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Allegations of extrajudicial executions against the former Guatemalan police chief
01.09.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)BiH: families of the disappeared "exhausted by the local authorities' lack of cooperation"
08.07.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 6 July 2010
During the month of June, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always-a Swiss Association against Impunity) submitted to the European Court of Human rights two individual complaints against Bosnia-Herzegovina concerning the enforced disappearances of Esad Aliskovic and Enes Ramulic following an action carried out by Serb forces. These two cases become the 13th...
The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances visits Bosnia and Herzegovina... and so...
22.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearancesundertook a country visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina form 14 to 21 June 2010 and met with the government, national and local authorities, international institutions, as well as with human rights NGOs and associations of families of victims.
TRIAL, whose June 2009 general allegation prompted t...
New law on international crimes must not remain dead letter
15.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Restitution of illegally obtained property should not remain the prerogative of governm...
09.06.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Tortured and forcibly disappeared in Libya, TRIAL takes his case to the UN
31.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)Switzerland must continue promoting the goals of the ICC
25.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)BiH: twelve cases of enforced disappearance before the UN
12.05.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva / Sarajevo, 12 May 2010
TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed a communication before the United Nations Human Rights Committee concerning 12 cases of enforced disappearances carried out in Vogošća by Serb forces in June 1992. The NGO is acting on behalf of 25 relatives of the disappeared persons.
On 4 May 1992,...
BiH: Inaction of local authorities leads TRIAL to petitions the ECHR
30.04.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva/Sarajevo, 30 April 2010
TRIAL (Track Impunity Always – the Swiss Association against Impunity) recently filed three applications before the European Court of Human Rights against Bosnia-Herzegovina regarding the massacre of the Bačić and Horozović families, and the forced disappearance of Refik Bačić, perpetrated by Serb forces in 1992.
In July 1992, as...
Two swiss authors deny genocide in Srebrenica: Criminal complaint filed
19.04.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Common press release by the Society for Threatened Peoples (Switzerland) and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against impunity)
In an article in the bi-monthly newspaper La Nation, two authors qualify the genocide in Srebrenica as a “pseudo-massacre.” In response, the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Swiss Association Against Impunity (TRIAL)...
BiH : Tihovici massacre before the Human Rights Committee
16.04.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
The Advocacy Center – TRIAL (ACT) submitted this week a communication to the Human Rights Committee concerning the enforced disappearance and alleged arbitrary execution and the subsequent concealment of the mortal remains of Mr. Sejad Hero and Mr. Ramiz Kožljak occurred in July 1992.
Since its creation, ACT has submitted nine cases to the European Court of Human R...
International crimes: Switzerland to have a new law – but with limited application
19.03.2010 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
Geneva, 19 March 2010. Yesterday, the Council of States – Parliament’s higher chamber – passed a federal law incorporating into the Swiss penal code crimes provided for by the Statute of the International Criminal Court. TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against Impunity) takes note that Switzerland shall soon have at its disposal a more precise law to...