HUMAN RIGHTS
Snježana Bokulić, Head of
the ODIHR Human Rights
Department, presenting
The Guiding Principles on
Human Rights in the Return
of Trafficked Persons,
at event in Warsaw, 25
September. OSCE/Murat
Gungor
organized, jointly with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, a pilot course on complying
with human rights standards while enhancing
counter-terrorism strategies and skills for 12
law-enforcement officers of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 10 and 11 July in Sarajevo. A second training
session, on 26 and 27 November in Warsaw, gathered 17 senior law-enforcement officers from eight
OSCE participating States.
In March, ODIHR and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department published a Guidebook on
Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism
(VERLT): a Community Policing Approach. The publication provides guidance primarily to policymakers
and senior police professionals on central issues
that can impact the success or failure of police efforts to harness a community-policing approach to
preventing terrorism and countering VERLT.
Continuing to highlight human rights issues that
affect armed forces personnel, ODIHR maintained the spotlight on freedom of association of
military personnel. In co-operation with the European Organisation of Military Associations, ODIHR
organized a meeting on the role of military associations in protecting human rights of armed forces in
Central and Eastern Europe for 20 representatives
of military associations and ministries of defense
from nine participating States, on 10 September in
Budapest.
In co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Moldova,
ODIHR provided training for 18 representatives of
the Ministries of Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs
and European Integration on gender mainstreaming
in the security sector and the implementation of UN
Security Council Resolution 1325, from 13 and 14
May in Chisinau.
Freedom of Religion of Belief
Human Rights, Gender and Security
ODIHR continued its co-operation with the OSCE
Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) and delivered two more events under its FSC Human Rights
Discussions Series. On 16 July in Vienna, the first
event discussed the conditions of service and human rights of armed forces personnel, while the
second, on 23 October, addressed the civil and
political rights of men and women serving in the
military.
ODIHR, jointly with the Council of Europe’s Venice
Commission, finalized the Guidelines on the Legal
Personality of Religious of Belief Communities. The
document was adopted by the Venice Commission
in June.
Human Rights and Anti-Trafficking
Together with its implementing partners, ODIHR
carried out nine projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
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