hate crime legislation
Hate crime legislation refers to laws that provide additional legal protections and enhanced penalties for criminal acts that are motivated by bias, prejudice, or hatred towards a specific group or individual based on their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or other protected characteristics.
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- anti-semitic hate crimes
- combating hate crimes and hate speech
- hate crime prevention
- hate crimes
- hate crimes against christians
- hate crimes against jewish communities
- hate crimes based on religion
- hate crimes motivated by religious beliefs
- hate crimes targeting religious groups
- hate speech
- hate speech targeting jews
- hate-motivated attacks
- legislation against holocaust denial
- racial hatred
- religious hate crimes