Coalition Against Hate Recognized in U.S. Congress Briefing

Posted November 13th, 2007 by Micah H. Naftalin

The Coalition Against Hate received recognition as UCSJ leaders briefed the congressional joint Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission) both on the coalition, the current status of hate crimes in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the importance of the impunity of hate crimes to assessing rule of law and to the conduct of foreign policy.

UN racism rapporteur Doudou Diene, another witness, concluded, "There is an unmistakable resurgence in racist violence conducted, primarily, but not exclusively, by neo-Nazi groups."

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The full text of the UCSJ Briefing Paper, by myself and Nickolai Butkevich, can be found on UCSJ's website, www.ucsj.org, as can a review of the Briefing in last Friday's Bigotry Monitor, whose lead article begins: "The national holiday President Vladimir Putin invented to replace the one that celebrated the Bolshevik Revolution has become a rostrum for worshiping the Russian state and preaching unity as the citizenry’s first duty."