Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

Document Group

Rule of Law Publications

ODIHR and the Rule of Law

9 July 2013
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

26 September 2012
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

26 September 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

25 October 2010
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. ()

Supporting the Transition Process: Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Knowledge Transfer

24 May 2010
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.

The Fight against Torture

10 July 2009
A handbook for practitioners that assembles the OSCE's experience in torture prevention work and identifies best practices and strategies. ()

Trial-Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners

25 April 2008
A manual based on the experience of OSCE trial-monitoring projects. ()

Criminal-Justice Systems in the OSCE Area

4 May 2006
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.