Democratization a manner that is both sustainable and appropriate in the local legal context. With the goal of facilitating the professional development of legal professionals working on war crimes cases in the region, ODIHR delivers targeted training to judges, prosecutors, investigators and their support staff on specific war-crimes-related matters. In a similar vein, ODIHR also provides training and legal and other support staff to selected legal institutions throughout the region. Overall, the project has ensured the hiring of 32 support staff working on war crimes in legal institutions in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. These institutions have expressed their commitment to retain the maximum number of these support staff beyond the project’s time span. The project also facilitates development of the training capacities of professionals in the region on international humanitarian and criminal law, by increasing their direct access to war-crimes-related knowledge, expertise and information existing at the ICTY and elsewhere in the region. In the course of 2011, a comprehensive international criminal law training curriculum will be published and an e-learning portal allowing for web-based self-learning for professionals dealing with war crimes will go online. Furthermore, the capacity of war crimes defence counsel is being strengthened through the development of a manual on most effective and innovative practices utilized by the Association of Defence Counsel practicing before the ICTY and training on an array of war-crimesrelevant topics. The project also transcribes recordings of ICTY proceedings in selected cases and translates the transcripts into the languages of the region and has also undertaken to translate a research tool on case law of the ICTY Appeals Chamber. More than 15,000 pages were transcribed in 2010. By the end of the project, more than 140,000 transcript pages are to be completed. Strengthening Capacity for Legislative Reform Decisions to conduct legal reform are ordinarily taken at higher levels of government and legislatures. At the working level, it is the drafters of legislation who must reflect political undertakings and decisions in law, often in the face of new and complex legislative issues, and sometimes lacking the relevant expertise to complete the task. ODIHR provides the necessary 24 ODIHR Annual Report 2010 expertise to bridge this gap by assessing compliance of draft laws with relevant standards, making recommendations for improvement, and sharing good practices to help lawmakers explore other options. This process is often followed by roundtable consultations with legislators and civil society on draft laws. Often, work on one review will lead to further reviews on related issues. A good example of this in 2010 was ODIHR’s assessment of the draft Amendments to the Moldovan Criminal Code Related to Hate Crimes. The recommendations were aimed at ensuring the compliance of the draft legislation with international standards and OSCE commitments and were discussed at a roundtable in Chisinau in June 2010. This roundtable, organized by ODIHR and the OSCE Mission to Moldova, brought together Moldovan authorities and prosecutors and lawenforcement officials from the United Kingdom and France, and explored how to investigate hate crimes in practice. Due to the proximity of the issues, the Moldovan Ministry of Justice also requested ODIHR’s review of the draft Law on the Prevention and Fight against Discrimination once the hate-crimes related review had been completed. This review was submitted in October. ODIHR’s work in the area of legislative reform sometimes follows up on other activities of the Office. For example, following the publication of ODIHR’s Final Report on its Trial Monitoring Project in Armenia, ODIHR received a number of requests from other public institutions in Armenia to review amendments to criminal procedure drafted in response to the Final Report. These included the review of the “Concept Paper on the Reform of Criminal Procedure Legislation”, as well as reviews of the Armenian Criminal Procedure Code and of modifications to Armenian criminal legislation related to acts of contempt of court. Both the Concept Paper and the reform of the Criminal Procedure Code were discussed at an expert meeting organized by ODIHR and the OSCE Office in Yerevan, in co-operation with the Armenian Ministry of Justice, in November. ODIHR reviews were also conducted on legislation or draft legislation dealing with the following issues: freedom of assembly, domestic violence, combating trafficking in human beings, freedom of association, financing of political parties, freedom of religion, criminal sanctions and disciplinary procedures against members of the armed forces, and