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DRC and Thailand: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child follows TRIAL's demands
08.02.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
n November 2011, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its Concluding Observations concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo and Thailand, setting forth a series of recommendations in line with what TRIAL had called for in its alternative reports submitted in April and August 2011.
In April and August 2011, TRIAL had submitted to the Committee two re...
Bih: Human Rights Committee should question human rights situation in the country
15.12.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo / Geneva 15 December 2011
In December 2011 TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, five associations working on the subject of women victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war and four associations or federations of associations of former concentration camp-detainees submitted a...
Alternative reports submitted to the Human Rights Committee
01.12.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In December 2011, TRIAL and 16 associations of relatives of missing persons, of victims of sexual violence and of former concentration camp detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina from all sides, submitted a 51-page report following Bosnia and Herzegovina's own second periodical report before the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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BiH fails to implement UN recommendations on torture
13.10.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo/Geneva, 14 October 2011
TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, seven associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence during the war and four associations dealing with former concentration-camp detainees submit a follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CA...
Alternative reports submitted to the Committee against Torture
01.10.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In October 2011, TRIAL and 19 associations of relatives of missing persons, of victims of sexual violence and of former concentration camps detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted to the United Nations Committee against Torture a 52-page report showing how the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to enforce the November 2010 recommendations of the C...
TRIAL acts before the UN Human Rights Committee
01.07.2011 - (Last modified: 29.09.2016)
In June 2012, TRIAL submitted an alternative alternative report to the UN Human Rights Committee.
In July 2011, TRIAL submitted an alternative alternative report to the UN Human Rights Committee.
The reports describe the human rights situation prevailing in Kenya's Mont Elgon disctrict, notably the massive violations committed there in 2008 and the enduring and...
BiH : Rights of sexual violence victims consistently trampled
11.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo/Geneva, 11 May 2011
Today TRIAL and twelve organizations from BiH dealing with the subject of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war (the Women’s Section of the Association of Concentration Camp Detainees, the Centre for Legal Assistance to Women Zenica, the Association for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims – Centre for Torture Victims, the...
General allegation to the Special Rapport on Violence Against Women
01.05.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In May 2011, TRIAL and 12 local associations from all sides, active in the support of victims of sexual violence during the war, submitted a 62-page document (entitled a "General Allegation" to the United Nations Special Rapport on Violence Against Women, it's Causes and Consequences.
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TRIAL acts before the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances
01.05.2011 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In May 2011, TRIAL submitted a General Allegation to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID).
In May 2011, TRIAL also filed twenty individual communications before the WGEID.
In July 2011, twenty new cases were filed before the WGEID.
In November 2012, twenty new individual cases were filed before the WGEID.
UN blames BiH for not doing enough for civilian victims of war
23.11.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
(Sarajevo/Geneva, 23 November 2010) – The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) issued recommendations to BiH for resolving the problems related to missing persons and victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war. These recommendations were formulated after the organization TRIAL, along with 11 local associations from all of BiH, filed a 80-page-long...