Human Rights Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Assembly and Association, giving the keynote address at the OSCE’s Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Assembly and Association, Vienna, 8 November 2012. (OSCE/Jonathan Perfect) organizations across the OSCE region shared good practices in human rights education for law enforcement officials and highlighted different ways to improve teaching approaches, methodologies and course evaluation, as well as other aspects of the curriculum. ODIHR continued to provide support to civil society organizations in monitoring public assemblies. In February, jointly with the international NGO Human Rights Foundation and the Georgian NGO Human Rights Centre, ODIHR organized an event in Tbilisi with approximately 70 human rights defenders and the participation of Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The event was mainly intended to discuss challenges and good practices in freedom of assembly and association in European countries. In this context, one roundtable 48 ODIHR Annual Report 2012 discussion was devoted to the presentation of a freedom of assembly monitoring report, prepared by the Human Rights Centre with the support of ODIHR, following the systematic monitoring of assemblies in Georgia carried out in 2011. ODIHR also provided training in assembly-monitoring methodology to local NGOs in Serbia and Azerbaijan, in partnership with OSCE field offices to promote the freedom of peaceful assembly. Building on the work carried out in 2011 to support NHRIs in the OSCE area, on 17 and 18 October in Warsaw, ODIHR organized an expert roundtable for NHRIs to facilitate the exchange of ideas and discussion on future work to support NHRIs. The meeting was attended by representatives of NHRIs, intergovernmental organizations, OSCE field operations and international experts. ODIHR also continued to support OSCE field operations and other OSCE structures in providing human rights training and facilitating the exchange of information on human rights issues between OSCE actors. In the context of torture prevention, in November ODIHR organized a roundtable with the participation of international experts and OSCE field presences seeking to draw on experiences and lessons learned across the OSCE and to identify how best ODIHR can promote and facilitate work to prevent torture and other ill-treatment. Human Rights and AntiTerrorism In partnership with the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, in 2012 ODIHR completed a project to support Tajik law enforcement institutions to develop a training programme on the protection of human rights while

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