Human Rights ODIHR expert Ihar Kuzminich delivers a presentation to police trainers of the S.A. Niyazov Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan during a course on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, Ashgabat, 14 March 2012. (OSCE/ Svetlana Ostroushenko) (HRGS) programme, which builds on ODIHR’s earlier work with the security sector. A mapping exercise was carried out in 2012 to help identify current gaps when promoting and protecting human rights and women’s rights, as well as when seeking to achieve gender equality and ethnic diversity in the security sector. It identified significant potential for the HRGS programme to conduct a wide range of activities that would help build bridges between civil society and state actors and share good practices on issues such as anti-discrimination mechanisms and human rights monitoring of the security sector. ODIHR continued to provide training on gender in the security sector to a variety of actors in OSCE participating States. Based on its Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit, in 2012 ODIHR organized and led seven training events, with a total of 172 participants. Training 50 ODIHR Annual Report 2012 was delivered in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Tajikistan. The training covered a range of issues related to the integration of a gender perspective in security-sector policies and institutions, gender and border management, and police responses to domestic violence. Participants included representatives of police forces, border security agencies and other state bodies. Helping police officers better respond to cases of domestic violence was the focus of training organized by ODIHR and partners in Kyrgyzstan and Georgia on 8 and 11 June, respectively. The training session in Kyrgyzstan, organized in co-operation with the Interior Ministry and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, provided senior law enforcement management with insight into developing strategies for mainstreaming gender considerations into their work, so police can be more effective in responding to cases of domestic violence. The training session in Georgia, organized in cooperation with UN Women and the Interior Ministry, was held in Gori and focused on improving the quality of police response to reported incidents of domestic violence in settlements of internally displaced persons. Two training events on fundamental gender concepts and one training for trainers were delivered at the OSCE Border Management Staff College. ODIHR facilitated and contributed to ongoing discussion on ways to mainstream gender and human rights in the security sector. The Office was active in the first annual Discussion on the Implementation of the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, in Vienna, highlighting the need to mainstream human rights and gender in the implementation process.