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Geneva / Sarajevo, 28 May 2013 - The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CCBH) recently adopted two landmark decisions[1] concerning the applications submitted by families of 71 persons went missing during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The majority of them were supported by TRIAL and its partner organization Izvor. As in other similar cases, the Co...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Committee against Torture, the guardian of one of the most widely accepted international human rights conventions. In a campaign for universal ratification of the Convention against Torture, several leading human rights organisations now call on the remaining 42 countries to join the treaty and recognize the full competence o...

On 15 and 16 May 2013 the UN Committee against Torture will examine Kenya’s human rights record with regard to torture. In light of this, TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) submitted an alternative report to the Committee against Torture highlighting the main shortcomings in the implementation by Kenya of the Convention against Torture and expressing concerns...

Survivor of rape during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina relieved as Doboj court today hands out a three-year prison verdict against perpetrator. Despite being a light sentence with no compensation for the victim, TRIAL nevertheless hails this ruling as a major step against impunity of perpetrators of sexual violence during the Bosnian war. The Doboj municipality...

In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee will review Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a core human rights treaty it has been a party to since 1991. As Nepal submitted its state party report almost 14 years later, this will be the first time the Human Rights Committee has the opportunity to scru...

TRIAL today submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, alleging the unlawful detention, enforced disappearance and torture of Himal Sharma from 2003 to 2005 by state security forces, during the height of the armed conflict in Nepal. Disappeared and tortured On 21 October 2003, Himal Sharma was unlawfully arrested in Kathmandu by members of state sec...

London/Geneva, 12 April 2013 – A Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict was agreed yesterday by the G8 countries, declaring that rape and other serious sexual violence amount to war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions constitutes an emphatic reminder that states are required to investigate and prosecute conflict-related sexual violence w...

In a case soon to be decided by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, TRIAL represents the families of thirteen residents of Prijedor municipality who were forcibly disappeared in 1992 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Early 1992, during the first months of the war ravaging the former Yugoslavia: thirteen men are abducted from their famili...

On behalf of the Swiss Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CSCPI), TRIAL handed over a document setting out its position on the ratification and national implementation of the Convention against Enforced Disappearances to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). After many calls, including the launch of a public petition signed by over 900...

TRIAL, in collaboration with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT), ACAT-France and the Collective of Families of Disappeared Persons in Algeria (CFDA) submitted an alternative report on the implementation by France of the International Convention for the Protection of...

The case In July 2008, a joint individual communication against Libya was lodged by TRIAL and the organization Al-Karama for Human Rights before the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Khaled Il Khwildy, acting for his brother, Abdussalam Il Khwildy. Mr Il Khwildy was arrested and detained arbitrarily in April 1998, toghether with his father and thr...

Alkarama, the Collective of families of disappeared persons in Algeria (CFDA) and TRIAL keep up their efforts for victims of grave human rights violations in Algeria.   The United Nations Human Rights Committee will meet on Monday, March 25, 2013 in order to monitor the implementation of its decisions in cases of human rights violations. In preparation for...