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The case Arrest, rape and other forms of torture In April 2002 Fulmati Nyaya (pseudonym) was a 14 years old girl, member of an indigenous community living in the southern region of the Terai. She was arbitrarily arrested by members of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) and of the Armed Police Forces (APF) on 2 April 2002 and taken to the army barracks where she was kep...

In December 2010, TRIAL lodged an individual complaint before the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Ms Bariza Zaier, spouse of Rachid Sassene. She acts in the name of her husband, kidnapped on 18 May 1996 in Constantine, and missing ever since. He disappeared during a widespread campaign of forced disappearances in Algeria between 1992 and 1998. Mr...

The case In March 2015 TRIAL submitted a communication to the Human Rights Committee on behalf of Ms. Devi Maya Nepal (pseudonym). Ms. Devi Maya Nepal is a member of the Tharu indigenous community. On 20 August 2002 Ms. Devi Maya Nepal was subjected to rape and other forms of ill-treatment by six members of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) when she was at home with h...

During the month of May 2009, TRIAL submitted an individual communication against Algeria to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Aouali Mounie, Faraoun Feryale and Bouregba Fatiha each acting respectively in their capacity as wife, daughter and mother of Mr. Farid Faraoun. This is now the thirteenth case to be lodged against Algeria by TRIAL....

In February 2016 TRIAL, the Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado democrático de derecho and a coalition of associations of relatives of disappeared persons from Central America submitted a follow-report to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) on the level of implementation of the concluding observations on Mexico issued by the latter in Febr...

In February 2016 TRIAL International, the Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado democrático de derecho and a coalition of associations of relatives of disappeared persons from Central America submitted a follow-up report to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) on the level of implementation of the concluding observations on Mexico issued by t...

In March 2015 TRIAL and 8 associations from Mexico and Central America submitted a follow-up report to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on the level of implementation of the recommendations formulated by the latter in 2011, on the occasion of its visit to Mexico. In January 2016 TRIAL, the Fundación para la Justicia...

Sarajevo, 2 December 2015 – More than 20 experts from the judiciary, international community and civil society organizations met today in Sarajevo to discuss, for the very first time, the burning question of compensation for wartime victims. How should compensation claims be dealt with in criminal proceedings? How could the existing practice be improved? Those were so...

Geneva, 4 November 2015 – Nepal underwent today its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. On the occasion of this second cycle of Nepal’s scrutiny by the UN, no less than 73 Member States took the floor and provided Nepal with recommendations. While most congratulated Nepal on the promulgation of the world’s youngest Con...

Berlin/London/Geneva, 15 September 2015 – Electric shocks, beatings on the soles of the feet, stress positions during incommunicado detention: those who allow this type of torture can and must be held criminally liable – even abroad. Bahrain-born British citizen Jaafar Al-Hasabi has submitted a criminal complaint to the prosecuting authorities in Berne (Switzerland) a...

On 25 January 2011, the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (WG-UPR) reviewed Nepal. As a result, on 8 March 2011, the report of the WG-UPR was published, containing a number of recommendations to Nepal. On 4 November 2015, Nepal will be subjected to a second review. In anticipation thereof, TRIAL submitted this report in March 2015, providing informatio...