A/HRC/13/58 6. Hate crimes 54. Statements and/or text proposals were made by South Africa (on behalf of the African Group), Sweden (on behalf of the EU), the United States of America, Argentina (on behalf of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay), Algeria, Nigeria, Pakistan (on behalf of the OIC), Denmark, Norway, the Syrian Arab Republic. The following observers took the floor: CRED; Association for World Education and World Union for Progressive Judaism (joint statement) (see A/HRC/13/CRP.1). 55. 56. South Africa, on behalf of the African Group, made the following proposal: 1. A definition of hate crimes should be incorporated in the additional protocol that the Ad Hoc Committee has been mandated to elaborate; 2. Furthermore, this definition should be cognizant of and provide for the fact that individuals and groups of individuals, including their property may be targeted on the basis of one or more of the following factors: race, religion, ethnicity and national origin in order to cover the widest scope possible in addressing hate crimes; 3. It is also important to emphasize here, that provision should be made for the criminalization of offences in which religious motives are an aggravating factor. Sweden, on behalf of the EU, submitted the following proposal: States should collect and publish data information on hate crimes in order to strengthen their efforts to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. 57. The United States of America made the following proposals: Member States are called upon to strengthen their legislative frameworks against acts of violence or intimidation motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against, inter alia, race or religion, i.e. hate crimes by: 1. Enacting, where they do not already exist, laws that expressly address such hate crimes; 2. Effectively tracking relevant crime statistics to determine whether new laws are needed in this regard; and 3. Undertaking legislative, inter-agency or other special inquiries into the problem of hate crimes. Member States are called upon to enhance enforcement of such hate crimes laws and policies by: GE.10-10366 4. Monitoring hate crimes incidents to determine whether hate crimes laws are being implemented; 5. Taking effective measures to ensuring that institutions created to counter hate crimes have adequate resources; 6. Taking effective measures to ensure robust enforcement of hate crimes laws; and 7. Providing proper hate crimes training to prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officials. 13