Human Rights ODIHR consultant Friedrich Schwindt delivers a training course for Georgian law enforcement officers on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, Tbilisi, 16 May 2012. (OSCE/Mårten Löfberg) countering terrorism. Placing particular emphasis on local ownership, the relevant curriculum was developed by a group of ten experienced trainers from the Academy and Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Higher School of the State Committee on National Security. Pilot training at the Academy and the Higher School was delivered in November in Dushanbe and it is expected that the course will be integrated in the regular curriculum of both institutions. ODIHR also provided a series of country-based training events on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism. Georgian law enforcement officers completed a three-day training course on 18 May, organized by ODIHR and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The course was attended by more than 25 senior and midlevel police officers from Georgia’s Special Operations, Counter-Terrorism and Patrol Police working in the area of combating terrorism. In March, police trainers in Ashgabat completed a three-day training of trainers course organized by ODIHR to help train future Turkmen police officers in the protection of human rights while countering terrorism. In December, ODIHR delivered training on the protection of human rights in countering terrorism to 25 security service, police and border officials in Ukraine. Throughout 2012, ODIHR delivered training sessions on human rights and border security during the periodic annual courses of the OSCE Border Management Staff College and trained future instructors at the college. From 27 to 31 March, ODIHR also conducted a week-long training course on the protection of human rights while countering terrorist threats at the borders. The training sessions aimed at providing officials from border and customs agencies from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation with a human rights-based approach to securing borders from terrorism. Jointly with the OSCE Secretariat Transnational Threats Department/Action against Terrorism Unit, ODIHR organized two expert roundtables on preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism. The two events, co-organized with the OSCE Gender Section in Vienna, focused on the empowerment of women in countering violent extremism on 12 and 13 March and on youth engagement on 23 and 24 October. Human Rights, Gender and Security In January, ODIHR launched the Human Rights, Gender and Security ODIHR Annual Report 2012 49