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READ THE BRIEFING PAPER On Tuesday, the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss stated to the Foreign Affairs Committee that she was “supportive of the concept” of confiscating frozen Russian assets and repurposing them for victims in Ukraine and that the… Read More

As legal representatives for former Iran hostage, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and her husband Richard Ratcliffe, REDRESS has submitted evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee inquiry into the handling of state level hostage situations. The submission focuses on the following topics: … Read More

See the report     متوفر باللغة العربية A new research paper from REDRESS and the SOAS Centre for Human Rights Law, Sudan’s Democratic Transition on Life Support, situates Sudan’s current political and human rights crisis within the broader historical… Read More

As today marks the third anniversary of the “Khartoum Massacre” which took place on 3 June 2019 , REDRESS and Sudanese Archive have written to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) urging it to intervene in relation to the enforced disappearances that took place… Read More

St James’s Church, Piccadilly 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL Time: 3 pm Register free on Eventbrite An inter-faith service will be held at St James’s Church Piccadilly in London to commemorate 26 June with a service of solidarity in support of victims and survivors of torture. The… Read More

Read the press release in English Six ans après la condamnation de Hissène Habré, l’Union africaine et le Tchad n’ont toujours pas rempli leurs obligations à l’égard des victimes. Les victimes de l’ancien dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré attendent toujours de… Read More

Lire le communiqué de presse en français Six Years After Hissène Habré’s Conviction, African Union and Chad Fail Victims The victims of the late Chadian president Hissène Habré have yet to receive any reparations, six years after his historic conviction in Senegal, seven organisations said today. On… Read More

REDRESS together with partner organizations Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), MENA Rights Group, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) welcome the adoption of the first African instrument aimed to eradicate and prevent enforced disappearances, and to improve the… Read More