tgeu Monitoring transphobic incidents Guidelines Guidelines Hate crimes: Provide the location where the incident Categorise the location where the Actions that are crimes according to the national criminal law in most European countries. took place. You can be specific, giving incident took place. the exact place (for instance if you aim to Category draw a map with locations to be avoided Entry after Pride marches, using former loca- Select from the predefined categories. If tions of incidents), or you can just choose the location is not on the list, specify the a county and region if you don’t wish to re- type of location. veal the identity of the victim (in the case of a small village where only one trans per- Examples son is known to the community, e.g.). Restaurant, bar, club Subcategory Homicide (murder) Extreme physical violence • Any attack on a person that causes loss of life. Serious bodily harm • Any attack on a person that potentially causes serious physical harm. • Any attack on property, for example by arson or petrol bombs, where there is the potential for people in the property to be killed, for instance if the building is inhabited or occupied at the time of the attack. • Bombs, including letter bombs. This includes any viable device that either detonates or is defused, and therefore was lifethreatening. It also includes any device that is assessed to have been intended by its sender to be viable, even if after analysis it is found that it was incorrectly constructed and therefore would not have gone off. • Kidnapping. • Shooting. • Attack with weapon or any other object that can be used to harm. Sexual assault • An act of sexual violence can be committed by the victim’s partner (married or not), previous partner, family member or co-habitant. • Rape • Sexual assault • Sexual exploitation by a helping professional, i.e. sexual contact of any kind between a helping professional (doctor, therapist, caregiver, teacher, priest, professor, police officer, lawyer, etc.) and a client/patient. • Sexual harassment, including unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Entry Search for your location using a location name or latitude, longitude coordinates (format: 38.19, 85.61), or click on the map to pinpoint the correct location. The type of incident that took place. Examples Szeged, Hungary Guidelines Classify the incident according the following tables. If multiple violations took place, select all of them. Note that all hate crimes involve a hate and bias motive towards a group; therefore, if you choose any of them, you don’t have to indicate The type of location of the incident discrimination as well.14 (e.g. Internet, prison, public space, etc.). 20 14) The tables describing the different categories of hate crimes, hate speech and discrimination are adapted from • The Facing Facts! Project’s Monitoring Guidelines (available in various languages): http://www.ceji.org/facingfacts/?page_id=411 • ILGA-Europe’s human-rights documentation tools: http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/ how_we_work/developing/resources_on_capacity_building/tools Assault Description • Any physical attack against a person or people that does not pose a threat to their life and is not serious. This would include lower-level assaults. • Attempted assault that fails, due to self-defence, or if the victim runs away. • Throwing of objects at a person or people, including where the object misses its target. 21