MS | Institution | Year | TITLE | FOCUS | GROUPS | Key findings - Short summary | |
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom | OSCE/ODIHR | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe / Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights | 2013 |
OSCE/ODIHR Hate Crime Reporting Bias Against Muslims |
Hate crime, Incitement to hatred or violence, Racism & xenophobia | Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers |
The information ODIHR gathers is provided by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations. The data demonstrate clearly that hate crimes remained a pervasive and important challenge in 2013. |
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Austria |
ZARA | Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit |
2014 |
ZARA (Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit) (2014) Racism Report 2014. Individual case report about racist attacks and structures in Austria, Vienna, |
Racism & xenophobia | Migrants |
In 2014, ZARA documented all together 794 racist incidents. 19% of these incidents concern access to goods and services, 17% the internet, 20% public sphere, 8% employment and entrepreneurship, 7% the police, 8% politics and media, 6% other authorities, 8% smearing and 7% of these incidents concern attacks against anti-racism-work. |
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Austria | Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism | Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung | 2014 | Federal Ministry of the Interior, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (Bundesministerium für Inneres, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung) (2014), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht), Vienna | Hate crime | Right-wing extremists |
In 2014, the Austrian security authorities registered a total of 750 right-wing extremist, xenophobic/racist, Islamophobic, or other criminal acts. In connection with the criminal offences mentioned, 1,201 offences were reported in Austria in 2014. Compared to 2013, in 2014 the activities of an Islamophobic movement consisting of younger neo-Nazis and persons coming from student and fraternity environments significantly increased. In its propaganda this movement focussed on the “identity of its own people”. Their declar4ed intention is to protect the respective country, if not “Europe as a whole“, against “Islamisation“ and mass immigration. |
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom | OSCE/ODIHR | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe / Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights | 2014 |
OSCE/ODIHR Hate Crime Reporting Bias Against Muslims |
Hate crime, Incitement to hatred or violence, Racism & xenophobia | Muslims, Migrants, Refugees & asylum seekers |
Forty-three participating States submitted hate crime information for 2014, 17 of which provided detailed statistics in accordance with the bias motivations on which ODIHR reports. In addition, 122 civil society groups have submitted information on incidents in 46 countries. This information is supplemented by data submitted by seven OSCE field operations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). |
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom | FRA | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights | 2014 | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Compendium of practices for combating hate crime, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna. | Hate crime | Muslims, Migrants, Ethnic minorities, People of African descent & Black Europeans, Religious minorities, People with migrant background, LGBTI |
In response to the Council conclusions on combating hate crime in the European Union, which invited EU Member States to take appropriate measures for increasing the reporting of hate crimes by victims, FRA established the Working Party on Improving Reporting and Recording of Hate Crime in the EU. The Working Party brings together all 28 EU Member States as well as the European Commission, the Council of Europe’s Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and FRA. |
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Austria | Prenner, S. | 2015 | Prenner, S., Marketagent.com - Digitale Markt- und Meinungsforschung (2015), Refugee Report. Österreich zwischen Hilfsbereitschaft und Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Wien, | Racism & xenophobia | General population |
Eight out of ten respondents are worried about the current influx of refugees. 87% perceive the distribution of refugees in Europe as unfair. 66% of the respondents aged between 60 and 69 and 38% of the respondents aged between 14 and 19 fear that the refugee-influx situation leads to an increased Islamisation. 19% would have a positive attitude towards a refugee camp in their neighbourhood and 45% would have a negative attitude towards it. The Freedom Party is first ranking when it comes to the question which party is the best to develop a suitable concept in dealing with refugees (24% selected this party). 41% are strongly in favour of border controls in Austria. 46% of all respondents are in favour of stronger controls and deleting of xenophobic postings in social media |
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Austria | Austria, Magistratsabteilung | 2015 | Scheitz, T., Schnell, P., Nik Nafs, C., Güngör, K., Riffer, F. Think difference - Büro für Gesellschaft, Organisation und Entwicklung (2015), Adolescents in open youth work. Identities, life situations and devaluating attitudes (Jugendliche in der offenen Jugendarbeit. Identitäten, Lebenslagen und abwertende Einstellungen),Vienna, Magistratsabteilung 13 der Stadt Wien | Public perceptions & attitudes | General population |
The majority of the respondents do report either no or less experiences of discrimination. However, devaluing of religious belief has been reported frequently by the respondents. Furthermore, the reported fear that the religion is devalued are great among the respondents. |
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Austria | ECRI | European Commission against Racism and Intolerance | Council of Europe | 2015 | ECRI Report,(fifth monitoring cycle). Published on 13 October 2015 | Racism & xenophobia, Discrimination, Hate crime | Muslims, Migrants, People with migrant background |
The Austrian Police reports on hate crime referring to the statistics in the report on the Protection of the Constitution. In 2013, 574 acts committed with bias motivations were recorded (2012:519). 10.6% of these were classified as racist motivations were recorded (2012: 519). 10.6% of these were classified as racist and xenophobic (2012: 11.4%), 6.5% as anti-Semitic (2012: 5.2%), 2.1% as Islampohobic (2012: 0.8%), and 64.6% as right-wing extremist (2012: 56.4%). |
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Austria | Austria, Meinungsraum Institut | 2015 | Meinungsraum Institut (2015), Stocktaking the tolerance limit of Austrians (Die Toleranzgrenze der Österreicherinnen und Österreicher – eine Bestandsaufnahme) Vienna, Mauthausen Komitee Österreichf | Public perceptions & attitudes | General population |
The tolerance towards different ethnic origins is high: 82 percent of respondents have no problem being treated by a Black dentist, 79% have no problem being treated by a Turkish doctor in hospital. These high tolerance-rates are also true for those older than 60 years. Howver, tolerance related to religion is the lowest recorded in the survey: 65% perceive it problematic if a family member would convert to Islam, 64% would have a problem with a Mosque in the neighbourhood but only 42% would have a problem with a Buddhist centre in the neighbourhood. Women are more tolerant than men, particularly men in occupational age are less tolerant than the average. |
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Austria | Seidl, C. | 2015 | Seidl, C. (2015), Every second perceives Islam as danger for the culture of Austria (Jeder Zweite sieht Islam als Gefahr für Österreichs Kultur), Linzer Market-Institut im Auftrag des STANDARD, 9 January 2015 | Public perceptions & attitudes | General population |
Half of the Austrian eligible voters state that they do not know a lot about the Islam. Older respondents and voters of the Socio-democratic and the Green Party are more likely to confess that they do know too less about Islam than respondents under 30 and voters of right wing parties. Half of the respondents assume that the Islam wants to change the Austrian society. Also half of the respondents agree that the Islam constitutes a risk for the Austrian society. 45% believe that the Islam has too much influence in Austria. This share is larger among supporters of right-wing parties. 65% of respondents believe that the way how Muslims dress and behave annoys most of the Austrians. |
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