HUMAN RIGHTS  : :  35 Warsaw, 12 September 2018. Highlights of the intervention of Natalia Taubina, Director of Public Veredict Foundation (Russian Federation) and Anti-Torture Focal Point of the Civil Society Platform, during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. (OSCE/Maria Kuchma) training workshops, including foundational and advanced courses on human rights in counter-terrorism investigations. All workshops were practice-oriented and reinforced how observance of human rights can strengthen the effectiveness of policing in connection with terrorism and VERLT. OSCE field operations in Albania and Uzbekistan supported ODIHR’s efforts in the delivery of advanced training courses on human rights in counter-terrorism investigations, held jointly with the Strategic Police Matters Unit of TNTD. Pilot training for 20 police officers, conducted jointly with TNTD and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in May, will feed into the development of a new training curriculum on community policing approaches in preventing and countering VERLT. After the approval of the first Albanian Action Plan on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325), ODIHR brought together 20 police officers and 15 civil society representatives (31 women, 4 men), in Tirana in October, to work together on addressing gender-based violence and strengthening oversight over the security sector. In Kyrgyzstan at training events in Bishkek and Osh in November, civil society organizations learned about gender mainstreaming the oversight of the security sector within the framework of the country’s recently adopted third Action Plan on UNSCR 1325. A seminar on freedom of religion or belief for 23 religious leaders and other actors contributed to the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process, a peace-building initiative among the religious leaders of Cyprus, who are committed to working together for human rights, peace and reconciliation throughout the island. This first-of-its-kind training event by ODIHR, in co-operation with the Office of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process under the Auspices of the Embassy of Sweden, was held in December in Nicosia in the Home for Co-operation in the United Nations Buffer Zone. The event brought together 23 participants (13 men, 10 women) representing diverse religious or belief communities.  State officials, representatives of religion or belief communities and other stakeholders in Kazakhstan developed recommendations for the country’s government and ODIHR during the concluding event of ODIHR’s project on promoting security and social cohesion through advancing freedom of religion or belief, in February in Astana. Within the framework of the project 33 individuals (16 women, 17 men) completed trainthe-trainer courses and 44 people (12 women, 32 men) participated in training activities in 2018.