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Since April 2015, Burundi is the scene of a massive increase in violence. Severe violations of human rights are regularl...
Three former militiamen, including the infamous warlord Kokodikoko, have been condemned for crimes against humanity. The...
In Burundi, opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third mandate was met with repression across the coun...
On 4 September 2019, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (CoI) presented its latest set of conclusions on the situa...

“We still hope that our father will return”

30.08.2019 - (Last modified: 29.08.2019)
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, TRIAL International remembers all the families torn...

Burundi: Human rights violations denounced at the UN

05.07.2019 - (Last modified: 22.07.2019)
Killings, kidnappings, arrests and arbitrary detentions, torture… violations of fundamental rights are commonplace in Bu...
On 20 May 2019, the Human Rights Committee (HRC) issued a landmark decision in the case of Fulmati Nyaya (pseudonym), an...
An oral statement to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on 12 March 2019 denounces the closure of the Office of the...

Building good practices to fight enforced disappearances

04.02.2019 - (Last modified: 22.02.2019)
TRIAL and a partner NGO submitted to the UN a set of learned lessons and recommendations based on their experience in Me...
Five United Nations human rights monitors have urged the UN and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) t...

Is The Gambia ready to confront its past?

21.01.2019 - (Last modified: 20.10.2020)
On 7 January 2019, the Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) held its first session in the Gambian ca...

NGOs denounce Spain for drawing a veil over Franco-era crimes

14.01.2019 - (Last modified: 17.03.2021)
Today, human rights organizations TRIAL International and Women’s Link Worldwide bring the first case relating to the Fr...
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