HUMAN RIGHTS  : :  33 Kyiv, 3 October 2018. Ukrainian civil servants participate in an excercise to identify the key elements of national human rights strategies and action plans during a workshop organized by ODIHR. (OSCE) Women made up 52% of the 1,920 participants at human rights events in 2018. NRM assessment visits to Spain, the United States and Uzbekistan. The gender dynamics of trafficking in human beings came into focus at a UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) side event “#MeToo” Say Survivors: Human Rights, Gender and Trafficking in Human Beings, which ODIHR organized in partnership with UN agencies and civil society groups. The event led to the creation of the 5.2 Global Partnership, a multi-stakeholder group that advocates for the implementation of the sustainable development goal target 5.2, on eliminating violence against women and girls. State and local officials and civil society involved in anti-trafficking efforts in Uzbekistan exchanged experiences with NRMs during a study visit to Georgia and Spain, co-organized by ODIHR and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in October. Government authorities, religious or belief communities and other stakeholders in Spain obtained Spanish-language guidance on the implementation of OSCE commitments on freedom of religion or belief, with a new translation of the ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities, launched in October in Madrid. Education specialists (11 women, 4 men) in Belarus discussed the integration of human rights education into curricula and educational strategies at a workshop in Minsk in August. As a result of the workshop, the Ministry of Education established a working group that will analyze educational curricula and strategies according to a framework of learning competences for human rights education, and the development of new curricula and supporting materials. CAPACITY BUILDING Staff of NHRIs from 27 participating States gained skills in applying a human rights and gender-based approach in reviewing legislation and in effectively supporting human rights defenders during the fifth edition of the NHRI Academy, organized in partnership with the European Network for NHRIs (ENNHRI) and hosted by the Finnish Human Rights Centre in June in Helsinki. Participants later applied their insights and skills, for example by organizing training in their institutions and by improving their co-operation with human rights defenders. During the Academy, ODIHR also signed an agreement with ENNHRI laying the basis for future joint activities. As part of continued efforts to promote the important role of national preventive