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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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Training journalists on human rights reporting
06.07.2016 - (Last modified: 13.07.2016)
2015 Activity Report
22.06.2016 - (Last modified: 25.08.2016)
«Please try to obtain justice elsewhere!», says ECHR to Torture Victims
21.06.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Geneva, 21 June 2016 - In a judgment delivered today, the European Court of Human Rights narrowly ruled that Switzerland did not breach the European Convention on Human Rights by denying a Tunisian torture victim the right to seek reparations from his torturer. The victim, who was granted refugee status in Switzerland years ago in light of the torture he had endured,...
Tunisia: Victory at the UN for a torture victim
14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 10.11.2016)
UN highlights poor child protection in armed conflict
14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 03.11.2016)
Law clinic program ends with flying colors
14.06.2016
A pilot project to facilitate access to justice
14.06.2016 - (Last modified: 27.02.2017)
TRIAL turns fourteen and change is in the air
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR) 2016
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 23.02.2023)
Tortured, harassed, and driven into exile to save his family
06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 01.02.2018)
One morning in 2006 as he was leaving his house, Alain (not his real name) found himself eye to eye with about twenty policemen who had come to arrest him. Immediately taken to the police station, he was – wrongly – accused of preparing a coup d’état.
Faced with his refusal to acknowledge the false allegations, the agents beat him. Alain was severely beaten and la...