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Pillage, an international crime with disastrous consequences

01.10.2020 - (Last modified: 13.11.2020)
A message from Elisa Quiroz, Legal Advisor, International Litigation and Investigation   Dear friends, When...
Late July 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Committee pronounced on a series of remarks made by TRIAL International...
Three years of crimes, over 40 victims, two defendants: the trial of two members of the Raya Mutomboki Hamakombo militia...
A case submitted by TRIAL International to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) shows just how vulnerable opponents of...

DRC: three militiamen convicted in Kalehe

07.09.2020 - (Last modified: 08.09.2020)
On 22 August 2020 three members of a militia in South Kivu were convicted by the Bukavu military tribunal. Bitale Leonar...
On 19 July 2020, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) rendered its’ first decisio...
Each 30 August, the world remembers that enforced disappearances is a widespread crime in many countries. Often used to...
In partnership with over 40 Burundian and international NGOs, TRIAL International co-signed a letter to the Permanent Re...

Giving close support to victims in DRC

21.08.2020 - (Last modified: 20.08.2020)
In order to reach out to the most isolated populations, many Congolese organizations do not hesitate to enter the heart...

Yahya Jammeh

29.07.2020 - (Last modified: 04.04.2022)
Facts Yahya Jammeh was born in 1969 in Kanilai in Gambia. In 1984, he entered gendarmerie and gradually made his way to the top, reaching the position of commander of the military police, a position which he held between 1991 and 1992. On 22 July 1994, he came to power following a coup d’état. A transitional government was subsequently established and lasted until 19...

Enforced disappearances in Burundi, a widespread practice

28.07.2020 - (Last modified: 05.01.2021)
Since 2015, several political opponents and activists have disappeared without a trace. Burundian authorities, which hav...

Gambia: No Justice for 2005 Massacre of Migrants

21.07.2020 - (Last modified: 15.07.2021)
The families of more than 50 Ghanaian and other West African migrants killed in The Gambia and Senegal 15 years ago have...
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