[ Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues ] Andrzej Mirga (l), ODIHR’s Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti Issues, and Krisztina Rostás, Senior Councillor responsible for Romani Affairs at the Interior Ministry of Hungary, at a seminar on building trust and understanding between police and Roma, Budapest, 8 November 2011. (OSCE/Anita Danka) country on 20 and 21 August to assess the situation in the field and discuss adequate responses with relevant authorities. In reaction to violent anti-Roma protests in a number of cities in Bulgaria following the death of a young man in Katunitsa in September, ODIHR’s Senior Adviser visited Bulgaria on 14 and 15 November to discuss with the Ministry of Interior measures taken to prevent further violence. He also participated in a conference, hosted by the Bulgarian National Council on Ethnic and Integration Issues (NCEI) on 24 June in Sofia, to discuss the draft National Strategy for Roma Integration (2010-2020), which had been prepared in follow-up to the European Council conclusions on the framework for national Roma integration strategies. ODIHR continued to promote the improvement of relations between police and Roma and Sinti communities. In co-operation with the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit, the OSCE manual Police and Roma and Sinti: Building Trust and Understanding was launched on 8 July in Bucharest, and on 8 November in Budapest. The events aimed at introducing elements of the manual into educational and training curricula for police academies, schools and front-line officers, and at increasing the number of Roma and Sinti serving in ­law-enforcement bodies. ODIHR also facilitated a special session on combating hate crimes against Roma 64 ODIHR Annual Report 2011 at the “Annual Scientific Conference of Prosecutors in Hungary” on 20 and 21 October in Budapest. With regard to addressing the root causes behind the vulnerability of Roma to trafficking in human beings, ODIHR provided expertise and supported financially the production of a study on the social inclusion of Roma in Italy, “Un altra citta e possible”, by the nongovernmental organization Geordie Onlus. The study was launched at an event on 18 April in Rome, during which ODIHR discussed ways to promote integration of Roma, especially those living in camps throughout the city, with municipal officials and Roma civil society representatives. On this occasion, meetings were also held with relevant authorities to discuss implementation of recommendations from an ODIHR report on Italy following a field assessment visit to the country in 2009, in co-operation with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Teaching about the Roma and Sinti genocide and promoting its official recognition Following the declaration of the Polish Parliament recognizing 2 August as the official Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day, ODIHR organized the international seminar “The Roma and Sinti