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«Too many victims are unaware of their rights»

31.10.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
Tej Bahadur Bhandari was forcibly disappeared in 2001. His son, Ram Bhandari, has never given up on justice and is now...
Thus far, victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) received no State legal aid to seek compensation in criminal proceedin...
Stella was thirteen years old when she was raped by a judge. She is now defended by a Congolese lawyer trained by TRIAL...

Echoes from the field

03.10.2016 - (Last modified: 20.06.2017)
An interview with Guy Mushiata, Human Rights expert in the DRC   TRIAL: Once again, the DRC is making the internatio...

Morocco: the fight against impunity requires more than promises

29.09.2016 - (Last modified: 23.02.2017)
A recent decision of the Committee against Torture confirmed that States must do much better than vague promises to uph...

BIH: experts demand better identity protection

13.09.2016 - (Last modified: 06.10.2016)
Imagine having to renounce your own security to claim what is rightfully yours. This is the fate of numerous of victims...

Universal jurisdiction case dismissed against Kumar Lama

07.09.2016 - (Last modified: 03.11.2016)
Nepalese colonel Kumar Lama has been acquitted of the charges of torture he faced in the United Kingdom. On 6 Septemb...

DRC: Developments in the Mutarule trial

07.09.2016 - (Last modified: 21.10.2019)
  The trial for the massacre of Mutarule opened on 12 August 2016 and has been the theatre of tensions, resulting in del...

CAT Special Examination of Burundi

12.08.2016 - (Last modified: 27.09.2016)
Burundi must put an end to ethnic violence and the use of force against protesters, and report in October on its fight a...

Congolese soldier receives 15 years sentence for double rape

04.08.2016 - (Last modified: 23.02.2017)
A military tribunal in Bukavu sentenced private Bolingo Katusi to 15 years imprisonment for the rape of two women in th...

Srebrenica denial ruled intolerable

06.07.2016 - (Last modified: 13.07.2016)
For the first time, Switzerland condemned a former far-right politician for denying that the Srebrenica genocide had t...

Tunisia: Victory at the UN for a torture victim

14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 10.11.2016)
Last month, the United Nations Committee Against Torture condemned Tunisia for the torture of Canadian-Tunisian national...
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