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).
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