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BiH: landmark case defended by TRIAL soon to be judged by ECHD
09.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
In a case soon to be decided by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, TRIAL represents the families of thirteen residents of Prijedor municipality who were forcibly disappeared in 1992 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
Early 1992, during the first months of the war ravaging the former Yugoslavia: thirteen men are abducted from their famili...
BiH: amicus brief to the ECHR in case lodged by TRIAL
22.01.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
On 18 January 2013, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and The REDRESS Trust (REDRESS) submitted an amicus curiae brief to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Mujkanović et al. v. Bosnia Herzegovina lodged by TRIAL.
The case concerns 11 applications submitted by TRIAL to the Court between September 2008 and December 2010 regarding the disap...
TRIAL contributes to experts’ seminars on sexual violence in Kosovo
04.01.2013 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
TRIAL participated in two experts’ seminars on sexual violence in armed conflict in Priština and Gjakova on 5 and 6 December 2012 organized by the UN Women Project Office in Kosovo.
The purpose of the seminars was to take stock of the situation of sexual violence in Kosovo and to share experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with the aim of inspiring...
BiH: UK Experts Team against Sexual Violence in Mission
25.11.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
A conference was held in Wilton Park, Sussex from 12 to 14 November 2012 under the organization of the United Kingdom (UK) Foreign and Commonwealth Office in order to lay the groundwork, shape and develop the activities of the newly established UK initiative to fight against rape and sexual violence in conflict.
The conference hosted around 60 participants coming f...
BiH: “Time continues to pass by with no justice being served”
14.11.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Between 28 October and 5 November 2012 Ms. Rashida Manjoo, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, conducted for the first time in the history of the mandate an official country mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
The visit was prompted by a general allegation submitted in May 2011 by TRIAL (Swiss Association...
BiH: 20 years after the war, impunity prevails
06.11.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
The Human Rights Committee (HRC) adopted its concluding observations on the second periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Despite some progresses, numerous remain the measures to be undertaken, in particular with regard to relatives of missing persons, former camp-detainees and...
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina doing for women victims of sexual violence during the war?
02.11.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
he United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted a list of issues related to the combined 4th and 5th periodic reports on the implementation by Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The CEDAW remains concerned about the situation of women victims of...
TRIAL meets with the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in Sarajevo
26.10.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
On 24 October 2012, within the framework of the recently launched British initiative to prevent sexual violence in armed conflict, TRIAL and other representatives of victims associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina held a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary William Hague. The main violations suffered during the armed conflict and the lack of truth, justice and re...
BiH: Shed light on those killings!
01.10.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
On 26 September 2012 TRIAL submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committtee regarding the alleged arbitrary killing and the subsequent removal and concealment of the remains of Mrs. Anda Lale and Mrs. Staka Popovic that occurred in August 1992 in the municipality of Trnovo in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
During the devastating internal con...
BiH: time for victims of war-time sexual violence to be heard
28.09.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
As requested since May 2011 by TRIAL and other 12 local associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence from the 1992-1995 conflict, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, will visit Bosnia-Herzegovina from 28 October to 5 November 2012. She will be able to meet with international organizations and representativ...
BiH: Women are the war's silent victims
01.09.2012 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In September 2012, TRIAL and 9 associations working with women victims of the war submitted a 72-page report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women highlighting Bosnia-Herzevogina's failure to enforce this category of victims' right to obtain truth, justice and reparation.
BiH: sexual violence, camp detention... TRIAL reports to Human Rights Committee
01.09.2012 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In September 2012, TRIAL, together with six associations of relatives of missing persons, four associations dealing with the subject of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war, and seven associations or federations of associations of former camp-detainees, submitted a report highlighting the violations of the fundamental rights suffered by the above-ment...