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BiH: NGOs urge authorities to accept UPR recommendations
11.02.2015 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Sarajevo, 11/02/2015 - On behalf of 150 NGOs, TRIAL and its partner MyRight are sharing some key recommendations formulated by the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This relatively new instrument of the United Nations Human Rights Council scrutinizes every country and assesses their human rights track record. In November 2014, BiH received 167 recommenda...
Morocco: NGO and victims of torture intimidated
10.02.2015 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)Nepal: Victims of enforced disappearance get justice before the UN
03.12.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
The United Nations delivered landmark decisions by giving justice to three conflict-era victims in Nepal. The decisions, rendered by one of the most prominent international human rights bodies, send a message of hope to the families of all victims of enforced disappearances and torture in the country. As widespread impunity still prevails in post-conflict Nepal, the G...
TRIAL acts before the Committee on Enforced Disappearances
01.12.2014 - (Last modified: 29.09.2016)
In December 2014, TRIAL and a coalition of eight civil society associations from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) in view of the forthcoming exam of Mexico's official report, which will take place in February 2015 in Geneva. The alternative report provides answers to the qu...
General allegation to the Special Rapport on Violence Against Women
01.11.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)
In November 2014, TRIAL and 13 local associations working with women victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war submitted a follow-up report to the Special Rapporteur to assess the level of implementation of her recommendations. Unfortunately, much remains to be done to fully guarantee access to justice and redress to women who were subjected to...
Four NGOs release new report on the rights of victims of serious crimes in the EU
29.10.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)General Allegation to the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice and Reparations
01.10.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)
In October 2014, TRIAL and three international and local organizations submitted an additional note of allegations to the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-recurrence and to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to update them on alarming developments, including the flight of a war criminal, related to the au...
Enforced disappearances: BiH authorities must provide compensation to families
24.09.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Supported by TRIAL, several families of missing persons from Vogošća have just obtained justice before the UN. The Human Rights Committee now requests Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to establish the fate and whereabouts of 13 missing persons, to bring to justice those responsible for the crimes, and to provide adequate compensation to the victims. TRIAL welcomes the UN...
Grave and multiple violations of the rights of Ismail Al Khazmi
13.09.2014 - (Last modified: 22.09.2016)BiH: Universal Periodic Review
24.08.2014 - (Last modified: 09.11.2016)Bosnia and Herzegovina: ECHR denies justice to victims of enforced disappearances and a...
22.07.2014 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Twenty-two years ago, 13 men were victims of enforced disappearances during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between 2008 and 2011, their relatives, with the help of TRIAL, submitted their cases to the European Court of Human Rights. Their fate and whereabouts remain unknown, although a few bones of four of them have been located and identified. Most of the perpetra...
Burundi: NGOs submit first extrajudicial killings complaints to African Commission
17.06.2014 - (Last modified: 11.04.2018)
Civil society seeks justice for the first time before the African Commission for cases of extrajudicial killings that remained unpunished before the national judicial authorities. NGOs have submitted four complaints to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. These include several cases of extrajudicial killings committed between 2010 and 2012.
Several...