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New publication on accountability
12.09.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Promoting Accountability through the Human Rights Bodies in Geneva
New TRIAL and ICJ publication shows how Geneva-based UN human rights bodies can be used more effectively to combat impunity.
At a side event at the UN Human Rights Council 24th session, TRIAL and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) presented yesterday their newest publication on opport...
How to better promote Accountability?
11.09.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
A side event to the 24th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
On Wednesday September 11th 2013
TRIAL and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) will present on Wednesday 11 September 2013 their latest publication entitled «Promoting Accountability through the Human Rights Bodies in Geneva».
What are the potentials of Geneva-based human rig...
Libya: thirteenth condemnation before the UN
22.08.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Libya is found responsible for the enforced disappearance, torture and death of Ismail Al Khazmi. The NGOs TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) and Alkarama welcome the UN Human Rights Committee decision and urge Libyan authorities to shed light on this and thousands of other cases of gross human rights violations.
TRIAL and Alkarama submitted four cases concerning violat...
Nepal should end impunity for rape perpetrators
12.08.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL and its Nepalese partner HimRights denounce the ongoing impunity for perpetrators of acts of sexual violence committed in Nepal during the conflict (1996-2006) and post-conflict periods in a report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW or the Committee).
The NGO's deplores that not a single case of rape or sex...
No immunity for Algerian former defence Minister
31.07.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Geneva, 31 July 2012
The Federal Criminal Court (FCC) released today a landmark decision in the case of Khaled Nezzar, an Algerian former defence minister denounced by TRIAL for war crimes. The FCC found that Mr. Nezzar cannot claim immunity for acts committed during his tenure, thus paving the way for a trial in Switzerland. The present decision opens up signifi...
BiH: action for women victims of war crimes urgent
29.07.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
News release
Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 July 2013
TRIAL welcomes the concluding observations published by the UN today calling on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to respect without delay the rights of women victims of war crimes, relatives of missing persons and victims of sexual violence during the war. In its concluding observations, the UN Committee on the El...
Enforced disappearances: Algeria condemned for the seventh time at the UN
02.07.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL just won a seventh case against Algeria before the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning Mr. Djaafar Sahbi's enforced disappearance in 1995.. The NGO welcomes the Committee's decision and hopes that light will be shed on the serious human rights violations that took place during the Algerian internal conflict and that impunity will no longer protect t...
Libya called to order by the UN: Crimes of the past must be investigated
27.06.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Joint press release of TRIAL and Alkarama
Geneva, 27 June 2012
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has recently condemned Libya following the disappearance in 2006 and 2007 of two brothers defended by TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) and Alkarama. The new Libyan authorities are now required to investigate these facts, to punish the perpetrators o...
BiH: landmark step against enforced disappearances
18.06.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
For the first time ever, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been condemned by an international human rights body concerning enforced disappearances committed during the war. The United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) found several violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (ICCPR) in regards to 5 Bosnian citizens from the Vogošća muni...
BiH: Constitutional Court delivers landmark judgment
28.05.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Geneva / Sarajevo, 28 May 2013 - The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CCBH) recently adopted two landmark decisions[1] concerning the applications submitted by families of 71 persons went missing during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The majority of them were supported by TRIAL and its partner organization Izvor.
As in other similar cases, the Co...
Time for universal rejection of torture!
07.05.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Committee against Torture, the guardian of one of the most widely accepted international human rights conventions. In a campaign for universal ratification of the Convention against Torture, several leading human rights organisations now call on the remaining 42 countries to join the treaty and recognize the full competence o...
Justice for victims of torture and enforced disappearances in Kenya
06.05.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
On 15 and 16 May 2013 the UN Committee against Torture will examine Kenya’s human rights record with regard to torture. In light of this, TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) submitted an alternative report to the Committee against Torture highlighting the main shortcomings in the implementation by Kenya of the Convention against Torture and expressing concerns...