DEMOCRATIZATION    23 the Mission to Serbia), as well as co-organizing a regional event led by the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, in co-operation with the International Labour Organization and International Organization for Migration on labour migration and gender in Moldova. Facilitating freedom of movement The right to free movement within a state is an essential freedom, enabling choices of where to live or study, with whom to form relationships and associate on a religious or political basis, and the ability to access a range of economic opportunities. While the equivalent right to enter and move freely within another state does not exist, OSCE participating States have adopted a range of commitments that call for the facilitation of crossborder mobility and increased human contacts. ODIHR provides support to OSCE participating States’ reforms of their identity- and identificationmanagement systems to protect the right to freedom of movement, to create conditions for facilitated crossborder mobility, and to enable access to civil rights and services. 2016 saw the start of development of a Compendium of Good Practices in Identity Management to promote good practices in issuance of identification and travel documents, as a measure to facilitate cross-border mobility, which will be published in 2017. This year, ODIHR, in co-operation with the OSCE’s Transnational Threat Department, organized three expert meetings on identity management to feed planning, design and information gathering for the compendium. Identity management experts from OSCE participating States, international organizations and industry discuss good practices at ODIHR offices in Warsaw, Poland, 6 December 2016. (OSCE/ Agnieszka Rembowska) ODIHR continued its tailored support to the State Migration Service within Ukraine’s Interior Ministry in 2016, providing expert advice on the reform of internal structures and work processes for the issuance of travel and identification documents, as well as in the establishment of a state-wide population register. generally to support citizens’ access to civil and political rights, the implementation of e-government services, accurate voter registration and the protection of a range of other human rights – including through presentations at a number of international conferences in 2016, as well as active contributions to international working groups on travel identification and security. ODIHR has also promoted good practices in identity management more “ ODIHR’s technical support helped the State Migration Service develop plans for internal restructuring and improving services delivered to citizens. The access to experience and practices of other states in identity management provided by ODIHR was also important for shaping our reform policies.” Maxym Sokolyuk, Head of the State Migration Service of Ukraine