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 ODIHR Annual Report 2014 47

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