HUMAN RIGHTS   27 meeting of experts on Human Rights Education in the Digital Age, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meeting gathered experts in media communications, software development, psychology and human rights, to explore potential applications of technology to advance human rights education and the work of human rights defenders. Stephanie Selg, the OSCE/ODIHR Advisor on Torture Prevention, addressing participants in an OSCE workshop on rehabilitation for victims of torture, 12 October 2016, Vienna. (OSCE/ Micky Kroell) participants reviewed specific aspects of international standards related to guarantees the of independence and pluralism of NHRIs and identified good practices and lessons learned in ensuring these. They also discussed actions to provide sustainable operational guidance on the issue for NHRIs. “ This meeting allowed us to discuss sustainable operational guidance for NHRIs, which will help NHRIs to be better equipped to address present and future challenges.” Adam Bodnar, Polish Commissioner for Human Rights, at ODIHR’s 28-29 November meeting on the independence of NHRIs On 14 and 15 December in Vienna ODIHR organized its second assembly monitoring roundtable, with 34 participants of civil society organizations and OSCE field operations from 19 OSCE participating States. The roundtable facilitated the exchange of experiences and good practices in the monitoring of assemblies and informed ODIHR of the main trends, challenges and gaps in the area of freedom of peaceful assembly in the OSCE space. On 19 and 20 December in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, ODIHR organized a In 2016, ODIHR worked to develop a tool on preventing and addressing sexual and gender-based violence in places of deprivation of liberty. For this purpose, it organized a meeting of practitioners on 17 and 18 October in Warsaw gathering 19 experts from criminal justice systems, NHRIs and civil society in the OSCE region. The Office also organized a peer-review meeting on 9 December, also in Warsaw, attended by expert representatives of key international NGOs and IGOs to discuss the draft publication. The tool will be finalized in 2017. HUMAN RIGHTS CAPACITY BUILDING ODIHR provided training and capacity building to state and non-state actors, with a view to promoting implementation of OSCE human dimension commitments. In early 2016, ODIHR concluded two projects on freedom of religion or belief in Central Asia and Ukraine. ODIHR organized a training seminar on international standards on freedom of religion or belief for government officials in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 27 and 28 January. On 3 February in Bishkek, ODIHR held a national roundtable on the legal personality of religious