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The French police have arrested Bosnian Serb citizen Radomir Šušnjar, a former member of a paramilitary group in Bosnia, wanted for war crimes. TRIAL led an investigation on this case since 2012, located the suspect and informed the French and Bosnian authorities. The arrest was carried out on April 4 at the request of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s authorities. War crim...

Bosnia has recently released more than a dozen convicted war criminals following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in July 2013. Among these criminals, six took part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In response, three NGOs -TRIAL, the Association Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom...

In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) reviewed Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In this perspective, TRIAL and its partners submitted an “alternative report” to the HRC to assist a Country Task Force on Nepal ahead of its adoption of a List of Issues concerning Nepal in July 2013 at...

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) rendered a decision on the Argor case on January 24, 2014. It reveals that a search was conducted on the premises of the Swiss refining company on November 4, 2013, following the opening of proceedings on alleged aggravated money laundry and complicity in the looting of raw materials. Documentation and computers were seized on th...

In February 2014, TRIAL and other 3 associations submitted a report (called 'general allegation' in the UN jargon) to the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence in order to prompt him to contact the Bosnian government on justice and accountability issues after the release and retrial of more than a dozen convicted war crimin...

News release Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 July 2013   TRIAL welcomes the concluding observations published by the UN today calling on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to respect without delay the rights of women victims of war crimes, relatives of missing persons and victims of sexual violence during the war. In its concluding observations, the UN Committee on the El...

One of the main human rights bodies of the United Nations has just ruled that the transitional justice mechanisms envisaged by the Government of Nepal do not meet international human rights standards, as they do not offer sufficient guarantees to victims of the civil war to realise their rights to justice and truth.     On 12 October 2012 the United...

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...

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...