A/HRC/25/34 different religious organizations and national traditions without demonstrating his own religious preferences”. 91. Ukraine reported that the commission of the acts enumerated in article 161 of the Criminal Code (“violation of citizens equality on the grounds of their race, nationality or religion”) was considered as an aggravating circumstance and gave rise to more severe penalties. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 92. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland indicated that 1,621 religious hate crimes had been reported to the police in 2011-12, which comprised 4 per cent of the total reported hate crimes. It explained that the general underreporting of hate crime was partly due to reluctance to go to the police directly. It also reported that 566 religiously aggravated offences were prosecuted in 2010-11, of which 472 (83 per cent) resulted in successful outcomes. That constituted a 94.2 per cent increase in convictions compared to the previous year. 93. Religiously aggravated offences were defined in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Section 145 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 placed a general duty on courts to treat more seriously any offence that could be shown to be racially or religiously aggravated or motivated. Under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, an offence was committed where a person used threatening words or behaviour in order to stir up religious hatred. 94. In 2012, the Government had published its hate crime strategy, Challenge it, Report it, Stop it, aimed at reducing the harm caused by hate crime, including religiously motivated hate crime, and at improving published data. The Government was currently reviewing the progress on the recommendations and expected to publish the results in 2014. Implementation of the strategy had included: the development and publication of guidance for police and prosecutors on handling hate crime cases; the inclusion of hate crime data, including religion, within the National Crime Statistics; and offering financial and other support to a range of civil society organizations to act as links between victims and the police. The police had developed a web facility called True Vision (www.report-it.org.uk), which provided information to victims of crime and professionals, and allowed victims and advocates to report hate crimes directly to the police through an online reporting facility. 95. The United Kingdom indicated wider Government actions aimed at tackling religious hatred, including guidance to help newspaper editors tackle online hatred; supporting the Anne Frank Trust; funding the Holocaust Memorial Day; and establishing cross-Government working groups on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred to further explore what could be done. 96. The United Kingdom stated that it welcomed self-reporting by all States on all forms of religious intolerance, as an important way of building trust, and that it was important that State reporting be credible and comprehensive. It also stated that, given that States had the ultimate responsibility to protect and promote human rights, it believed that it was important that reporting on religious intolerance be a State-led process. The action plan set out in Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 highlighted a number of important areas for all States to work on. United States of America 97. The United States of America reported that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, applicable to state and local governments under the Fourteenth 16