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Pillage: Swiss businessman under criminal investigation for war crimes in the DRC

12.12.2019 - (Last modified: 17.09.2024)
Globe Global
TRIAL International and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) welcome the opening of a formal criminal investigatio...
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Swiss Federal Court upholds Erwin Sperisen's conviction

29.11.2019
Globe Switzerland
On 28 November 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSC) upheld Erwin Sperisen's sentence to 15 years in prison. In Ap...
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Nepal: 13 years on, no justice for conflict victims

26.11.2019
Globe Nepal
Nepal has made no real progress on questions of justice, truth and reparations for victims of gross human rights violati...
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Shining verdict in the Kokodikoko case (DRC)

19.11.2019 - (Last modified: 05.06.2024)
Globe Democratic Republic of the Congo
Three former militiamen, including the infamous warlord Kokodikoko, have been condemned for crimes against humanity. The...
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Criminal complaint filed against Deputy Ambassador of Sri Lanka for war crimes

30.10.2019 - (Last modified: 03.10.2019)
Globe Switzerland
Geneva, Bern, 4 August 2011 The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and TRIAL – Swiss Association against Impunity – filed today a criminal complaint with the Federal Attorney General against the former Major General Jagath Dias for war crimes. Although the STP and TRIAL have invited the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) on several occasions to take act...
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Nepal condemned for covering up torture and forced labor of a minor

27.08.2019
Globe Nepal
Impunity did not stop with the end of the civil war in Nepal. In a landmark decision issued on 22 August 2019, the Unite...
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Nepal: Justice stalled for conflict-era crimes

29.07.2019
Globe Nepal
The Government of Nepal has failed to fulfill its commitment to provide justice for the victims of the country’s decade-...
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Gambia: Women accuse ex-President of sexual violence

26.06.2019 - (Last modified: 22.07.2019)
Globe The Gambia
Yahya Jammeh reportedly forced young women to have sex with him. Some of them received a state salary and worked at the...
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Nepal’s grand debt to its victims of sexual violence

19.06.2019 - (Last modified: 29.08.2019)
Globe Nepal
As we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict today, survivors like Purna Maya and...
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German and Belgian prosecutors urged to shed light on exports of dual-use goods to Syria

03.06.2019 - (Last modified: 10.07.2019)
Globe Syria
(Geneva, Berlin, New York, 3 June 2019) Three groups working on accountability for atrocity crimes – the Syrian Archiv...
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Landmark UN decision condemns Nepal for forced labor and sexual violence

21.05.2019 - (Last modified: 23.05.2019)
Globe Nepal
On 20 May 2019, the Human Rights Committee (HRC) issued a landmark decision in the case of Fulmati Nyaya (pseudonym), an...
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German and Belgian authorities react to new findings on chemicals’ exports to Syria

25.03.2019 - (Last modified: 27.03.2019)
Globe Syria
Three groups working on accountability for atrocious crimes in Syria are asking why the European Union’s sanctions regim...
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