Whereas hate crime is a malum in se which member nations have a duty to protect their citizens against; and
Whereas the repeal of “The Charter of Civil Rights” has left an ominous silence regarding protections against hate crime;
The World Assembly enacts as follows.
- Any violent or non-violent criminal act against an individual motivated by that individual’s real or perceived holding or lack of an arbitrary and reductive characteristic, including but not limited to ethnicity, gender, race, religion, culture, disability, social background or sexuality, shall be classified as a hate crime in every member nation.
- Where it can be shown, to the same standard otherwise required to show guilt for the relevant act, that an otherwise-criminal act was of the nature criminalised by Section 1, that fact must be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing or other enforcement of the criminalisation of said act. Member nations must prohibit advocacy of violence criminalised by Section 1. Nor may any criminal law in a member nation discriminate in its criminalisation of an act based on a real or perceived arbitrary, reductive characteristic of the victim of that act.