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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...
Last Friday, a former Bosnian-Serb policeman, Darko Mrđa, was sentenced to 15 years in prisonby the Court (of BiH) for c...
Each year, thousands of migrants from Central America disappear in Mexico, adding to the already staggering number of di...

Pascal: Found executed a few days after his arrest

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In the summer of 2015, Pascal (real name withheld) received numerous alarming calls informing him that he was actively...

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...
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...