30  •  Human Rights In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, ODIHR implemented activities as part of a project to raise awareness about OSCE commitments and international standards on freedom of religion or belief. The project also promoted the new Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities among government officials, representatives of religious or belief communities and civil society actors. Activities included workshops and training events for representatives of state bodies, religious or belief communities and civil society organizations, and were attended by 74 participants (46 men, 28 women). ODIHR also supported a Bishkek-based NGO to produce a practical handbook on international standards on freedom of religion or belief and national legislation in Kyrgyzstan. ODIHR continued to organize capacity building activities to support participating States in ensuring that human rights are respected when combating terrorism. From 6 to 10 April, 22 participants from 11 OSCE participating States and Afghanistan (17 men, five women) completed a joint ODIHROSCE Border Management Staff College regional training on “Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism and Border Security”. The training focused on the need to develop and implement human rights-compliant measures to successfully counter transnational ODIHR Director Michael Georg Link (r) listens as Ambassador Sanja Milinkovic´, Deputy Permanent Representative of Serbia to the OSCE, speaks at the Human Dimension Seminar on the role of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights in the OSCE area. Warsaw, 1 June 2015. (OSCE/Piotr Markowski) terrorist threats to border security. Between 2 and 6 November, ODIHR organized two training sessions on complying with human rights standards and effectively countering terrorism, in Madrid. The courses brought together 38 mid- and senior-level officers of the Spanish National Police, Guardia Civil, the Intelligence Centre against Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO), the Penitentiary Institutions and the Regional Police of Spain (29 men, nine women). Both courses adopted an operational approach and focused on the importance of respecting human rights to successfully counter terrorism. ODIHR continued to develop training tools on the human rights compliant policing of assemblies. A first pilot training based on the draft tools was delivered on 16 and 17 July in Bishkek to 21 Kyrgyz public order police commanders (20 men, one woman) from across the country. A second pilot training was offered on 28 and 29 October in Szczytno to 25 Polish police commanders (21 men, four women) from all regions of Poland. Feedback collected during these training activities will serve in the further development and finalization of ODIHR’s training tools on the policing of assemblies.