senior Kyrgyz MoI representatives. The purpose of training was to learn new methods for improving police communication with victims of domestic violence. Trainers included current and former police practitioners. The approach proved to be effective since participants were better able to relate to presenters with similarly situated police experience. ODIHR assisted the OSCE Community Security Initiative (CSI) and local NGOs to participate in the “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign” in Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan, as part of a global campaign that takes place every year from 25 November until 10 December. ODIHR supported the production of 18 banners and 5,000 brochures in the local language that sought to raise the public’s awareness about domestic violence and its legal consequences. The Toolkit has been translated into Russian and has been disseminated to OSCE field presences and other stakeholders during various awareness-raising events in 2012. Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism ODIHR successfully completed a two-year project resulting in the development of a training course on human rights in counter-terrorism by a working group of trainers from the Academy and Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MiA) and the Higher School of the State Committee on National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan. Throughout 2012, ODIHR, jointly with the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, carried out a series of activities to support the working group in designing and piloting the training course. Both the MiA Academy and the Higher School of the SCNS announced their decisions to integrate the course in their respective curricula starting from 2013. Two training sessions based on ODIHR’s manual on Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights 34 were delivered to over 50 law enforcement officers in Georgia (Tbilisi, 16-18 May 2012) and Ukraine (Kyiv, 4-6 December 2012). These sessions were organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Security Service of Ukraine, respectively. They enhanced the participants’ capacities to protect human rights in the antiterrorism context in line with international human rights standards and OSCE commitments. ODIHR has conducted 20 similar training courses throughout the OSCE region since 2005. ODIHR also conducted the human rights sessions of the OSCE BMSC Staff Courses and trained local human rights experts to deliver these sessions in the future. A one-week training on human rights in counter-terrorism and border security, organized jointly with the OSCE BMSC, provided 15 mid-level to senior border officials with a human rights-based approach to securing borders from terrorism (Dushanbe, 27-31 March 2012). In co-operation with the TNTD/SPMU, ODIHR organized a peer review meeting with police, counter-terrorism and human rights experts on the draft training manual on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations (Vienna, 24-25 October 2012). This manual was planned to be published in 2013. ODIHR and the TNTD also started to elaborate a Guidebook for policy level officials and senior police professionals on Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism: A Community Policing Approach. In 2012, a targeted expert meeting (Warsaw, 26-27 January 2012) and an OSCE POLIS forum discussion supported the drafting process of this Guidebook. Its publication was expected in 2013. 34 150 OSCE/ODIHR, Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual, Warsaw, 2008, at: http://www.osce.org/odihr/29103

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