A/HRC/34/35 Denmark 18. The National Police launched a nationwide programme in November 2015 to monitor hate crimes. The police have also initiated a dialogue with a number of stakeholders, with a view to establishing closer cooperation and determining ways to increase the number of reports of hate crimes by victims. 19. Section 244-246 of the Criminal Code contains provisions regarding violence and assaults. Section 23 provides for an offence if a person is complicit in such acts by incitement or aiding and abetting a wrongful act. Section 81 (6) of the Code makes it an aggravating circumstance in the sentencing of a criminal act, if the act was motivated by the ethnic origin, religious beliefs or sexual orientation of others, or similar motivations. Section 266 (b) provides that any person who publicly, or with the intent of dissemination to a wider group, issues a statement or other communication threatening, humiliating or degrading persons of a particular group because of their race, colour, national or ethnic origin, religious faith or sexuality will be liable to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. 20. According to section 137 (2) of the Criminal Code any person who disturbs, inter alia, a service of worship or other public church service by noisy or disorderly behaviour, or who disturbs a funeral or burial service in an improper manner will be liable to a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. Egypt 21. The Ministry of Awqaf (religious property) is responsible for the promotion of the concepts of human rights and freedoms through the dissemination of a culture of tolerance and coexistence. It reports on the forum of tolerance and moderation in the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, under the purview of the Ministry, which promotes dialogue and a culture of economic and social rights and the rejection of violence, intolerance, terrorism and religious hatred. On 18 September 2015, a Friday preaching was circulated in all mosques in Egypt, which referred to human rights, the humane aspects of human rights and the defence of the dignity of man. The Ministry circulates preaching materials on peaceful coexistence and human values, in order that the public understand the necessity of rejecting violence and terrorism, and it calls for moderation, secularism and safety as a way to stabilize nations and societies. 22. On “Humanitarian Work Day” in the United Arab Emirates, the Minister of Awqaf gave an important lecture at the Sheikh Zayed Al Kabir mosque in Abu Dhabi concerning peaceful coexistence between religion and jurisprudence. The Ministry organizes meetings and intellectual seminars in clubs and staff unions on many subjects, including the rejection of discrimination, women’s rights and incitement to violence. There are seminars, day courses and religious evenings organized on a weekly basis in mosques around the country, during which freedom of expression, the protection of human rights and the teaching that Islam calls for peaceful coexistence with others, independent of religion, confession and thought, as well as the principle of “no harm to others”, are discussed. Germany 23. In Germany, offences involving discrimination against persons based on religion or belief, particularly violent offences, are separately recorded and analysed as hate crimes, which come under the heading of politically motivated crime. Under criminal law, hate crime involving contempt for other human beings, which includes discrimination or violence based on religion or faith, means that the courts generally hand out stricter sentences, or, in the case of murder, consider the offender to have acted from base motives (section 211 of the Criminal Code). Hate crimes are prosecuted as offences against State security. The police forces of the federal Länder support victim assistance projects, associations and institutions and other counselling bodies in an effort to encourage those 4