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The Bralima trial in the DRC: three militiamen convicted for crimes against humanity.

22.03.2023 - (Last modified: 23.03.2023)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

On March 1, 2023, three militiamen from the Raia Mutomboki Bralima armed group were convicted by the Military Tribunal o...

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Buying Out War Crimes Prison Sentences – Socially Unacceptable and Immoral

10.03.2023 - (Last modified: 15.03.2023)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

In the last five years, eight individuals sentenced to one-year imprisonment for war crimes replaced their sentences wit...

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Burundi: The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights calls for mechanisms to co...

07.03.2023 - (Last modified: 10.03.2023)

Burundi

On the 12th anniversary of the first assassination attempt on the late Audace Vianney Habonarugira, who was killed in a...

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Rifaat Al-Assad case: 9 years of hope and uncertainties

13.12.2022 - (Last modified: 19.12.2022)

Syria

On the 13th of December 2013, alerted of his presence in Switzerland, TRIAL International filed a criminal denunciation...

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[🔈PODCAST] Fighting wartime sexual violence: lessons from Bosnia and DRC

16.11.2022 - (Last modified: 13.01.2023)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and during so many other conflicts, sexual violence...

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11 years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoi...

20.10.2022 - (Last modified: 17.11.2022)

Algeria

11 years after his arrest in Geneva, the procedure against Khaled Nezzar is still ongoing in Switzerland. TRIAL Internat...

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Burundi : Extend the Special Rapporteur’s mandate

18.08.2022

Burundi

In partnership with over 50 NGOs, TRIAL International co-signed a letter to the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, asking for the renewal of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate. [caption id="attachment_24412" align="alignnone" width="2560"] A general view of participants during the 29th Regular Session of...

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[VIDEO] Ukraine: legal avenues for survivors of sexual violence related to the war

15.08.2022 - (Last modified: 30.11.2022)

Global

[ VIDEO] Why do sexual violence cases related to the war in Ukraine go underreported? What legal avenues and models of support can help survivors obtain justice? In this video, we try to bring some answers.

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[ VIDEO] War crime of pillage: no more impunity for economic actors

11.08.2022 - (Last modified: 30.11.2022)

The Gambia

Swiss authorities are willing to prosecute Swiss economic actors for war crime of pillage, according to an op-ed by Attorney General Stefan Blättler in the newspaper Le Temps, published on July 13th, 2022. Our director Philip Grant explains why this announcement is groundbreaking

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