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Human rights under threat in Switzerland?

31.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
An initiative proposes that the Swiss Constitution should prevail over international law. A scenario with potentially di...

Kavumu trial: High Military Court confirms all condemnations

26.07.2018 - (Last modified: 18.11.2019)
Tonight, the High Military Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (HMC) has confirmed the condemnation of all 11...

Sarita Sharma: a family torn by war

24.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In April 2018, the United Nations recognized the arbitrary detention of Nepali citizen Sarita Sharma. Helena Rodríguez-...
Victims arbitrary detention Nepal
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS AND TRIAL INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 20 July 2018  ...

“Resistance vis-à-vis transitional justice is normal”

19.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Globe Global
Dr. Briony Jones is an Associate Professor in International Development at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom),...

Civil society is the cornerstone of international justice

16.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Globe Global
An op-ed by Philip Grant Today marks 20 years since the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was adop...

“Hama 82 belongs to a long story of injustice”

12.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
On 2 February 1982, Syrian government forces, including the Defense Brigades, attacked the city of Hama to crush opponen...
Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa spent 2 years in prison in Burundi because of his political views. He experienced torture, humili...
Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa

“I ask for the word ‘victim’ not to be used”

05.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
“The victims did not survive, they are underground. I ask for that word not to be used: it makes me feel like I am not a...
Victim sexual violence BiH

“They were raping our girls”

04.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Rémy Cingo is a father from Kavumu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When a militia started raping girls and bab...
Remy Cingo Kavumu

Liberia asked to bring its former warlords to justice

02.07.2018 - (Last modified: 05.07.2018)
A coalition of 76 non-governmental organizations has called for the Human Rights Committee to ask the Liberian governmen...

“You are the victim now, and I am the victor”

29.06.2018 - (Last modified: 20.12.2018)
Semka Agic was repeatedly raped during the war in the former Yugoslavia. She tells of her decade-long quest for justice,...
BiH victim conflict-related sexual violence
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