News releases

On behalf of the Swiss Coalition for the International Criminal Court (SCICC), TRIAL transmitted today to the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) its position on the ratification and implementation of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the ICC In June 2010, the Kampala review conference approved two amendments to the Rome Statute of the ICC. The...

Sarajevo/Geneva, 14 October 2011 TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, seven associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence during the war and four associations dealing with former concentration-camp detainees submit a follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT). In...

TRIAL welcomes the landmark declaration to end sexual violence in conflict endorsed yesterday by 113 states on the margins of the UN General Assembly The Declaration recognizes that rape and other forms of sexual violence in conflict represent grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. It stresses that sexual violence must be excluded from amnesty provisions and tha...

Spain must do much more to implement its international obligations concerning enforced disappearance, says TRIAL in its report to the United Nations (UN). TRIAL is submitting a report to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances(CED) on the measures to be taken by Spain to implement its international obligations. The NGO points out that Spanish legislation doe...

TRIAL submits its views to the Swiss Government (the Federal Council) relating the project of a new federal law on the freezing and restitution of assets of illicit origin linked to politically exposed persons (LBVR). Considering its limited mandate, namely the fight against impunity in cases of crimes under international law (genocide, crimes against humanity, war...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...