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The Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted two days ago in urgent procedure important amendments to the Criminal Code. By recalibrating the crimes of torture, enforced disappearance and rape, the amended Criminal Code will help tackle widespread impunity, break the law of silence and provide justice and recognition to thousands of victims all across...
In November 2014, TRIAL and 13 local associations working with women victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war submitted a follow-up report to the Special Rapporteur to assess the level of implementation of her recommendations. Unfortunately, much remains to be done to fully guarantee access to justice and redress to women who were subjected to...

Torture: BiH is not implementing UN recommendations

13.10.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
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 (CAT). In...

Nepal should end impunity for rape perpetrators

12.08.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
TRIAL and its Nepalese partner HimRights denounce the ongoing impunity for perpetrators of acts of sexual violence committed in Nepal during the conflict (1996-2006) and post-conflict periods in a report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW or the Committee). The NGO's deplores that not a single case of rape or sex...

Nepal: Alternative Reports to CEDAW

01.08.2013 - (Last modified: 08.11.2016)
On 29 July 2011 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted its concluding observations with regard to Nepal's combined fourth and fifth periodic reports, requesting the government to provide within two years, written information on the steps undertaken to implement the recommendations contained therein. In light of this request, TRI...

BiH: action for women victims of war crimes urgent

29.07.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
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...

Courageous struggle of rape survivor rewarded at last

30.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
Survivor of rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina relieved as Doboj court today hands out a three-year prison verdict against perpetrator. Despite being a light sentence with no compensation for the victim, TRIAL nevertheless hails this ruling as a major step against impunity of perpetrators of sexual violence during the Bosnian war. The Doboj municipality...

Impunity in Nepal: alternative report to Human Rights Committee

26.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee will review Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a core human rights treaty it has been a party to since 1991. As Nepal submitted its state party report almost 14 years later, this will be the first time the Human Rights Committee has the opportunity to scru...

G8 commitment to tackle impunity for rape in conflict welcome

12.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
London/Geneva, 12 April 2013 – A Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict was agreed yesterday by the G8 countries, declaring that rape and other serious sexual violence amount to war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions constitutes an emphatic reminder that states are required to investigate and prosecute conflict-related sexual violence w...
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...
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...
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