DEMOCRATIZATION  Expert Groups, Guidelines and Resources for Legislators Throughout the year, ODIHR continued to work with its Panel of Experts on Freedom of Assembly and Association and its Core Group of Experts on Political Parties to provide expertise and advice to participating States on crafting human rights-compliant legislation. These bodies also continued to work closely with the Office to ensure that the Guidelines on Freedom of Assembly and Guidelines on Political Party Regulation remain up-to-date toolkits to assist legislators in their reform efforts. ODIHR launched a new version of the legislative database Legislationline. org. The online database is designed to assist the OSCE participating States in bringing their legislation in line with OSCE commitments and other international standards on 18 human dimension topics, including the independence of the judiciary, fair trial rights, elections and referenda, gender equality and protecting human rights in the course of countering terrorism. The new, more user-friendly website is available in English and Russian. Mainstreaming Gender and Diversity in Legislative Assistance ODIHR continued its efforts to ensure that gender is mainstreamed throughout its legislative assistance work. Building on measures introduced in 2015, a “quick gender checklist for legal reviews” was developed, and a mechanism has been set up to monitor how previous legal reviews on respective human dimension topics : :  27 have addressed gender issues, with a view to compiling this information into an easily accessible reference tool. As a result, in 2018 gender aspects were specifically addressed in 11 of 19 ODIHR’s completed legal reviews. ODIHR also continued to mainstream gender and diversity in its democratic law-making activities, with a particular focus on the inclusiveness of public consultation processes and mechanisms for gender- and d ­ iversity-mainstreaming draft legislation. Informational video on Legislationline.