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TRIAL International provides legal support to victims, litigates cases, collaborates with local actors to promote the sharing of expertise, and advocates for human rights.




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Nepal nervous about its past

08.10.2018 - (Last modified: 20.12.2018)
The decade-long Nepalese civil war left an open wound. Those who try to break the silence on human rights violations com...
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...

Christian: Kidnapped, reported missing, and eventually executed

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 09.01.2019)
In December 2015, in Burundi, unidentified armed individuals carried out attacks on four military bases, in and around...

Pascal: Found executed a few days after his arrest

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In the summer of 2015, Pascal (real name withheld) received numerous alarming calls informing him that he was actively...

Enforced disappearance and torture due to political activism

20.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
In April 2015 in Burundi, many people took to the streets to demonstrate against the renewal of President Pierre Nkurun...

Oral statement on Burundi before the Human Rights Council

18.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
Together with NGOs FIACAT, CCPR Center, DefendDefenders, OMCT and Protection International, TRIAL International has spon...

Is Switzerland becoming a safe haven for war criminals?

18.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
A UN report recently made public points the finger at Switzerland. In two criminal cases for war crimes, the Office of t...

ICC withdrawal: Kinshasa issues alarming statement

17.09.2018 - (Last modified: 26.09.2018)
In a media release on 15 September 2018, the Congolese government stated it “did not exclude” withdrawing from the juris...
On 5 September 2018, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi (CoI) released its second - and possibly final - set of co...

Guatemala: the justice system at risk

07.09.2018 - (Last modified: 19.12.2018)
On August 31, President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity...
Prison
Kamala Katwal was only 12 years old when her father was taken by the authorities – never to be seen again. As the eldest...
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