12 Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations In particular, ODIHR has been mandated to support the OSCE participating States in developing and implementing human rights-compliant measures to prevent and counter terrorism.14 As part of this mandate, in 2007 ODIHR published Countering Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights: A Manual, which focuses on the main human rights at risk in the anti-terrorism context and ways to ensure the protection of human rights in compliance with international human rights standards and OSCE human dimension commitments. The manual has also aided in training sessions throughout the OSCE region by providing law enforcement officers with practical tools to enable them to respect international human rights standards and OSCE commitments. ODIHR and the TNTD/SPMU have combined their expertise on human rights and democratic policing respectively to produce this manual, which explores in detail the different phases of counter-terrorism investigations and links them to relevant human rights standards. We believe that this manual, by examining the topic of protecting human rights in such investigations from an operational point of view, will provide law enforcement officers in the OSCE region with useful and concrete guidance to both respect human rights in their daily work, as well as more effectively and successfully investigate terrorism-related acts. Ambassador Janez Lenarčič Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Alexey Lyzhenkov Co-ordinator Department for Addressing Transnational Threats OSCE Secretariat 14 Ibid; and OSCE Ministerial Council, Annex to Ministerial Council Decision No. 1, “The Bucharest Plan of Action for Combating Terrorism”, Bucharest, 3–4 December 2001, <http://www.osce.org/mc/40515>.