Human Rights  •  27 ACTIVITIES HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING ODIHR continued to maintain an overview of human rights developments across the OSCE region, with a view to identifying trends, challenges and examples of good practices in the implementation of OSCE human dimension commitments. On 17 September, ODIHR and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) presented their joint Report of the Human Rights Assessment Mission on Crimea. The 100-page report, which was prepared upon request of a participating State, was based on interviews with more than 100 civil society actors, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities, Crimean residents and displaced persons, as well as people travelling between Crimea and mainland Ukraine. It presented a comprehensive examination of the human rights situation in Crimea, based on numerous credible, consistent and compelling accounts of serious human rights violations and legal irregularities on the peninsula. On 10 November, ODIHR published its report on the Human Rights ­Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo, a comprehensive assessment of human rights in the detention facility, covering issues surrounding the detention of individuals, proceedings before military commissions, and challenges in closing the facility and ensuring accountability for human rights violations against detainees. The 280-page report is based on interviews with United States government officials, military and civilian lawyers, NGO representatives and former detainees, as well as extensive desk research. As part of its third cycle of assembly monitoring, in 2015 ODIHR observed assemblies in five participating States. A comprehensive report with the monitoring findings will be published in 2016. HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERT ADVICE ODIHR provided expert advice on the implementation of human dimension commitments to participating States and other stakeholders, and participated in expert meetings and discussions at the international and national levels. On 4 February, at an event hosted in Brussels by the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance, ODIHR launched its Guidelines on the Legal Personality of ­Religious or Belief Communities, prepared jointly the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission. The guidelines present minimum international standards in the area of recognition of religious or belief communities, delineating the legal framework that would ensure that communities wishing to do so have a fair opportunity to be granted legal personality. The Turkish-language translation of the guidelines was presented in Istanbul Dilnoza Satarova (l), ODIHR’s Associate Officer on Freedom of Religion and Belief with Ergun Ozbudun (c-l), Professor of Law at Istanbul Sehir Universitesi, Bulent Senay (c-r), Professor of History of Religion and Culture at Uludag University, and Mine Yildirim(r), Director of the Freedom of Belief Initiative in Turkey at launch event of Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities in Istanbul, 19 November. (OSCE/Marharyta Zhesko)