HUMAN RIGHTS  //  41 Jennifer Croft, Deputy Head of ODIHR’s Human Rights Department, participates in a panel discussion at the Human Rights Communication 2.0 event, alongside Christian Brienen of the Dutch-based PR agency Glasnost (left), Belgium-based communications strategist Tomislav Korman (second from the left) and Kate Evans of the Mindbridge non-profit organization in the United States. Budapest, 5 December 2017. (OSCE/Tamás Deák) human rights topics and learned how to increase their impact through effective communications with other stakeholders, such as state authorities and the media. ODIHR also piloted its first train-the-trainer course on human rights monitoring for 13 representatives (5 men, 8 women) from Ukrainian civil society from 3 to 7 July in Kharkiv, Ukraine. ODIHR also sought to increase its outreach and engage new audiences. In December, ODIHR and the Central European University co-organized a three day capacity-­ building event in Budapest entitled “Human Rights Communication 2.0” for human rights defenders in the OSCE region. The first day featured 12 talks by international experts on various topics. The event itself was attended by 150 participants and was live-streamed on social media. The pre-event campaign on social media reached 147,000 people. The second and third days of the event consisted of workshops for 29 competitively selected human rights defenders (10 men, 19 women) to enable them to address specific human rights communication challenges through targeted digital campaigns.