34  : :  HUMAN RIGHTS Helsinki, 4 June 2018. Representatives of national human rights institutions from the OSCE region get to know each other during the opening session of the fifth NHRI Academy co-organized by ODIHR and the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). (Matti Vartiainen) “ The NHRI Academy provided me an opportunity to learn from peers in other countries and to share and discuss methods for working more closely with human rights defenders on human rights issues in our countries.” Saba Brachveli, Chief Specialist at the Public Defender’s Office in Georgia mechanisms (NPMs), ODIHR and the Association for the Prevention of Torture organized a second OSCE-wide meeting of senior representatives from NPMs and civil society organizations, in December in Milan. Participants discussed ways to strengthen regional cohesion and joint advocacy efforts for the rights of persons in immigration detention. Also, members of the Polish NPM gained knowledge about documenting the use of weapons and restraints in law enforcement activities at an ODIHR training event in October in Warsaw. A series of ODIHR training workshops allowed 29 civil society members, from Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine (16 women, 13 men), and 89 staff members (26 women, 63 men) from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to increase their skills in independent assembly monitoring techniques. In addition, 26 representatives of civil society groups and OSCE field operations (15 women, 11 men) from 16 OSCE participating States exchanged experiences and identified means of co-operation at ODIHR’s 3rd Assembly Monitoring Roundtable in December in Vienna. Forty-eight law enforcement officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia (4 women, 44 men) and 15 law enforcement trainers (8 women, 7 men) from Ukraine built their skills in a series of ODIHR training workshops on human rights compliant policing of assemblies. The reach of ODIHR’s Human Rights Handbook on Policing Assemblies expanded via translations into Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian and Ukrainian languages. Helping human rights defenders harness the potential of technology is the aim of several new ODIHR capacity-building initiatives. At a pilot Open Source Human Rights Monitoring training for human rights defenders in December in Berlin, 27 defenders (14 women, 13 men) learned how to analyze videos and images, investigate social media and perform Open Source human rights data collection and verification. Twenty-seven human rights defenders from Central Asia and the South Caucasus had the opportunity to meet with EU officials and to discuss how to mitigate economic, political and security challenges in their regions during a visit to Brussels organized by ODIHR and the European Parliament in March. Law enforcement officers from Albania, Spain and Uzbekistan acquired knowledge and skills about human rights and counter-terrorism issues in five ODIHR