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Libya must investigate enforced disappearance of two opposition leaders
08.11.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
On the eve of the United Nations Human Rights Council review of Libya’s human rights record, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) submitted today two new cases of enforced disappearances against Libya to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The organization calls upon the Human Rights Council to put accountability of human rights offenders on the table.
The cases of I...
Nepal: TRIAL Submits a First Case to the Human Rights Committee
27.10.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
On 27 October 2010, TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) has submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the enforced disappearance of Chakra Bahadur Katwal in 2001.
On 9 December 2001, Mr. Katwal received a letter at his school asking him to go to the district’s education office in the Okhaldhunga village in o...
TRIAL concerned for families of forcefully disappeared
08.09.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo/Geneva, 8 September 2010
In November 2006 the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) adopted its concluding observations concerning the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the status of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Among other subjects, the Committee expressed its concern for the fact that the fate and w...
Allegations of extrajudicial executions against the former Guatemalan police chief
01.09.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)BiH: families of the disappeared "exhausted by the local authorities' lack of cooperation"
08.07.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 6 July 2010
During the month of June, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always-a Swiss Association against Impunity) submitted to the European Court of Human rights two individual complaints against Bosnia-Herzegovina concerning the enforced disappearances of Esad Aliskovic and Enes Ramulic following an action carried out by Serb forces. These two cases become the 13th...
The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances visits Bosnia and Herzegovina... and so...
22.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearancesundertook a country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina form 14 to 21 June 2010 and met with the government, national and local authorities, international institutions, as well as with human rights NGOs and associations of families of victims.
TRIAL, whose June 2009 general allegation prompted t...
New law on international crimes must not remain dead letter
15.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Restitution of illegally obtained property should not remain the prerogative of governm...
09.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Tortured and forcibly disappeared in Libya, TRIAL takes his case to the UN
31.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Switzerland must continue promoting the goals of the ICC
25.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)BiH: twelve cases of enforced disappearance before the UN
12.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva / Sarajevo, 12 May 2010
TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed a communication before the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning 12 cases of enforced disappearances carried out in Vogošća by Serb forces in June 1992. The NGO is acting on behalf of 25 relatives of the disappeared persons.
On 4 May 1992,...
BiH: Inaction of local authorities leads TRIAL to petitions the ECHR
30.04.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 April 2010
TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – the Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed three applications before the European Court of Human Rights against Bosnia-Herzegovina regarding the massacre of the Bačić and Horozović families, and the forced disappearance of Refik Bačić, perpetrated by Serb forces in 1992.
In July 1992, as...