Reconciliation The OSCE also provided extensive capacity building and technical support to improve the quality and efficiency of war crimes processing. This support included seminars, peer-to-peer meetings, and training of trainers across the entire spectrum of the justice sector, such as judges, prosecutors, witness support officers, defence attorneys, police investigators, and legal support staff. The programme set out a plan to better equip and organize the judiciary to process war crimes cases in a manner compliant with international legal norms and human rights standards. Later on, the OSCE published a report that examined the implementation progress of the National Strategy for War Crimes Processing. The report included findings from trials that were monitored by the OSCE, dealing with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The report further assessed the extent to which the framework for war crimes processing had increased the delivery of justice in conflict-crimes cases, as well as the overall efficiency of the criminal justice system in the country. 2. Justice for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence A conflict that engulfed several countries in the region was characterized by widespread and systematic rape and other forms of sexual violence against women, girls, men and boys of different ethnicities and members of national minorities. The different types of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV),15 including systematic rape and sexual slavery, was used by all conflict parties as a tactic to humiliate, intimidate, and displace by force civilians 15  CoE PA Resolution (2009). 75

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