Pursuant to Rule 15(2) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence for the Specialist Chamber of the Constitutional Court, a Constitutional Court Panel may request additional information or submissions, as deemed necessary, in relation to a Referral made under Article 49 of the Law on Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office.

The following are submissions of the Ombudsperson, made upon request of the Specialist Chamber of the Constitutional Court in relation to a Referral:

The KSC and the SPO are required to uphold fundamental protections enshrined within Chapter II of the Kosovo Constitution and to act in compliance with international human rights law. The Ombudsperson’s activities include the power to conduct inquiries into complaints received. The following are published reports on complaint inquiries issued by the Ombudsperson:

In 2020, the KSC continued to receive invaluable feedback and recommendations on its outreach and communications activities from the Court Information Network (CIN), a forum established by the KSC in 2018, consisting of a group of 15 NGOs from Kosovo and Serbia. Following the publication of the first indictment, the President and the Registrar addressed the CIN in October in an interactive  online discussion about the start of proceedings and its impact on future communication needs.

In partnership with the NGOs Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo, AKTIV and Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo, the KSC hosted four online lectures involving a total of 70 students from Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2020. The aim was to disseminate information about the court, answer questions from the audience and hear their concerns. The students came from Mitrovica University, IBCM, the HLC Transitional Justice workshop, the YIHR National Mock Trial, and the YIHR-USAID Youth Exchange programme on Dealing with the past.