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Another victory against impunity for wartime sexual violence

12.10.2018 - (Last modified: 20.12.2018)
Former Bosnian Serb policeman Dragan Janjić was found guilty of rape and sentenced to 7 years in prison for Crimes again...
In partnership with the Philip Kirsch Institute and the Canadian Centre for International Justice. Joseph Rikhof is...
On Friday 21 September, a military tribunal in Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) condemned two high-ranking comm...
On 23 August 2018, the South Kivu military tribunal opened a trial in the town of Kalehe against two leaders of the Dem...

“They were raping our girls”

04.07.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Rémy Cingo is a father from Kavumu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When a militia started raping girls and bab...
Remy Cingo Kavumu
Fourteen NGOs, including TRIAL International, have denounced Ali Mamluk’s official visit to Rome in February 2018. The f...
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) has overturned a decision of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to dismiss...
Colonel « Marocain » was found guilty of sexual slavery, rape, looting and attack against civilians in DRC. An additiona...
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Dictator Obiang Cannot “Protect” Yahya Jammeh From Justice

29.01.2018 - (Last modified: 02.02.2018)
Equatorial Guinea Legally Bound to “Prosecute or Extradite” Exiled Gambian Dictator   (Banjul, The Gambia, Janu...

Ntumwa "Marocain" Maro, a warlord in the dock

25.01.2018 - (Last modified: 18.07.2018)
Ntumwa Maro, a warlord in the dock Marocain is suspected of being one of the highest-ranking leaders of a group that ki...
Despite threats and intimidations on behalf of those whom they disturb, the Congolese actors stood firm. Attorney Charl...

With your help, justice becomes possible

14.12.2017 - (Last modified: 16.02.2018)
A letter from Elsa Taquet When our forces unite to denounce and fight against atrocities, justice becomes possible. The Kavumu case, which I got the chance to participate in, is the best illustration that when national and international actors combine their efforts to obtain justice, it makes it possible to fight against systematic impunity, such as in  this landmark...