HUMAN RIGHTS  //  39 Correctional officers from different parts of the OSCE region participate in a group excerise during an ODIHR-organized training course on preventing sexual and gender-based violence in prisons. Warsaw, 18 December 2017. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma) Women made up 47% of participants at Human Rights events in 2017 police forces in southern Spain, held on 20 and 22 June in Malaga. On 21 and 22 November in Tirana, ODIHR trained 22 counter-terrorism officers (19 men, 3 women) from the Albanian State Police about the risks of human rights violations in counter-terrorism policing and how human rights protection can enhance its effectiveness. ODIHR organized a series of events on 4 and 5 April in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and on 29 and 30 May and on 22 and 23 November in Kyiv, to support the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior and the National Police to strengthen their internal oversight mechanisms to effectively respond to sexual and gender-based violence. A total of 75 police officers (30 men, 45 women) participated in the training events, which the European Union Advisory Mission to Ukraine and La Strada – an NGO – also supported. On 18 and 19 December in Warsaw, ODIHR gathered 14 correctional officers (9 men, 5 women) from eight OSCE participating States to pilot a training course aimed at raising awareness of and building capacity for the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in prisons. The participants were invited to review a newly developed training manual that forms part of ODIHR’s work on prevention of sexual and gender-based violence in places of deprivation of liberty. Building on the good policing practices promoted in ODIHR’s Human Rights Handbook on Policing Assemblies, ODIHR developed and piloted a train-the-trainer course in June,