Crisis Prevention and Recovery in Europe & CIS

Monitoring and Investigating the Security Sector

Author(s): UNDP, DCAF

Recommendations for ombudsman institutions to promote and protect human rights for public security. This report, jointly published by UNDP and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), focuses on the role of ombudsman institutions in monitoring and investigating the security sector. It argues that independent ombudsman institutions can play an important role in strengthening democratic oversight and furthering human and public security.

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