Preventing anti-LGBT hate crimes starts with their proper recognition.
By offering unique insights into anti-LGBT specific hate crime and to the communities impacted by it, this course represents a key tool for civil society organisations and law enforcement who want to build their monitoring and recording capacities, as well as for individual activists who want to deepen their knowledge of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and its impact on victims and society.
This online course offers a dynamic insight into understanding and identifying anti-LGBT hate crime, combining exhaustive theory and challenging exercises to present a victim-centred approach to this specific type of hate crime. The course presents an extensive overview of the most common homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bias indicators and challenge participants to build a list of indicators for their national/local context. It provides a thorough and challenging presentation of the many and multifaceted LGBT communities, and how they can be affected by prejudice and hate crimes.
The course is suitable for all and ideal for police officers and members of civil society organizations who would like to: