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New sanctions to tackle corruption abroad are welcome, but the UK urgently needs to get serious about a more holistic approach to tackling UK money laundering of ill gotten gains if the regime is to have credibility The UK UK Anti-Corruption Coalition said: “We want the UK’s anti-corruption sanctions regime… Read More

As the UK’s human rights sanctions programme marks its first anniversary, how has the Government used its new powers? Who has been sanctioned, where, and why? By Charlie Loudon, International Legal Adviser, and Celeste Kmiotek, Legal Fellow Launched with fanfare one year ago on 6 July 2020, the UK’s Global… Read More

This week REDRESS made a submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Republic of Lithuania.  The contribution focuses on the lack of effective investigation into Lithuania’s complicity in, and facilitation of, the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Program.  Detailed analysis of publicly available evidence on the… Read More

This blog piece was originally published in the Oxford Human Rights Hub blog * Over the next few months, REDRESS will be publishing a series of practice notes on strategic litigation against torture. The first of these, published today, is The Law Against Torture, a guide setting out… Read More

By Lisa-Marie Rudi, Consultant Legal Officer  In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 19 June the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict to emphasise the need to put an end to such violence, to honour survivors around the world and to pay tribute to… Read More

متوفر باللغة العربية Libya failed to protect an Eritrean national from being tortured and suffering other grave human rights violations in detention and must provide him with reparations, Lawyers for Justice in Libya and REDRESS said in a joint submission to the UN Human… Read More

Challenges, Opportunities and Comparative Experiences 1 July 2021 2.30 – 3.45 PM (UK) 3.30 – 4.45 PM (South Africa) Languages available: English, French and Portuguese Register here Violence against the LGBT+ community often amounts to torture or ill-treatment, for example, violent arbitrary arrests, forced medical examinations, ‘corrective rapes’,… Read More

Read the press release in English Paris, Londres, Ndjamena, New-York, 30 mai 2021 — Cinq ans après le jugement historique au Sénégal de l’ancien dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré, les victimes de son régime violent n’ont pas vu un centime des 150 millions de dollars de réparations ordonnées… Read More