44    ANNEXES commitments into practice in local communities. ODIHR’s human dimension meetings provide unique opportunities for these individuals and organizations to come face-to-face and have their voices heard by their own governments and the international community. Participants of human dimension meetings are encouraged to organize side events on relevant human dimension issues to facilitate informal discussions between different partners. HDIM participants actively utilized this opportunity in 2016, organizing more than 90 side events during the two-week long meeting. Eight were organized during the three supplementary meetings and three during the human dimension seminar.