Rule of law

Key priorities in this area are to strengthen the independence of the judiciary and to assist the legal reform process. Promoting the participation of all ethnic communities in public life is an important tool to secure equal access of all citizens to justice, which in turn helps strengthen democratic progress in the country. The Mission organizes train-the-trainers courses and prepares educational materials, monitors the legislative process and offers technical comments to the judiciary, provides expertise to law makers to support the legislative drafting process and also makes legal resource material available. It monitors trials of high profile cases that might have an impact on the security situation or inter-ethnic relations in the country, and helps establish an objective and merit-based system to evaluate the work of public prosecutors.