
Ensuring justice
Work in this thematic area will focus on prisons and police (including human rights in policing, healthcare in prisons and safeguards against torture and ill-treatment), human rights standards in the judiciary (focusing on enhancing the application of case-law of the European Court of Human Rights), the efficiency of justice systems (with a focus on analysing judicial statistics to optimise court administrations) and/or legal co-operation (which will concentrate on increasing the individual independence of judges and prosecutors and the accountability of the judicial system).

Actions under Theme 1: Ensuring justice
Enhancing the protection of human rights of prisoners in Albania
Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Albania
Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Montenegro
Accountability of the Judicial System in Montenegro
Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Serbia
Supporting effective remedies and mutual legal assistance in Serbia
Strengthening legal guarantees for independent and impartial tribunals (available in English and Serbian)
Enhancing the protection of human rights of prisoners in Kosovo*
Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Kosovo*
Enhancing human rights policing in 'the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'
Support to legal aid reforms in 'the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia' (available in English and Macedonian)

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.




