Tolerance & Non-discrimination Participants share ideas on human diversity during a presentation of ODIHR’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme to Polish law enforcement officials, Warsaw, 22 February 2012. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma) college members in 2013. To support the exchange of good practices, ODIHR supported an event that gathered law enforcement officials from Poland and Germany in Berlin on 27 February. Additionally, three more participating States have expressed interest in implementing TAHCLE in 2013. Supporting Civil Society An important part of ODIHR’s work includes support to civil society organizations. In line with the Ministerial Council Decision adopted in 2006 in Brussels, which tasks ODIHR to closely co-operate with civil society working in the field of combating intolerance and discrimination, ODIHR trains civil society representatives and conducts awareness-raising activities. ODIHR also works to ensure the presence and participation of civil society groups at OSCE meetings, where they have the opportunity to engage in discussion with government representatives from participating States and develop contacts and co-operation with other organizations from the OSCE region. In 2012, ODIHR trained more than 150 representatives from civil society organizations in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. As part of the project Best Practices for Roma Integration (BPRI) p ­ roject in the Western Balkans, ODIHR conducted two regional training seminars for 36 Roma representatives in Sarajevo on preventing and responding to hate crimes against Roma. In order to reach out to new civil society organizations, ODIHR organized two workshops, in Dublin on 25 May and Oslo on 26 November, on hate crimes targeting people with disabilities. The workshops gathered more than 50 activists, who gained a deeper understanding of the concept of hate crime, and monitoring and reporting mechanisms, as well as potential areas of engagement to support government efforts to respond to hate crimes against persons with disabilities. On 1 October in Warsaw, the Office also organized a training seminar for 22 civil society representatives of African descent from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United States. The training included presentations on the concept of hate crime and ways in which members of African communities can increase reporting to law enforcement agencies. On the margins of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting focusing on combating racism, intolerance and discrimination in society through sport, ODIHR organized a civil society meeting for 25 NGO representatives. Participants ODIHR Annual Report 2012 59