A/HRC/28/47 participation”; the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung); and the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance. 33. The Federal Ministry of the Interior has, for many years, successfully promoted Christian-Jewish cooperation and interreligious and intercultural dialogue between Christians and Jews, in recent years expanding the dialogue to a trialogue at the international level with Muslims. In 2006, the German Islam Conference was launched to establish a permanent communication process between the German state (Federal Government, Federal Länder, municipalities) and the representatives of Muslims living in Germany (see www.deutsche-islam-konferenz.de). 34. The Federal Minister of the Interior delivered a speech on the occasion of the Day of Action against Hatred and Violence, which was organized by Muslim associations in 10 cities all over Germany; activities marking the Day were held on 19 September 2014 after Friday prayers, and included sit-ins and peace prayers. In addition, in 2014, the Federal Ministry of the Interior funded projects on interreligious and intercultural dialogue. 35. In Germany, offences involving discrimination against persons based on religion or belief, in particular violent offences, are recorded separately and analysed as hate crimes, under the heading of politically motivated crime. Germany stated that approximately 90 per cent of those offences had been attributed to right-wing-oriented and politically motivated crime. In accordance with the criminal law, in cases of hate crimes involving contempt for other human beings, which includes discrimination or violence based on religion or faith, the courts generally issue stricter sentences; if the crime entailed murder, courts consider the offender to have acted on base motives (sect. 211 of the Criminal Code). Specific forms of hate crime involving religious aspects are also punishable, depending on the individual case, as incitement to hatred (sect. 130 of the Criminal Code), as the defamation of religious associations (sect. 166 of the Criminal Code) or as insults (sect. 185 of the German Criminal Code), if the offence was targeted at individuals. According to the Police Crime Statistics for 2012, 2,506 cases of incitement to hatred and 47 cases of defamation of religious associations were reported in 2012, with the resolution rates being 63.8 per cent and 44.7 per cent, respectively. Insults with a religious aspect are recorded under the subheading “religion”, provided that an application for criminal prosecution is filed. 36. Police work to combat hate crimes includes systematically prosecuting hate crimes as offences against State security and recording them separately; cooperating with counselling bodies and supporting projects, associations and institutions providing assistance to victims; undertaking differentiated analysis of the number of cases nationally, in order to elaborate potential prevention measures; and cataloguing measures to combat politically motivated crime in order to perceive, record and combat relevant offences in a more targeted manner. The police take regular preventive measures, such as stepping up physical protection or police controls with regard to especially vulnerable locations, for example, Jewish cemeteries. Germany stated that the Federal Council (Bundesrat) had decided to initiate procedures before the Federal Constitutional Court to ban a right-wing extremist party, with the active support of the Federal Government. 37. In 2011, the Federal Ministry of the Interior launched the Security Partnership Initiative, a body comprised of representatives of the Federal Government, the Länder, security authorities and Muslims, aimed at increasing public awareness of the problem of radicalization of young people, to initiate projects and to provide financial support for successful projects carried out by Muslims and security authorities at the local level (see www.initiative-sicherheitspartnerschaft.de). 7