Background The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) provides police-related assistance to governments and civil society of participating States, co-operating closely with other OSCE structures and international organizations. In 2010, Police-related activities were conducted in the following programmatic areas: Human Rights, Women & Security (HRWS) Starting in 2009, the ODIHR HRWS programme, together with the Southeast Europe Police Chiefs Association (SEPCA), the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), supported the establishment of the Southeast Europe Women’s Police Officer Network (WPON) with the aim of promoting the principle of gender equality in and democratic oversight of police services. The network is intended to function as an independent body under the umbrella of SEPCA members. In 2010, as a first step, WPON produced a research project to evaluate the situation of policewomen in the region (available at www.seesac.org). The HRWS programme actively contributed to preparing the questionnaires, presented preliminary findings together with the Ministry of Interior of Serbia before the SEPCA General Assembly in Sarajevo as well as reviewed and commented on the final report. UNDP supported a series of events rolling out the report throughout Southeast Europe. WPON activities are currently funded by UNDP with some degree of assistance from the Law Enforcement Department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. HRWS will remain involved by providing limited expertise or advice as the network develops its founding documents. In 2010, the HRWS programme continued to promote the Toolkit on Gender and Security Sector Reform, published by ODIHR together with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). The Toolkit addresses questions of why a gender perspective is relevant to security sector reform processes, such as police reform, and national security policy development and how gender can be integrated into particular security aspects and institutions, such as law enforcement (see www.osce.org/odihr for the Toolkit). The Toolkit, including one of its fourteen training modules entitled “Police Reform and Gender,” was translated into Russian and was disseminated to OSCE field presences as well as during various awareness-raising events. HRWS commenced a series of Toolkitbased training activities in December 2010. Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism As part of its training module for public officials and counter-terrorism practitioners, the ODIHR Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism Programme successfully delivered two training courses for law enforcement officers and police students on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism. The first training, organized jointly by ODIHR, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Interior, took place in Ashgabat on 22-24 November. Over thirty students and eight instructors of the Police Academy of Turkmenistan participated in the training. The second training, organized by ODIHR, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, took place in Skopje on 1-3 December. The training course provided over twenty law enforcement officers with a useful guide to the international human rights framework applicable to counterterrorism. 114