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BiH should allow individuals to petition the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
12.06.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Despite the positive achievement of the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (hereinafter: the Convention), the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have not recognized the crucial competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances to receive and consider individual and inter-state commun...
Free but not yet freed: camp detainees in BiH still in the shackles of the State
28.05.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Sarajevo / Geneva, 28 May 2012
TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) presented today a report on the situation of former camp detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Drafted in cooperation wi...
BiH: TRIAL publishes legal guide for victims of sexual violence
05.04.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva / Sarajevo, 5 April 2012
Under the title BETWEEN STIGMA AND OBLIVION, A Guide on Defending the Rights of Women Victims of Rape or other Forms of Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, TRIAL has just published, in cooperation with UN Women a legal Guide for victims of sexual violence committed during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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TRIAL and ICTY public event against sexual violence in conflict
04.04.2012 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
ICTY PRESS RELEASE
Sarajevo, 4 April 2012
A public debate on wartime sexual violence and accountability was held today in Sarajevo during which the Tribunal’s Outreach Programme premiered its documentary "Sexual Violence and the Triumph of Justice". The event was attended by some 80 guests, amongst whom were victims, Bosnian government officials, membe...
BiH: TRIAL and 9 other NGOs denounce stalemate in forced labor camps cases
01.04.2012 - (Last modified: 20.10.2016)
In April 2012, TRIAL and 9 local associations working with former camp detainees from all sides, submitted a report (called 'general allegation' in the UN jargon) to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in order to highlight the remaining obstacles preventing Bosn...
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...
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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BiH, Nepal: TRIAL submits two new cases to the Human Rights Committee
04.02.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
TRIAL has recently submitted two individual communications to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding the enforced disappearance and torture of Jit Man Basnet in Nepal in February 2004 and regarding the arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and execution of Ermin Kadiric in Bosnia-Herzegovina July 1992.
Jit Man Basnet is a journalist and a lawyer in Kathmandu...