Publications

A factsheet about ODIHR’s work in supporting legal reform in participating States by reviewing, upon request, individual pieces of draft and existing legislation to ensure clarity and coherence, as well as compliance with OSCE commitments and international human rights standards.

A factsheet explaining the work of the OSCE/ODIHR in assisting OSCE participating States in living up to their rule of law commitments.

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.

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.

The Trial Monitoring Programme was developed by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in partnership with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The analysis in this final report includes a summary of the findings for the entire monitoring period. It compares the current situation with the findings of the first two interim reports. It notes any differences between Chişinău courts and those located in the southeast of the country. In addition, this final report presents the Moldovan legal community, the donor community and other interested parties with a series of recommendations on how the problems identified might be addressed.

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.

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

A manual based on the experience of OSCE trial-monitoring projects.

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.

This thematic compilation is Volume 1 of the two-volume second edition of this publication.