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Eighteen months after Erwin Sperisen received a life sentence for the murder of ten prisoners, his hierarchic superior i...
Carlos Vielmann & Erwin Sperisen lors de la reprise de Pavon

Nepal: Child tortured by policemen receives compensation

09.01.2017 - (Last modified: 28.03.2018)
For the first time in Nepal, torturers have been ordered to pay compensation to their victim. Unfortunately, they also...
Lapka Tamang, victim of torture in Nepal

Impunity and sustainable peace are irreconcilable

06.01.2017 - (Last modified: 10.01.2017)
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The fight against impunity is at the heart of TRIAL International’s mission. But what does it really mean? What are its...
For the second year in a row, 8 Congolese lawyers underwent personalised legal training for a year. From theoretical cl...
Two congolese lawyers testify
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An op-ed by Valérie Paulet The relevance of universal jurisdiction for torture or genocide has been widely acknowledged...

Nepal: Anti-Torture Draft Bill raises concerns for victims

15.12.2016 - (Last modified: 26.01.2017)
The government’s proposal to criminalize torture is riddled with loopholes, as illustrated in the fictitious case of hum...

Can justice finally prevail? This victim thinks so.

12.12.2016 - (Last modified: 28.03.2017)
K. (real name withheld) was underage when soldiers of the Republika Srpska Army repeatedly raped her in 1992. Now a woma...
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An op-ed by Giorgio Malinverni We celebrate the International Day for Human Rights at the close of a rough year for int...
An op-ed by Adisa Fisic On the 68th anniversary of the Convention against Genocide, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still str...

TRIAL needs you to move justice forward!

05.12.2016 - (Last modified: 06.12.2016)
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Did you know that over 20 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)? This everyday tragedy...
An op-ed by Sandra Delval The District Court of Bobigny (France) upheld a guilty verdict against Pascal Simbikangwa for...
Widely condemned by the international community – and rightly so – Burundi’s withdrawal from the International Criminal...
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