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In September 2012, TRIAL and 9 associations working with women victims of the war submitted a 72-page report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women highlighting Bosnia-Herzevogina's failure to enforce this category of victims' right to obtain truth, justice and reparation.

In September 2012, TRIAL, together with six associations of relatives of missing persons, four associations dealing with the subject of rape or other forms of sexual violence during the war, and seven associations or federations of associations of former camp-detainees, submitted a report highlighting the violations of the fundamental rights suffered by the above-ment...

In August 2012, TRIAL and other international and national associations active in Nepal submitted a briefing note to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence about the negative consequences of the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly on the transitional justice process.

Geneva, 27 July 2012 TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) participated in the examination of the third periodic report of Kenya before UN Human Rights Committee. TRIAL expressed concerns at the situation of impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of the gross violations committed in the context of a 2008 security operation in Mt. Elgon. In its concluding observa...

Despite the positive achievement of the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (hereinafter: the Convention), the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) have not recognized the crucial competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances to receive and consider individual and inter-state commun...

TRIAL has sent on behalf of the Swiss Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CSCPI) a letter to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs asking Switzerland to follow up not the pledges made during the Review Conference of the Rome Statute in June 2010 that took place in Kampala, Uganda. The NGOs members of the CSCPI regret notably that Switzerland i...

Introduction In August 2008, TRIAL submitted an individual communication to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on behalf of Mrs Taous Djebbar and Mr Saadi Chihoub, acting in the name of their sons, Djamel and Mourad Chihoub. Djamel Chihoub first, then his brother Mourad six months latter, were arrested by members of the Algerian army and are have been repporte...

Sarajevo / Geneva, 28 May 2012 TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) presented today a report on the situation of former camp detainees in Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Drafted in cooperation wi...

Geneva / Kathmandu – 21 May 2012 After thirteen years of despair, of denial and of waiting for truth and justice, two families of victims of enforced disappearance during the civil conflict in Nepal bring their case to the United Nations. The perpetrators must be brought to account, says TRIAL - a Geneva-based human rights organisation. Thirteen years ago to thi...

In May 2012, TRIAL submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture. The report highlights the existing obstacles in the implementation of the Convention against Torture by Mexico, providing numerous concrete examples as well as recommendations to improve the situation. The report was submitted in partnership with seven Mexican and Central Ame...

Geneva / Sarajevo, 5 April 2012 Under the title BETWEEN STIGMA AND OBLIVION, A Guide on Defending the Rights of Women Victims of Rape or other Forms of Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, TRIAL has just published, in cooperation with UN Women a legal Guide for victims of sexual violence committed during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using true e...