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On 4 November 1998, exactly fourteen years ago, Mr. Hanafi died following acts of torture he suffered while in the hands of the Algerian authorities. Despite the condemnation of Algeria by the UN Committee against Torture in June 2011, those responsible for committing such acts have still not been punished, and the family has not received any compensation. On 16 Ju...

he United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted a list of issues related to the combined 4th and 5th periodic reports on the implementation by Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The CEDAW remains concerned about the situation of women victims of...

On 25 October 2012 TRIAL intervened before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in order to contribute to shedding light on several aspects of the right to liberty and security of persons embodied in Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The meeting, gathering representatives of several civil society organizations and States, took...

On 24 October 2012, within the framework of the recently launched British initiative to prevent sexual violence in armed conflict, TRIAL and other representatives of victims associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina held a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary William Hague. The main violations suffered during the armed conflict and the lack of truth, justice and re...

On 26 September 2012 TRIAL submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committtee regarding the alleged arbitrary killing and the subsequent removal and concealment of the remains of Mrs. Anda Lale and Mrs. Staka Popovic that occurred in August 1992 in the municipality of Trnovo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. During the devastating internal con...

As requested since May 2011 by TRIAL and other 12 local associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence from the 1992-1995 conflict, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, will visit Bosnia-Herzegovina from 28 October to 5 November 2012. She will be able to meet with international organizations and representativ...

Geneva, 11 September 2012 The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently condemned Algeria in a case of enforced disappearance. In May 1996, Mr. Kamel Rakik, 33 years old, was arrested at his home, around 30 km from Algiers, by policemen of Algiers’ wilaya. He was brought to the Chateauneuf Police officers school where he was tortured. He has not been seen sinc...

On 23 August 2012, TRIAL together with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Advocacy Forum – Nepal and seven other local organisations working with victims of human rights violations and their families submitted a briefing note to the new Special Rapporteur on the Promotion o...

Respect Obligations to Prosecute Worst Crimes From Civil War Era (New York, August 31, 2012) – President Ram Baran Yadav of Nepal should return an executive ordinance that would effectively permit amnesty for crimes committed during the country’s civil war from 1996 to 2006, four human rights groups said today in a letter to the president. The president should retu...

Geneva, 27 July 2012 TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) participated in the examination of the third periodic report of Kenya before UN Human Rights Committee. TRIAL expressed concerns at the situation of impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of the gross violations committed in the context of a 2008 security operation in Mt. Elgon. In its concluding observa...

Despite the positive achievement of the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (hereinafter: the Convention), the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have not recognized the crucial competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances to receive and consider individual and inter-state commun...