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Read Dr. Alice Edwards’ full speech On 11 November 2025, we hosted a crucial discussion in Westminster on how the UK can align its domestic laws with its international obligations to prevent torture. The event, co-hosted by REDRESS, the Survivor Advisory Group, and the All-Party Parliamentary… Read More

Survivors of torture are often the ones who articulate most clearly what justice truly means. Today, we share a personal message from the García Family, a powerful expression of pain, healing, and hope following the recent apology issued by the Chilean State to Leopoldo García Lucero’s family.  The… Read More

We are deeply saddened about the passing of Najlaa Ahmed, our dear friend, ally, and former Sudan Project Officer, on 3 November 2025.  Najlaa was a courageous and highly respected British-Sudanese human rights lawyer who inspired and energised countless people in the human rights movement. She formed… Read More

Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written to the UK government to warn that five UK laws risk undermining the UK’s duty to investigate and prosecute torture and other serious human rights violations, and may cause it to breach its obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. … Read More

On 4 November 2025, during Malawi’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), numerous UN Member States urged Malawi to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations and take concrete steps to prevent, investigate, and prosecute acts of torture, ill-treatment, and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ persons. The UPR is… Read More

Today marks eight years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, Scotland, was violently arrested by authorities in Jalandhar, northern India. Plainclothes officials hooded him on a crowded street and forced him into an unmarked police car — without a warrant. He has been separated from his… Read More

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) has recently made public three decisions finding Sudan responsible for grave violations. The long-awaited decisions, which relate to events between 2011 and 2014, identify key structural drivers of torture and other serious human rights violations in Sudan and call… Read More

The United Against Torture Consortium condemns the ongoing judicial harassment, intimidation, and smear campaigns targeting human rights defenders and journalists in Georgia, including those monitoring police brutality and extracustodial torture and providing vital assistance to survivors of torture and other ill-treatment. Between November 2024 and February 2025, a nationwide wave of… Read More