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In June 2014, TRIAL, together with Advocacy Forum - Nepal and REDRESS, submitted a report providing an analysis of the conformity with international standards of the provisions of the recently enacted Act on the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation 2071 (11 May 2014) to several UN Special Procedures. TRIAL requested the Speci...

On 3 January 2007 Nepal ratified the  Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC). On 15 October 2012 Nepal presented to the Committee on the Rights of the Child its Initial Report (CRC/C/OPAC/NPL/1) pursuant to Article 8, para. 1, of the OPAC. On 26 June 2014 TRIAL submitted an alternative...

In May 2014 TRIAL and 8 associations from Mexico and Central America submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED). It concerns the implementation by Mexico of its obligations under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Mexico is a party to this treaty since 18 March 2008 and i...

In April 2013, TRIAL submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture. The report analyses the state of implementation of the Convention against Torture by Kenyan authorities and it focuses in particular on the human rights situation prevailing in Kenya's Mont Elgon disctrict, notably the massive violations committed there in 2008 and the endurin...

In March 2014, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) reviewed Nepal’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In this perspective, TRIAL and its partners submitted an “alternative report” to the HRC to assist a Country Task Force on Nepal ahead of its adoption of a List of Issues concerning Nepal in July 2013 at...

In February 2014, TRIAL and other 3 associations submitted a report (called 'general allegation' in the UN jargon) to the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence in order to prompt him to contact the Bosnian government on justice and accountability issues after the release and retrial of more than a dozen convicted war crimin...

In February 2014, TRIAL and a coalition of five Bosnian associations of relatives of disappeared persons submitted a follow-up report to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to assess the status of implementation of the recommendations issued after the country visit and to highlight the remaining obstacles faced by relatives of disappeared perso...

According to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, 170 migrants have been killed in the country since 2005, including the massive murder of 72 migrants in August 2013 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas. There seems to be a link between the murder of migrants, organized crime and the complicity of the police and other authorities. Migrant shelters have been the object...

Sarajevo/Geneva, 14 October 2011 TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity), seven associations of relatives of missing persons, seven associations dealing with women victims of sexual violence during the war and four associations dealing with former concentration-camp detainees submit a follow-up report to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT). In...

TRIAL and its Nepalese partner HimRights denounce the ongoing impunity for perpetrators of acts of sexual violence committed in Nepal during the conflict (1996-2006) and post-conflict periods in a report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW or the Committee). The NGO's deplores that not a single case of rape or sex...

On 29 July 2011 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted its concluding observations with regard to Nepal's combined fourth and fifth periodic reports, requesting the government to provide within two years, written information on the steps undertaken to implement the recommendations contained therein. In light of this request, TRI...

News release Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 July 2013   TRIAL welcomes the concluding observations published by the UN today calling on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to respect without delay the rights of women victims of war crimes, relatives of missing persons and victims of sexual violence during the war. In its concluding observations, the UN Committee on the El...