Human Rights ODIHR also continued its support for antitrafficking activities in Central Asia in 2008. To follow up on the findings from research conducted jointly with the UNESCO office in Kazakhstan, it developed a project in regions on both sides of the country’s border with Uzbekistan. Through outreach work with migrants, the project provides legal assistance and counseling to address their lack of awareness and information about their rights and avenues for assistance and redress. The NGOs “Sana Sezim”, in Kazakhstan, and “Istikbolli Avlod”, in Uzbekistan, partnered with ODIHR in the project’s implementation. ODIHR has further supported efforts to assist and empower trafficked persons by funding the activities of three Albanian non-governmental organizations. These activities included consultations with more than 300 persons through a drop-in and documentation centre, outreach activities to Roma and Egyptian communities in the south of Albania to raise awareness of their rights in relation to the trafficking of persons, and direct legal counselling and assistance to trafficked persons and vulnerable groups. The exchange of experience and best practices between those in origin and destination countries working to combat trafficking in people is important in ensuring an appropriate assessment of risk prior to returning trafficked persons to origin countries. ODIHR organized a study tour to Albania by a group of immigration lawyers from the Anti Trafficking Legal Project and the Poppy Project, both in Great Britain. The aim was to facilitate cooperation on individual trafficking cases, with a special focus on the issues of safe return, risk assessment and the re-trafficking of victims returned to Albania. Albanian lawyers requested that a training seminar be conducted by the British lawyers on bringing trafficking cases before the European Court of Human Rights, and ODIHR will follow up on this initiative. Another exchange visit, to Italy, was organized by ODIHR in December for Serbian social service providers working with victims of trafficking. Italy is one of the main destination countries for Serbian nationals travelling abroad for work. The event facilitated an exchange of information on the implementation of outreach activities, as well as on practices for providing short and long-term assistance to trafficked persons. The Serbian participants gained information on existing practices for returning trafficked and exploited persons from Italy to Serbia, and were able to take part in discussions on how to co-operate better in cases of this type. Toolkit on Gender and Security Sector Reform VI. Human rights, women and security The OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality and the OSCE Ministerial Council Decision 14/05 on Women in Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management, and PostConflict Rehabilitation recognize UNSCR 1325 and call for OSCE structures and participating States to promote its implementation as appropriate and in accordance with their mandate. UNSCR 1325 acknowledges that armed conflict impacts men and women differently, and emphasizes the need to protect against the violation of women’s human rights. The resolution provides concrete ways to increase women’s contributions throughout all phases of conflict, at all levels. UNSCR 1325 was followed up, in 2008, by the adoption of UNSCR 1820 on sexual violence in conflict, in order to address Annual Report 2008 43