HUMAN RIGHTS Pavel Chacuk, Human Rights Adviser at ODIHR, gives a presentation on ODIHR Guidelines on Human Rights Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, 24 January 2013. (OSCE) involving Guantanamo detainees. The delegation also met with civil society representatives and the defence counsel of some former and current detainees. The visit was part of ODIHR’s activities to assist OSCE participating States in meeting their commitments to respect human rights in the fight against terrorism by safeguarding the rule of law, individual liberties and the right to equal justice under the law. Following a broader assessment of the human rights situation of the detainees in Guantanamo, ODIHR plans to produce a public report with its findings and recommendations in 2014. Jointly with the OSCE TNTD/SPMU, ODIHR launched in November the publication Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations: A Practical Manual for Law Enforcement Officers. The tool adopts an operational approach to explore the different phases of counterterrorism investigations and their potential impact on human rights. It covers issues such as informationgathering and intelligence; witnesses and crime scene examination; the arrest, detention and questioning of terrorism suspects; and the integrity and accountability of investigations. It complements ODIHR’s publication Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights, which focuses on the international human rights standards and OSCE commitments applicable in the anti-terrorism context. In 2013 ODIHR and the OSCE TNTD Action against Terrorism Unit (ATU) published two reports, on Women and Terrorist Radicalization (available in Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, English, Russian and S ­ erbian) and on Youth Engagement to Counter Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (available in English and Russian). The reports present the key findings and recommendations from a series of expert meetings on these issues held in 2011 and 2012. In April, ODIHR and the OSCE Border Management Staff College conducted a week-long training 46  /   ODIHR Annual Report 2013

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