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REDRESS has urged Greece to bring its definition of torture into conformity with international law, at the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of Greece’s seventh periodic report on 24 and 25 July 2019. Ahead of the session REDRESS participated in a briefing with other NGOs and the members of the… Read More

REDRESS welcomes today’s decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber on reparations to victims of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga), settling the question of Lubanga’s liability for US$10 million for reparations for victims in the case. Lubanga, former leader of the Union des PatriotesCongolais/Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du… Read More

Eight UN human rights experts have expressed their serious concern about Iran’s denial of much needed medical treatments to detainees, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. They say it appears to be a “consistent pattern”, referencing the cases of Arash Sadeghi, Ahmadreza Djalali, Kamran Ghaderi, Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, some of whom… Read More

For more than three years Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been arbitrarily detained in Iran, separated from her now five-year-old daughter Gabriella and her husband Richard, who lives in London. Nazanin and Richard recently underwent a two-week hunger strike to call once again for her release. More needs to be done to… Read More

Today REDRESS is joining survivors and human rights organisations from across the globe to mark the United Nation’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, we express our solidarity with, and support for, the hundreds of thousands of victims of torture and their family members throughout… Read More

The UK Supreme Court is today and tomorrow hearing an appeal in the case of R v Agnes Reeves Taylor. Ms Taylor is charged with seven counts of torture and one count of conspiracy to commit torture, allegedly committed during the first Liberian Civil War in 1990. Redress is participating… Read More

Statement of the Victims’ Rights Working Group 21 June 2019 The Victims’ Rights Working Group (VRWG) calls upon the international community to exert maximum effort to ensure that ousted Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, and the other suspects against whom arrest warrants have been issued for crimes in Darfur, Sudan,… Read More

Emerging Solutions Africa (ESA), the Uganda Victims Foundation (UVF) and Redress – organisations working with victims in the areas most affected by the two-decade long conflict in Uganda – welcome the approval by the Cabinet of Uganda of a Transitional Justice Policy (TJP) on 17 June 2019. The Policy brings… Read More