Human Rights ODIHR trainer Jonathan Cooper addressing participants at a training course on countering terrorism and protecting rights in Batumi on 9 July 2008. II. Human rights training and education Raising awareness of existing OSCE commitments and equipping civil society and governmental officials with the skills to address human rights issues effectively is a fundamental ODIHR activity. In October, the results of a monitoring report, Protection of Children in General-Education Schools of Armenia from Violence, prepared by ODIHR-trained civil society activists in Armenia, addressing the issue of violence against schoolchildren by teachers in secondary schools, was released to the public and shared with the relevant authorities. After a year-long field test in Belarusian schools, July saw the printing of the pilot edition of the manual Teaching Human Rights in School and Beyond. The manual is based on the Belarusian context, and comprises detailed lesson plans on different human rights topics. The manual’s next edition is under development, incorporating feedback from the Belarusian authorities and further experience from the ongoing pilot-project in schools. In 2008, ODIHR, together with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, with support from Human Rights Education Associates, an international NGO, 40 Annual Report 2008 continued compiling the resource Human Rights Education in the School Systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: a Compendium of Good Practice. The resource will be completed in mid 2009 and consist of 100 examples of good practices in human rights education in primary and secondary schools and teacher training institutions in 38 OSCE participating States. III. Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism Respect for human rights is crucial to successful strategies for combating terrorism. Counterterrorism measures that do not respect human rights both violate states’ international commitments and can be counter-productive, by winning support for terrorists. States are thus confronted with the complex challenge of understanding, developing and implementing humanrights-compliant policies and practices that counter and prevent acts of terrorism. ODIHR offers OSCE-wide and specific, national-level projects to assist participating States in addressing and understanding challenges in a sensitive, responsive and appropriate way. In 2008, ODIHR training sessions for senior public figures working on counter-terrorism were held in Georgia and Ukraine. The ODIHR manual Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights, a practitioner’s guide