32  : :  HUMAN RIGHTS Miami, United States, 11 March 2018. Tatiana Kotlyarenko, ODIHR Adviser on Anti-Trafficking Issues, discusses with the United States Border Patrol during her National Referral Mechanism (NRM) assessment visit to the United States. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Keith Smith) When fears of terrorist threats run high, the potential human rights impact of measures to counter those threats is often forgotten. A new ODIHR publication released in September, Guidelines for Addressing the Threats and Challenges of “Foreign Terrorist Fighters” within a Human Rights Framework, assists states in upholding human rights and the rule of law in their counterterrorism efforts. ODIHR also continued to organize national and regional events to raise awareness and discuss the importance of detention monitoring for the protection of human rights while preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism (VERLT) in prisons. As part of its collaboration with the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), ODIHR contributed human rights expertise to regional and national seminars on terrorism- and VERLTrelated subjects. ODIHR provided support on human rights compliant and gender sensitive approaches to security sector and defence institutions throughout the year. In July, the Office released a baseline study on Women in the Armed Forces in the OSCE region, tracking barriers to and opportunities in women’s participation in the armed forces. To help address domestic violence among the families of armed forces personnel in Ukraine, ODIHR presented a set of recommendations for military commanders at strategic, tactical and operational levels to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in June in Kyiv. In a series of roundtable discussions facilitated by ODIHR, human rights defenders and state officials engaged in frank discussions and jointly formulated recommendations to address gaps in the protection of human rights defenders. An expert meeting focusing on the human rights situation in Crimea was held in June in Kherson, Ukraine, in co-operation with the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, gathering 28 participants (15 women, 13 men). Eighty people worked to improve the protection of human rights defenders at events promoting dialogue between human rights defenders and state officials in August in Podgorica (23 women, 14 men) and in September in Ulaanbaatar (25 women, 18 men). Providing participating States with guidance on preventing and combating human trafficking through multi-agency, gender-sensitive approaches remained the core of ODIHR’s anti-trafficking work. To inform the process of updating its 2004 handbook on National Referral Mechanisms (NRMs), ODIHR conducted