PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2011, UPDATED DECEMBER 2020

This handbook, produced by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), is designed to help civil society organizations engage in independent monitoring of peaceful assemblies and assess their findings in relation to international human rights standards.

It provides a conceptual and methodological framework to guide the independent monitoring of assemblies, based on ODIHR’s methodology. It also incorporates key information gathered in the course of ODIHR’s training programme for assembly monitors, which has been provided for OSCE staff, representatives of civil society organizations and of national human rights institutions in a number of OSCE participating States.

The handbook was originally published in 2011 and updated in 2020.