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The purpose of this report is to assist UNMIK to develop mechanisms to ensure that police, courts, administrative tribunals and other judicial structures operate in accordance with international standards of criminal justice and human rights.

This report analyses access-to-counsel and effectiveness-of-counsel issues during the investigative hearings until indictment.

Security remains the overriding concern for ethnic minorities in Kosovo. This fifth joint UNHCR/OSCE report examines security trends and incidents affecting minorities from February through May 2000.

This report analyses access-to-counsel and effectiveness-of-counsel issues at two stages of the criminal process: first, during the period from arrest until the first detention hearing; and second, during the first detention hearing.

This UNMIK Regulation is an instrument designed as a response to a climate of lawlessness fuelled by the material and institutional vacuum which has beset the Kosovo criminal justice system.

This report focuses on the right to equality before the law as relates to proceedings monitored by the Legal System Monitoring Section (LSMS) from the beginning of its monitoring activity on 18 August 1999 until 27 March 2000.

This is the fourth in a series of thematic reports released by the Legal System Monitoring Section of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

This report reviews the applicable law relating to the length of detention and highlights some areas that may conflict with international standards.

This is the fourth joint UNHCR/OSCE assessment on the situation of minorities in Kosovo, covering the period November 1999 through January 2000.

The aim of this report is to raise curiosity and awareness about International Human Rights Day and the first Kosovo International Human Rights Conference.