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The Kavumu child rape cases: Finally, a trial

02.11.2017 - (Last modified: 09.11.2017)
UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances, the trial will start on 9 November 2017.   Bukavu, Geneva, New-York, 2...

Kavumu case: young girls abducted at night and raped

31.10.2017 - (Last modified: 17.06.2020)
Kavumu is a particularly poor village situated in the province of South Kivu, in Eastern DRC. Not far from the provincia...
Today, Burundi’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will come into effect – a sa...
(Banjul, The Gambia, October 21, 2017) - Victims of the former Gambian government of Yahya Jammeh and Gambian and intern...

Burundi: enforced disappearances “systematic and widespread”

16.10.2017 - (Last modified: 22.02.2019)
TRIAL International and the FOCODE denounce with a common voice the widespread crimes in Burundi to the UN Working Group...
The United Nations Commission of Inquiry reckoned that crimes against humanity had been committed in Burundi since 2015....

DRC: gathering evidence for the gravest crimes

09.10.2017 - (Last modified: 22.06.2018)
Patient Iraguha, Legal Officer at TRIAL International, documents mass crimes in DRC’s most remote areas. A laborious and...

Rifaat Al-Assad case

03.10.2017 - (Last modified: 23.02.2024)
Rifaat Al-Assad is a career military man and a Syrian politician. He is the younger brother of the former president of S...
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council: Renewing the Mandate of the...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) met with TRIAL International dur...
The ICTY may not have brought the desired reconciliation in BiH, but its influence and legacy provides a crucial basis f...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrates its 15 years of existence. But without a strong network of non-governm...