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War crime of Pillage: no more impunity for economic actors

11.08.2022

The Gambia

Swiss authorities are willing to prosecute Swiss economic actors for war crime of pillage, according to an op-ed by Attorney General Stefan Blättler in the newspaper Le Temps. Our director, Philip Grant, explains why this announcement is groundbreaking !

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Pillaged timber in Senegal/The Gambia: Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investi...

18.06.2022

The Gambia

Pillaged timber in Senegal/The Gambia: Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation According to informat...

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The Gambia: The TRRC recommendations should be followed by accountability

12.05.2022

The Gambia

As the Gambian government is working on finalising in the coming weeks the white paper that will provide the roadmap for...

News releases

Germany Tries Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Gambia - Universal Jurisdiction Adva...

21.04.2022 - (Last modified: 02.05.2022)

The Gambia

Berlin, April 21, 2022. The opening of the first German trial for serious crimes committed in Gambia...

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The Gambia : alleged "death squad" member indicted in Germany

03.03.2022

The Gambia

Major Advance for Victims of Abuses During Yahya Jammeh Rule (Berlin and Geneva, 03.03.2022) – The indictment in German...

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The Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) confirms Ousman So...

26.01.2022

The Gambia

Ousman Sonko, accused of crimes against humanity and imprisoned in Switzerland for the past five years, now face...

Opinions

«I will not rest until I have my father’s body to bury.»

16.12.2021

The Gambia

Words from Isaac Mensah, son of Peter Mensah, one of the 56 West African migrants killed in 2005 While the Unit...

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The Gambia : Towards legal action against perpetrators of Jammeh-era crimes

26.11.2021 - (Last modified: 29.11.2021)

The Gambia

Eleven organizations including TRIAL International welcome the submission on Thursday 25 November 2021 of the Gambia Tru...

News releases

The Gambia: UN says perpetrators of Jammeh-era crimes "must be brought to justice"

08.10.2021

The Gambia

The United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances supports prosecution of crimes committed during the presiden...

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Putting faces on the loved ones of disappeared persons

30.08.2021 - (Last modified: 25.08.2021)

The Gambia

A young girl, whose father was reduced to a picture on a mobile phone, a woman who wonders where the love of her life is...

Opinions

A transversal project to fight against enforced disappearances

23.08.2021

Nepal

August 30th marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. An occasion to learn more about this...

Universal jurisdiction database

Michael Sang Correa

22.03.2021 - (Last modified: 04.04.2022)

The Gambia

Facts Michael Sang Correa is an alleged former member of the Junglers, a paramilitary unit in The Gambia. The Junglers are believed to be responsible for carrying out widespread human rights abuses on behalf of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. Under his rule, from 1994 to 2016, human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial k...

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