Human Rights
Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Assembly and Association, giving the keynote address at
the OSCE’s Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Assembly and Association, Vienna, 8 November 2012.
(OSCE/Jonathan Perfect)
organizations across the OSCE
region shared good practices in
human rights education for law
enforcement officials and highlighted different ways to improve
teaching approaches, methodologies and course evaluation, as well
as other aspects of the curriculum.
ODIHR continued to provide support to civil society organizations
in monitoring public assemblies.
In February, jointly with the international NGO Human Rights
Foundation and the Georgian NGO
Human Rights Centre, ODIHR
organized an event in Tbilisi with
approximately 70 human rights
defenders and the participation of
Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and association.
The event was mainly intended to
discuss challenges and good practices in freedom of assembly and
association in European countries.
In this context, one roundtable
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discussion was devoted to the presentation of a freedom of assembly
monitoring report, prepared by
the Human Rights Centre with the
support of ODIHR, following the
systematic monitoring of assemblies
in Georgia carried out in 2011.
ODIHR also provided training in
assembly-monitoring methodology
to local NGOs in Serbia and Azerbaijan, in partnership with OSCE
field offices to promote the freedom
of peaceful assembly.
Building on the work carried out
in 2011 to support NHRIs in the
OSCE area, on 17 and 18 October in Warsaw, ODIHR organized
an expert roundtable for NHRIs
to facilitate the exchange of ideas
and discussion on future work to
support NHRIs. The meeting was
attended by representatives of
NHRIs, intergovernmental organizations, OSCE field operations and
international experts.
ODIHR also continued to support
OSCE field operations and other
OSCE structures in providing human
rights training and facilitating the
exchange of information on human
rights issues between OSCE actors.
In the context of torture prevention,
in November ODIHR organized a
roundtable with the participation of
international experts and OSCE field
presences seeking to draw on experiences and lessons learned across
the OSCE and to identify how best
ODIHR can promote and facilitate
work to prevent torture and other
ill-treatment.
Human Rights and AntiTerrorism
In partnership with the OSCE Office
in Tajikistan, in 2012 ODIHR completed a project to support Tajik
law enforcement institutions to
develop a training programme on
the protection of human rights while
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