APPENDIX 1 Public order and crisis management In 2015, ODIHR started its 3rd Assembly Monitoring Cycle to support participating States in the implementation of their commitments on freedom of peaceful assembly. The facilitation of the exercise by police on freedom of peaceful assembly was one of the key aspects of ODIHR’s assessment. In 2015, ODIHR deployed teams to monitor a total of 11  assemblies in five participating States (Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland, and Latvia). The composition of the monitoring teams included 4 men and 7 women. In September, ODIHR contributed to the development of the Guidelines for the Implementation of the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by law enforcement officials published by Amnesty International, Dutch Section10. On 30 October, ODIHR participated as a presenter at a workshop on “Protest and Demonstration – Current Legal and Practical Issues”, organized by the Swiss Center of Competence for Human Rights (Schweizerischen Kompetenzzentrums für Menschenrechte) in Bern. During 2015, ODIHR delivered two pilot trainings on human rights-compliant policing of assemblies in Kyrgyzstan and Poland for a total of 46 public order police commanders (41 men and 5 women). The trainings were based on the newly developed Human Rights Training Guide to Policing Assemblies, which consists of a handbook (developed jointly with the TNTD/SPMU) and a training manual. The handbook provides key information for police commanders on assemblies and public order management. The 21 police commanders from Osh, Jalal-Abat, Bishkek, and Issyk Kul (20  men and 1 woman) and 25 participants from Poland (21 men and 4 women) expressed appreciation for the training and emphasized its usefulness. ODIHR sought to use the feedback from police commanders on the training materials for future trainings in other OSCE participating States. Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Criminal Investigations and Analysis In December, ODIHR completed the War Crimes Justice Project - Phase II (WCJP II), which was launched in July 2012, with the publication of its Final Report11. Phase II aimed at further strengthening the capacities of six jurisdictions 10 http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/amnesty_international_guidelines_ on_use_of_force-2.pdf 11 http://www.osce.org/odihr/218231 in South-Eastern Europe (SEE), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to adjudicate serious violations of international humanitarian law in an effective and fair manner. On 25 May, ODIHR organized the final activity under WCJP  II, which brought together war crimes investigators from SEE. This peer-to-peer meeting aimed to promote the exchange of experiences and good practices in war crimes investigation. Although a number of bilateral agreements on exchange of information and co-operation between war crimes prosecutors in the region have been signed in recent years, little attention has been given to the work of investigators. Counter-Terrorism & VERLT In 2015, ODIHR finalized a new training curriculum, a trainer’s manual, and a training of trainer’s programme for counter-terrorism law enforcement officers on complying with human rights standards while effectively countering terrorism. From 9-12 March, ODIHR organized a training of trainer’s workshop in Warsaw to build the capacities of 10 current and former counter-terrorism officers and human rights experts (9 men and 1 woman) to deliver future training sessions on the basis of ODIHR’s curriculum. From 19-21 October, ODIHR conducted a pre-training assessment visit in Madrid to collect information and adapt the training curriculum to the local context and needs. From 2-3 and 5-6 November, ODIHR delivered, along with police officers from the UK and Spain, two training sessions in Madrid to 38 mid- and senior-level officers (29 men and 9 women) of the Spanish National Police, Guardia Civil, Intelligence Centre against Terrorism and Organized Crime, Penitentiary Institutions, and Regional Police of Spain. During 2015, ODIHR and TNTD/SPMU started to develop a new training programme on the basis of their joint manual on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations12. The programme will include a training curriculum and a trainer’s manual, and will focus on the different sequences of counterterrorism investigations and their potential impact on human rights and on effective policing. The training programme is planned to be finalized in 2017. From 6-10 April, ODIHR and the OSCE Border Management Staff College delivered, for the fifth consecutive year, a weeklong training session on “Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism and Border Security” in Dushanbe. 22 mid- and senior ranking border officials (17 men and 5 women) from 11 OSCE participating States and Afghanistan participated in the course. 12 http://www.osce.org/odihr/108930 133