Human Rights organizations - Centre for Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Osijek; Documenta – Centre for Dealing with Past, Zagreb and Civic Committee for Human Rights, Zagreb; have been monitoring war crimes trials at the courts of the Republic of Croatia since 2005.

Since the very beginning, the project team is reporting on tendencies and offers recommendations for the improvement of the war crimes trial proceedings, stressing the importance of the efficient and just proceedings in the criminal law cases with the equal respect of both defendants and suspects, and the rights of victims and witnesses, as well as the work of the judicial system in general in relation to the right to a fair trial.