Assia Ivantcheva (right), Acting Head of ODIHR’s Human Rights Department, talks to an official at the Azeri detention centre where bloggers Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade were being held, Baku, 25 November. (OSCE/Jens Eschenbaecher) 33 Human Rights, Women and Security Men and women have both the right and the responsibility to contribute to maintaining security and stability in their communities. This can also be ensured through equal participation. Furthermore, all security programmes and policies must take into account the different needs and vulnerabilities of men and women. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325) was the first resolution to take such matters into account. The participating States have built on the Resolution with the OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality and OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 14/05, “Women in Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management, and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation”. ODIHR works to demonstrate the impact of gender mainstreaming in security policy and programmes and helps to ensure that the day-to-day decision-making process benefits men and women equally. Activities ODIHR’s main human rights activities in 2009 fell within the following areas: 55 Support for human rights defenders and national human rights institutions; 55 Human rights training and education; 55 Human rights and anti-terrorism; ODIHR Annual Report 2009 55 Human rights and the armed forces; 55 Anti-trafficking; 55 Human rights, women and security; and 55 Enhancing ODIHR’s field monitoring capacity Support for Human Rights Defenders and National Human Rights Institutions ODIHR’s Focal Point on Human Rights Defenders and NHRIs continues to provide training on monitoring freedom of assembly on the basis of the Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, published jointly with the Venice Commission. In 2009, ODIHR helped human rights defenders monitor the protection of this freedom in Armenia and Kazakhstan by training local monitors to observe assemblies, judicial proceedings and legislative developments. Final reports on both projects will be published in the course of 2010. In an effort to foster dialogue and co-operation between human rights defenders and government authorities on freedom of association, ODIHR, together with the Ombudsman of the Kyrgyz Republic and the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law, organized a roundtable to discuss ways to enhance freedom of association in Central Asia. The roundtable, held in October, brought together government officials, parliamentarians and civil society representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The meeting, based on peer review and dialogue, looked Human Rights