This brochure intends to make a distinction between freedom of expression and hate speech, both from a terminology and a legal point of view, as well as to differentiate them from other related concepts, such as defamation and insult.
This report, produced by the SPMU, provides an overview of the sessions of the workshop that took place in Tashkent on 14-15 May 2008 as well as recommendations by the participants. Building capacity of national criminal justice systems in Central Asia and improving cooperation and information exchange between investigative agencies and central authorities were the aims of this workshop.
This memorandum was signed in the framework of the project "Promoting the improvement of training for law enforcement officers in the Police Academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan" on 16 May 2007 and prolonged on 19 May 2009.
This report contains the main findings of the workshop, implemented in co-operation with the Government of Greece, Hellenic Presidency of the European Union, in Athens on 11-12 June 2014, represented the closing activity of this joint IOM-OSCE-UNODC project on Strengthening Understanding of the Link between Irregular Migration and Transnational Crimes Impacting Migrants in Irregular Situation