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By Matthew Hedges, Member of the Survivor Advisory Group Established in 2022, the Survivor Advisory Group is a survivor-led body that empowers and supports survivors to lead initiatives confronting torture. We are a diverse group of torture survivors from Bahrain, Chad, DRC, Iran, UK, and Zimbabwe. Despite our differences… Read More

By Bhubaneswari Swain, ILA Awardee  Bhubaneswari Swain is an Indian human rights lawyer and winner of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. She is an activist with Safe Odisha For Her, an initiative that seeks to transform a village into a model violence-free community by addressing deeply rooted caste- and gender-based violence. Through her work, she leads campaigns promoting the rights… Read More

By Ana Cutts Dougherty, Consultant Lawyer At a critical moment for the design of reparation for Ukraine, survivor voices helped shape the conversation in The Hague (Netherlands) around what an effective, accessible, and credible international compensation process must deliver in practice.  The discussion brought survivor-activists into direct dialogue with… Read More

Read our Impact Report Read our 26 June Newsletter On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), together with the European External Action Service (EEAS), will reaffirm its shared commitment to combating torture and other… Read More

I, Olena Volodymyrivna Yahupova, was captured by Russian forces during the full-scale invasion in 2022, where I endured torture, physical and psychological abuse, sexual violence, and forced labor.  After my release from captivity, I was granted the status of a person deprived of personal liberty, a victim… Read More

por Abigail Martínez Ortiz, Premios a las y los Abogados Innovadores de REDRESS Read in English Abigail Martínez Ortiz es una abogada mexicana de derechos humanos y ganadora de los REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. Trabaja como Colaboradora en Tejiendo Redes contra la Tortura, una coalición de organizaciones… Read More

by Abigail Martínez Ortiz, Innovative Lawyers Awards Winner Leer en español Abigail Martínez Ortiz is a Mexican human rights lawyer and a winner of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. She works as a collaborator at Tejiendo Redes contra la Tortura (Weaving Networks against Torture), a coalition of… Read More

By Rupert Skilbeck, Director, REDRESS DOWNLOAD CASEBOOK 3 REDRESS has published a new casebook which tells the stories of some of the most significant legal cases challenging torture over the last decades. This latest edition focuses on 32 key decisions in the UK relating to torture,… Read More