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Call for tender: Consultancy services to produce the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Revi...
09.07.2025
Project: “Global Initiative Against Impunity for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations: Making Justice Work”, co-financed by the European Union
In support of its activities, TRIAL International is looking for a consultant to coordinate, research and draft the 2026 edition of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR). Since 2015, in...
Human Rights, Legal Organizations Warn Privatized “Humanitarian” Operators in Gaza of t...
23.06.2025Universal jurisdiction law and practice in Argentina
24.04.2025 - (Last modified: 06.05.2025)Fall of the Syrian regime: the closure of the Rifaat al-Assad case in Switzerland would...
16.12.2024 - (Last modified: 30.01.2025)German court upholds conviction of Gambian national for crimes against humanity
29.11.2024 - (Last modified: 03.12.2024)Alleged Gambian death squad member to stand trial for torture and conspiracy to commit ...
26.08.2024Sonko case: How a Swiss court failed survivors of sexual violence in The Gambia, and wo...
17.06.2024 - (Last modified: 14.06.2024)Making justice work: Civil society unites in the global fight against impunity
04.06.2024 - (Last modified: 18.06.2024)Sonko case: a historic conviction, yet a missed opportunity to recognize sexual violenc...
24.05.2024 - (Last modified: 05.06.2024)
The conviction of former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko in Switzerland for crimes against humanity on 15 May 2024 is historical in many ways. However, the decision by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court’s (FCC) to dismiss all charges of sexual violence casts a shadow over this landmark verdict. Ousman Sonko was found guilty of three murders, multiple acts of tort...