Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeOffice for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Document Group
Rule of Law Publications
ODIHR and the Rule of Law
A factsheet explaining the work of the OSCE/ODIHR in assisting OSCE participating States in living up to their rule of law commitments.
Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights
The Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights aims at building the capacity of legal practitioners to conduct professional trial monitoring by providing them with a comprehensive description of fair trial rights coupled with practical checklists based on the experience of OSCE trial monitoring operations. ()
Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners, Revised edition 2012
This manual is intended primarily for practitioners involved in trial monitoring. It will, however, be of interest to anyone seeking information on trial monitoring and should also be useful to anyone involved in reforming the justice system. ()
Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: Second Edition
The Guidelines offer a practical toolkit for legislators and practitioners responsible for implementing laws by drawing on good-practice examples from national legislations in European and OSCE participating States and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights to illustrate the various legislative options used to regulate issues pertaining to the freedom of assembly. ()
![Front cover of "Supporting the Transition Process: Lessons learned and best practices in knowledge transfer: Final report" (OSCE)](http://www.osce.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/hires/a/e/75474.JPG?1297174819 "Front cover of "Supporting the Transition Process: Lessons learned and best practices in knowledge transfer: Final report" (OSCE)")
Supporting the Transition Process: Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Knowledge Transfer
This is the final report on the first phase in a project aimed at supporting the transfer of knowledge and experience from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to national jurisdictions in South-Eastern Europe.
![Front cover of "The Fight against Torture" (OSCE)](http://www.osce.org/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/hires/8/7/82099_0.jpg?1370438628 "Front cover of "The Fight against Torture" (OSCE)")
Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners
A manual based on the experience of OSCE trial-monitoring projects. ()
Criminal-Justice Systems in the OSCE Area
This 8-page leaflet describes the main issues related to criminal-justice reform in the OSCE area and provides an overview of ODIHR activities in this field.