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Burundi: a “standardised crisis”?

24.01.2017 - (Last modified: 25.01.2017)
An op-ed by Pamela Capizzi The country showed no sign of improvement in 2016, perpetuating a detrimental situation for...

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...
TRIAL International and six NGOs denounce the ordeal of thousands of relatives of disappeared persons in Mexico in their...

Victory before the UN for wife of disappeared militant

10.11.2016 - (Last modified: 17.11.2016)
Mr. Nepali was a journalist at a Maoist daily newspaper during the civil war that opposed Nepali security forces with t...

«Too many victims are unaware of their rights»

31.10.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
Tej Bahadur Bhandari was forcibly disappeared in 2001. His son, Ram Bhandari, has never given up on justice and is now...

Morocco: the fight against impunity requires more than promises

29.09.2016 - (Last modified: 23.02.2017)
A recent decision of the Committee against Torture confirmed that States must do much better than vague promises to uph...

CAT Special Examination of Burundi

12.08.2016 - (Last modified: 27.09.2016)
Burundi must put an end to ethnic violence and the use of force against protesters, and report in October on its fight a...

Burundi’s missed opportunity risks closing off dialogue

08.08.2016 - (Last modified: 27.09.2016)
An op-ed by Pamela Capizzi Burundi deserted its examination before the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) m...
Geneva, 26 July 2016 – A coalition of Burundian NGOs[1], with the support of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMC...

Tunisia: Victory at the UN for a torture victim

14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 10.11.2016)
Last month, the United Nations Committee Against Torture condemned Tunisia for the torture of Canadian-Tunisian national...

UN highlights poor child protection in armed conflict

14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 03.11.2016)
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child found severe shortcomings in child protection in Nepal. Former c...

A pilot project to facilitate access to justice

14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
An EU project, carried out in collaboration with the UNDP, will allow TRIAL International to extend its efforts in the f...
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