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We are very pleased that we received contributions to our collection of materials from a number of experts. We hope you appreciate the materials!

Professor Douwe Korff (Professor of international law of the London Metropolitan University) put to your disposal documents (in English) on International Standards in criminal procedures and an outline on the application of the UN Convention Against Torture (under Article 6 and in Themes/fair trial in the left upper box on the homepage). His 'Standard approach of the articles 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11' is displayed under the corresponding Articles in the same box.

We also have two new power point presentations in Russian on Article 3 and Article 5.

In 'Methodology' (also in the left upper box) you will find the full text of the Manual on training methodology translated into French, German, Russian and Serbian.

Please find new versions or new translations of the handbooks on Article 2 in Montenegrin and Turkish, Article 6 in English, French and Serbian, Article 9 in Serbian and Turkish, Protocol 1, Article 1 in Montenegrin and 'positive obligations' in Turkish.

Last but not least we received the contributions of the participants of Themis 2008:

The National Institute of Magistracy of Romania (NIM), in cooperation with the Portuguese Judicial Studies Centre (CEJ) and with the support of the Council of Europe's Lisbon Network and the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), organised the third edition of the THEMIS Competition, an international event especially addressed to trainees of all European magistracy training institutions and schools from 22 to 26 September 2008 in Bucharest (Romania). 17 teams from 15 European countries participated in the competition. The contributions regarding the application of the ECHR are now on line:
- Montenegro and Portugal submitted papers and power point presentations on the application of Article 6 in their country;
- Finland submitted a paper on the hearing of children in criminal procedures and Article 6;
- Bulgaria submitted a paper on challenges for Bulgarian judges in the application of Article 5 and
- Romania submitted a paper and a power point presentation on the Margin of appreciation.

All Themis contributions are displayed under the relevant articles in the drop down menu in the left upper box on the homepage. Romania's contribution can be found under themes/general introduction.

If you have any materials to share with other human rights trainers please do not hesitate to contact me (Hermine Masmeyer). You can find my e-mail address at the bottom of the homepage.

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