HUMAN RIGHTS Select publications produced by the ODIHR Human Rights Department in 2014 in Berne, at the conference “The OSCE and Human Rights Defenders: The Budapest Document 20 Years On”. The conference was organized jointly by ODIHR and the Swiss Chairmanship, with the support of the incoming Serbian Chairmanship. ODIHR has been raising awareness of the guidelines and encouraging their use, with a view to ensuring their implementation. Activities included presentations at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in September. National events in Hungary and Kyrgyzstan in November and December provided forums for discussion between civil society and state officials about the implementation of the guidelines in those countries. To date, the guidelines have been translated into Russian and Hungarian. To support the implementation of OSCE commitments to facilitate the establishment and strengthening of independent national institutions in the area of human rights, ODIHR held the first National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) Academy, from 23 to 27 June in Budapest, bringing together staff from 34 NHRIs. The Academy was organized jointly with the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions and the School of Public Policy at Central European University. The event aimed at strengthening gender mainstreaming in the work of NHRIs and the independence of NHRIs to conduct monitoring of human rights, including social and economic rights. Participants also were encouraged to interact with UN bodies, as well as to share good practices between NHRIs and to promote networking among them. These objectives reflected the results of a careful needs assessment carried out prior to the Academy. ODIHR continued its work to strengthen the capacity of the police in OSCE participating States to facilitate assemblies in line with human rights standards. Jointly with the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, ODIHR has been developing a human rights training guide to the policing of assemblies, to consist of a handbook and a training manual. The tool will support law-enforcement officials in command positions to guarantee the freedom of peaceful assembly, to facilitate assemblies and, in that context, to take decisions in line with human rights. Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism ODIHR continues to assess the human rights situation of detainees held at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. ODIHR held consultations with lawyers of detainees and civils society representatives in February, in Washington D.C. and New York, as well as with United States government officials in September. Furthering its co-operation with the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe, from 7 to 11 April, ODIHR delivered a week-long training session on “Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism and Border Security”. The course brought together 22 senior border officials from ten OSCE participating States and two OSCE Partners for Co-operation. The course focused on the need to develop and implement human rights-compliant measures as an essential requirement for successfully countering terrorist threats. ODIHR continued developing its training programme for counter-terrorism law-enforcement officers on countering terrorism and protecting human rights. As part of this programme, ODIHR ODIHR Annual Report 2014 45