events in 2016. for Roma and Sinti events in 2016. HUMAN RIGHTS   29 Women made up 45% of participants at Human Rights events in 2016. “ This training has surpassed all my expectations. Thanks to this made upworkshop, I understood that identifying human rights violations is not enough: While more ofefforts participants are needed to atraise Tolerance public and awareness on the importance Non-Discrimination to protect events in human 2016. rights, it is crucial to take position and act in an impartial and professional way, according to the human rights monitoring principles”. Women 45% Sofija Todorovic, Youth Initiative for Human Rights Participant in the Human Rights Defenders training in Budva, Montenegro police commanders on human rights compliant policing of assemblies. In total, 47 participants from across Ukraine took part in the sessions, based on the newly developed ODIHR Human Rights Handbook on Policing Assemblies and the related training manual. The training sessions discussed several assembly-policing made up challenges, including the facilitation of assemblies of members of vulnerable groups, and paid special attention to promoting a differentiated policing approach. From 14 to 18 November in Madrid, ODIHR also delivered a training session on anti-terrorism and human rights standards for 20 Spanish law-enforcement officers engaged in counter-terrorism activities. ODIHR continued to offer training on human rights protection in countering terrorism. On 17 and 18 October and 17 and 18 November, two pilot training sessions on Human Rights in Counter-Terrorism Investigations were delivered in Tirana and Madrid, respectively. Both training sessions were organized as part of a joint ODIHR - OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threat Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit project aimed at developing a curriculum for law-enforcement officers focusing on human rights protection in counter-terrorism investigations. Altogether, the events brought together 32 participants among counter-terrorism practitioners from the police, intelligence services and prosecution authorities. On 1 and 2 December ODIHR, in co-operation with the European Union Advisory Mission in Ukraine and the NGO La Strada Ukraine, organized a train-the-trainer course that brought together 28 police educators and officers from various regions of Ukraine. The event, held in Odessa, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of police responses to sexual and gender-based violence. The activity was hosted by the Odessa State University of Internal Affairs and supported by the Ukraine Interior Ministry. Women From 22 to 24 November, ODIHR held the final workshop on human rights monitoring and advocacy for its implementing partners as part of the Office’s project onStrengthening Dialogue among Civil Society and of participants with Key Government Stakeholders in Ukraine on Human Dimension Issues. atinthe 2016 HumanThe workshop gathered 30 represenFrom 17 to 21 October Budva, Implementation tatives from 14 civil society organizaMontenegro, ODIHR Dimension delivered a traintions from Ukraine and the Russian ing workshop on human rights monmeeting. Federation that have, since February itoring and the safety and security of 2016, implemented, with ODIHR’s human rights defenders. Twenty-five support, joint human rights monitoring human rights defenders from Eastern and dialogue, and co-operation initiaand Central Europe, the Western tives between organizations of the Balkans and Turkey attended the two participating states. training. 42%