On 16 November 2016 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released its hate crime data for 2015. The initiative continues to be one of the few at international levels which tackles the number one issue related to hate crimes: low reporting.
The report, which is published in a separate OSCE page, covers all types of hate crimes, including those motivated by sexual orientation and/or gender identity. For the past year OSCE received official information from 41 participating States and 113 civil society groups. 
With regards to crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity the report has collected a total of 699, out of which 434 were violent attacks against people, 232 threats, and 33 attacks against property.
Within the ERA region, cases of hate crimes against LGBTI people have been reported by Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. 
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Open Centre, reported five physical assaults, including one carried out by a group armed with a knife; four instances of threats, three of which involved intimidation lasting over extended periods of time; and one incident in which the office of an LGBTI rights organization was vandalized with offensive graffiti.
The OSCE mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, reported 21 incidents targeting people and structures on the grounds of sexual orientation or affiliation with the LGBT community.
In Croatia, official figures recorded two physical assaults and two cases of homophobic threats.
In Montenegro the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported two physical assaults and an incident of threats. The victims of these incidents were gay men and LGBT activists.
In Serbia, ILGA-Europe and Gayten-LGBT reported a physical assault carried out by a group on a transgender couple. Praxis reported two physical assaults.
Transgender Europe reported two physical assaults, including one that involved knife threats. The Anti-Defamation League and Human Rights first reported a physical assault on four lesbian women. 
In Turkey, Transgender Europe, the Anti-Defamation League and Human Rights First reported one murder. Transgender Europe reported two additional murders; four sexual assaults; 33 physical assaults, 21 of which involved the use of a weapon, eight of which were committed by a group and two in which a weapon was used. Transgender Europe also reported three threats, an arson attack, one incident of damage to property, one robbery and two incidents of thefts accompanied by threats.
The London Legal Group reported the murder of a transgender woman; one attempted murder; and four physical assaults, one of which was carried out by a group and another involved a knife.
According to ODIHR Director Michael Georg “much is still to be done to overcome the current levels of under-recording, and full implementation of hate crime legal provisions remains challenging.” The OSCE statement also adds that under-reporting of hate crimes continues to be a trend. 
The legal situation of LGBTI people in the Western Balkans and Turkey remains problematic with regards to combating hate crime. Even in those few countries where the criminal code covers also sexual orientation and/or gender identity, quality of investigation and prosecution remains poor, as well as levels of reporting remain low. 
Several initiatives are taking place regionally and nationally in order to tackle the issue, however much more remains to be done in terms of legal amendments, policy change and access to justice of hate crime victims.
ERA encourages all LGBTI associations in the Western Balkans and Turkey region to make their data and information available to OSCE/ODIHR as a mechanism to further advance legal and policy changes in the area and to push for countries to act proactively on addressing the issue of hate crime. 
Source:

http://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-lgbt-people