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Enforced disappearance and torture due to political activism

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In April 2015 in Burundi, many people took to the streets to demonstrate against the renewal of President Pierre Nkurun...

Oral statement on Burundi before the Human Rights Council

18.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Together with NGOs FIACAT, CCPR Center, DefendDefenders, OMCT and Protection International, TRIAL International has spon...

Is Switzerland becoming a safe haven for war criminals?

18.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
A UN report recently made public points the finger at Switzerland. In two criminal cases for war crimes, the Office of t...

ICC withdrawal: Kinshasa issues alarming statement

17.09.2018 - (Last modified: 26.09.2018)
In a media release on 15 September 2018, the Congolese government stated it “did not exclude” withdrawing from the juris...
On 5 September 2018, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi (CoI) released its second - and possibly final - set of co...

Guatemala: the justice system at risk

07.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
On August 31, President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity...
Prison
Kamala Katwal was only 12 years old when her father was taken by the authorities – never to be seen again. As the eldest...
Sent to detention camps during the war, Ema and her husband were forcibly separated. 25 years later, she still hopes to...
How to mourn lost loved ones without their remains or date of death? For many families, the International Day of the Vic...
On 23 August 2018, the South Kivu military tribunal opened a trial in the town of Kalehe against two leaders of the Dem...

Testimonies: when international bodies finally deliver justice

15.08.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Aimable and Emery both suffered a sadly similar fate: victims of torture by Burundian authorities in 2006 and 2007, they...
Burundi refugees

Dare to dream: how NGOs inspire the fight against impunity

09.08.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
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Thomas Unger joined the Board of TRIAL International in May 2018. A lecturer at the Geneva Academy, he has over 15 year...
Thomas Unger
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