Practice guides

Benchbook on the Adjudication of International Crimes (USAID J4A, UpRights, Global Rights Compliance, NSJ, 2023) [English | Ukrainian] This Benchbook is designed to assist Ukrainian judges in the fair and effective adjudication of international crimes under Ukrainian domestic law in accordance with international norms and domestic law and procedure.

Handbook for Legal Professionals in Ukraine: Ensuring the Fairness of Conflict-Related Trials (T.M.C. Asser Instituut, 2025) [English | Ukrainian] This Handbook covers crucial aspects of ensuring fairness in conflict-related cases, including upholding the presumption of innocence, ensuring independent and impartial courts, promoting adversarial proceedings and the right to a defence, respecting rights during investigations and pre-trial detention, addressing the length of proceedings, approaching evidence properly, and in absentia trials. It recommends legislative amendments to align with international standards while empowering practitioners to utilise existing frameworks to develop practice.

ICRC, War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and their source in International Humanitarian Law Comparative Table [English | Ukrainian] The table aims to identify the origin of the terms used in the Rome Statute's definitions of war crimes, and highlight the differences in wording and content between those definitions and obligations arising under IHL instruments.

Nils Melzer, International Humanitarian Law: A Comprehensive Introduction (ICRC, 2019) [English | Ukrainian] Publication of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presenting contemporary issues related to international humanitarian law (IHL) in an accessible and comprehensive manner in line with the ICRC’s reading of the law.

'Basic Investigative Standards for Documenting International Crimes in Ukraine' (Global Rights Compliance (through the MATRA-Ukraine Project), 2023) [English | Ukrainian] A handbook aimed at supporting efforts to collect and preserve evidential information relating to international crimes by civil society organisations, human rights defenders and other practitioners in the Ukrainian territory through drawing on standards and best practices derived from both Ukrainian and international law.
UNESCO, Protection of Cultural Property: Military Manual [English] [Ukrainian] This manual combines a military-focused account of the relevant international legal obligations of states and individuals with suggestions as to best military practice at the different levels of command and during the different phases of military operations. It covers the sources of the international rules on the protection of cultural property in armed conflict, best practices in the protection of cultural property, and jurisprudence on the protection of cultural property in armed conflict.