[ Human Rights ] Police trainer Jean-Pierre Devos explains the importance of respecting human rights during counterterrorism activities at a training course organized by ODIHR, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 16 September 2011. (OSCE/S. Andrews) “Regional Workshop on NHRIs in Compliance with the Paris Principles and their Role in Torture Prevention in Central Asia.” The event, hosted by the Human Rights Ombudsman of Tajikistan on 12 and 13 October in Dushanbe, gathered more than 50 participants, including ombudspersons, parliamentarians, government officials, diplomats and representatives of civil society from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Human Rights Training and Education Because governments are responsible for providing human rights education in schools and universities, as well as to civil servants, the implementation of such programmes should take place within a legislative or policy framework to ensure sustainability. In 2011 ODIHR began the development of four sets of guidelines on human rights education (for secondary schools, law-enforcement officials, public health professionals and human rights activists, respectively) aimed at promoting good practices in human rights education. This innovative work is part of a consultative process involving various stakeholders in follow-up to the 2009 regional forum “Human Rights Education: Achievements, Lessons Learned and Perspectives”, held in Vilnius, and the 2010 workshop “Moving Towards Human Rights Education Standards”, which took place in Istanbul. These initiatives received broad support among education professionals working in schools, universities and in-service training institutions, as well as those in the non-formal training environment. The initial documents were drafted in collaboration with working groups, and the final versions are being elaborated on the basis of input provided by an additional group of human rights practitioners representing all OSCE geographical regions and groups, such as trainers, educational administrators, NGO specialists and representatives from NHRIs, as well as inter-governmental agencies, such as the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the UN OHCHR. These guidelines have been elaborated with reference to key policy and resource documents promulgated by the United Nations, regional human rights bodies and other agencies, and are intended for programme designers, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders. They serve as a measuring stick for quality programming, setting benchmarks in the short term and beyond, and as a resource for those interested in initiating, expanding or reviewing human rights education activities. ODIHR plans to finalize the four documents in 2012. In 2011 ODIHR also expanded its human rights education activities in Central Asia. At the request of ODIHR Annual Report 2011 45