Appendix 1 • On 15 May, ODIHR facilitated in Bratislava a workshop on understanding and improvements to hate crime recording and data collection, co-organized with the Slovak MoI and the FRA. The 17 participants (five women and 12 men) included staff of the MoI, police, Prosecutor General’s Office, Ministry of Justice and civil society organizations monitoring hate crime. The participants discussed in detail the shortcomings of the current system to record hate crimes and collect data, as well as possible improvements. The MoI and the police committed themselves to implement the recommendations from the workshop. Following the event, ODIHR and the FRA drafted a report summarizing the main issues and recommendations. In implementing the workshop’s recommendations, before the end of 2018, the Slovak Police President issued a methodological guidance on investigating hate crimes; • On 6 and 7 December, ODIHR, the FRA and Hungary’s MoI co-organized in Budapest a two-day workshop on hate crime recording and data collection for officials from Hungarian law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. The workshop brought together 20 participants (14 men and six women), including police investigators, hate crime specialists and a hate crime co-ordinator from the police headquarters; officers from riot police, intelligence agencies, prosecutors and justice statisticians; as well as a representative of a civil-society organization working with victims of anti-LGBT hate crime. Following the event, ODIHR and the FRA drafted a report summarizing recommendations to the Hungarian authorities and provided it (through the MoI) to the chief of police for implementation; • In the framework of its “Building a Comprehensive Criminal Justice Response to Hate Crime” project, ODIHR organized three joint training sessions on hate crime for police officers and prosecutors in Bulgaria. Thirty-five police officers (31 men and four women) and 36 prosecutors (11 men and 25 women) from Plovdiv, Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo attended the training sessions, which were based on ODIHR’s TAHCLE and PAHCT programmes but customized to the needs of Bulgaria. The evaluation of the event demonstrated that participants had raised their awareness and comprehension of the meaning of prejudice, stereotype, discrimination and hate crime. The lessons learned from the training sessions were used to develop the Manual on Joint Hate Crime Training for Police and Prosecutors – Intended for use in Bulgaria4, which was promoted at a workshop on 12 June in Sofia. High-level representatives of the Bulgarian MoI attended. A result from the joint training of police and prosecutors 4 The Manual is available in English and Bulgarian at www.osce.org/odihr/402275. was the development of the generic “Manual on Joint Hate Crime Training for Police and Prosecutors5”, presented at the closing conference of the project on 14 November in Vienna. In 2018, ODIHR continued to strengthen, through its “Turning Words into Action to Address Anti-Semitism” (WiA) project, the capacity of OSCE participating States and civil society to prevent and respond to anti-Semitism. The project’s security component assists law enforcement officials in addressing the security needs of Jewish communities. ODIHR translated its Guide, Understanding Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes and Addressing the Security Needs of Jewish Communities6, into nine languages. The Office has customized the Guide to the Bulgarian, French and Greek national contexts, based on needs assessment missions. During the past year, ODIHR held five national capacity-building events based on the Guide in Bulgaria, France, Greece, Poland and Slovakia, as well as one local implementation event in Germany and one regional event in the Western Balkans. These events brought together Jewish community security focal points with relevant law enforcement authorities to discuss how they can co-operate so that the security needs of Jewish communities are met. Public Order and Crisis Management In 2018, ODIHR concluded its fourth cycle of assembly monitoring to identify gaps and challenges, as well as examples of good practices, in how participating States meet their commitments on freedom of peaceful assembly. ODIHR monitors (ten women and five men) observed ten assemblies in three participating States: Canada, Lithuania and Norway. The main findings and recommendations of the monitoring exercises will be published in a thematic report in the first quarter of 2019. ODIHR has also been supporting the assembly monitoring of other independent observers. In 2018, 29 civil society members from Belarus, Georgia, the Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine (16 women and 13 men) and 89 staff members (26 women and 63 men) from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo participated in ODIHR training workshops that helped them increase their skills in independent assembly monitoring techniques. Twenty-six representatives of civil society groups and OSCE field operations (15 women and 11 men) from 16 OSCE participating States exchanged experiences and identified ways of co-operation at ODIHR’s third assembly monitoring roundtable event. ODIHR aims to increase the knowledge and skills of law enforcement authorities in facilitating assemblies, while 5 The Manual is available in English at www.osce.org/odihr/402296?download=true. 6 The Guide is available at www.osce.org/odihr/317166. 151