26    HUMAN RIGHTS Speakers at the OSCE/ODIHR seminar “Boosting the reporting on the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda” (left to right): Lieutenant-Colonel Dina Azevedo, the first women to become a military advisor to the President in Portugal; Hannah Bond, Director of the Network Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS), UK; General Kristin Lund, the first woman ever to serve as Force Commander in a United Nations peacekeeping operation, Norway. 11 October 2016, Vienna. (OSCE/Micky Kroell) belief communities and other stakeholders from across the OSCE region. The meetings were aimed at providing feedback and input on a draft guidance document ODIHR is preparing to support participating States in ensuring that any security measures are fully in line with OSCE commitments and other international human rights standards. The document will be published in 2017. On 11 October in Vienna, as part of its Human Rights Discussion Series for the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, ODIHR organized an event on Boosting the Reporting of the Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Thirtyone participants explored how reporting by the OSCE participating States on the ­United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325) can be encouraged and streamlined. On 13 and 14 October, the first of what is planned to be an annual meeting of national preventive mechanisms from the OSCE region took place in Vienna, Austria. The event was organised jointly by ODIHR and the Association for the Prevention of Torture, and aimed at taking stock of achievements and challenges in the OSCE region, 10 years after the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and its national preventive mechanism system. The meeting gathered 59 participants, including high-level representatives of national preventive mechanisms from the OSCE region, experts from the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and representatives from seven OSCE field operations. On 8 and 10 November, ODIHR organized an expert consultation in Kyiv, Information and Dialogue Days on Human Rights in Ukraine, gathering 33 national and international experts to assess progress in the implementation of the recommendations of the joint ODIHR/High Commissioner on National Minorities. Human Rights Assessment Missions in Ukraine (2014) and on Crimea (2015), with a view to identifying priorities for future programmatic activities and engagement by authorities. In Warsaw on 28 and 29 November, a meeting gathering 34 representatives of NHRIs, international organizations and academia was hosted by ODIHR. The event was co-organized by ODIHR, the Council of Europe, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Ombudsman Institute, the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions and the Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights. The

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