Democratization Alex Conte, Representative to the UN for the International Commission of Jurists; Benjamin Moreau, the Chief of ODIHR’s Rule of Law Unit; Maria Alcidi, ODIHR Rule of Law Officer, and Pipina Katsaris, a lawyer specializing in international and criminal law, (l-r) present ODIHR’s new trial monitoring tools during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 26 September 2012. (OSCE/Shiv Sharma) on trial monitoring in 2012 at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw: Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners and the Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights. The Trial Monitoring Manual compiles the knowledge and good practices collected by OSCE trialmonitoring programmes in more than a dozen OSCE countries. The Legal Digest includes a detailed description of fair trial rights, a compilation of the most recent principles and UN Human Rights Committee and European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, and good practices derived from trial monitoring exercises. In 2012, with a view to ­ensuring knowledge transfer to the legal community, ODIHR developed a ODIHR launched two resources on trial monitoring in 2012 at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw: Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners and the Legal Digest of International Fair Trial Rights. 24 ODIHR Annual Report 2012 capacity-building programme in the area of trial monitoring focused on civil society. ODIHR trained 19 NGO representatives and attorneys from Belarus in Vilnius on 25 and 26 June, and 23 from Kyrgyzstan on trial monitoring methodologies and fair trial standards in Osh, on 23 and 24 March. From 10 to 12 September, ODIHR organized the 10th OSCE Annual Trial Monitoring Meeting for Field Operations in Istanbul. The meeting brought together 30 participants, including representatives from ten OSCE field operations and, for the first time, 11 NGOs, with the aim to share expertise and good practices and to develop networks between trial-monitoring practitioners. The meeting also included training on fair-trial ­standards, including topics such as providing access to a lawyer, covert investigation, the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and