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feedback and input on a draft guidance document ODIHR is preparing to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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