22   DEMOCRATIZATION Lina Charašauskait, Chief Specialist of Division of Equal Opportunities at Latvia's Ministry of the Social Security and Labour at and ODIHR workshop in Riga, 17 March 2016. (European Migration Network Latvian Contactpoint/Stanislavs Lopatinskis) “ This workshop provided an excellent opportunity to exchange good practices in integration of immigrants and lessons learned by states. We believe that the conclusions of this event may be used to improve the Immigration Law of Latvia, introducing a new Chapter on immigrant integration.”  Maira Roze, the Deputy Head of the Latvian Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, commenting on the workshop Good Practices in Integration of Migrants in line with OSCE Commitments and International Legal Standards held in Riga, 17-18 March 2016. and experience on the integration of migrants and OSCE commitments at an ODIHR event held in partnership with the Latvian authorities on 17 and 18 March in Riga. Recommendations from this expert workshop, including the need to support the important roles of local government and civil society in migrant integration, are being taken forward through the development of training resources, support to civil society and academic initiatives, and policy research. Building capacities for migrant integration and rights protection With the protection of migrants’ rights and migrant integration high on the agenda of many participating States, ODIHR responded to a number of requests for technical support from States, providing a series of training workshops that built the capacities of national migration authorities and relevant civil society actors, and promoted the exchange of relevant good practices. ODIHR organized workshops for nearly 300 participants in Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovenia and Turkey, in co-operation with OSCE Field Operations. ODIHR continues to co-ordinate efforts with other relevant international organizations, and in 2016 collaborated with both the UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration on training delivery in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Lithuania. Against a background of hostility towards legal and irregular migrants in several states, ODIHR also paid attention in 2016 to the need to strengthen measures protecting regular labour migration, and engaged 80 officials and specialised civil society professionals in training workshops to help authorities develop gender-sensitive labour migration policies in Moldova and in Serbia (in co-operation with Participants discuss an exercise at the ODIHR training workshop on rights of migrants, Turkey, June 2016. (OSCE/Necla Uz)