Letter to Minister of Justice for Italy: Inaugural meeting of the Working Party on Hate Crime

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Andrea Orlando, Minister of Justice for Italy

Cc: Gian Ludovico de Martino di Montegiordano, President of the Italian Inter-ministerial Human Rights Committee (CIDU) hosting the meeting Vu0115ra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, European Commission Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President in charge of Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, European Commission

03/11/2014 – While Amnesty International welcomes the continued attention given to hate crime by EU member states, we are concerned that relevant discussions and conferences have not been followed-up with any commitments to take action at EU level. We believe that the working party should serve to promote much needed new steps in EU policy-making on hate crime.

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