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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s “unnecessarily defensive culture” prevents the department from learning from past mistakes in addressing the mistreatment of British nationals detained abroad, concludes the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) in a critical follow-up report published today.  The follow-up report comes… Read More

Read the report A new report from REDRESS and the Clooney Foundation for Justice, “Global Britain, Global Justice”, examines how the UK has faltered in its historical commitment to international justice due to a myriad of legal, practical and political challenges that have… Read More

The European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited judgment, unanimously finding that Turkey failed to investigate the torture suffered by REDRESS client A.B. in May 2003, and awarding him 10,000 Euros in compensation.  The Turkish Constitutional Court having already decided that the State’s investigation –… Read More

READ THE BRIEFING A new briefing paper by a coalition of international and Belarusian NGOs highlights the myriad of challenges that prevent survivors of torture and other human rights violations from pursuing justice inside and outside Belarus. On 8 February 2023, Belarus withdrew from the individual complaints’… Read More

The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a landmark resolution establishing an independent international fact-finding mission  for Sudan. This follows a call from 120 Sudanese and international CSOs, including REDRESS, that an independent mechanism was urgently needed to undertake a… Read More

REDRESS welcomes the Labour Party’s commitment to introduce a legal right to consular assistance to British nationals detained abroad, and establish a new special envoy to oversee cases of arbitrary detention and hostage-taking, as announced today by the Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.   The… Read More

Вікторія Керр Консультантка з правових питань REDRESS Окупація Росією Криму в 2014 році, конфлікт на сході України, що триває з 2014 року, та повномасштабне вторгнення Росії в Україну, що розпочалося 24 лютого 2022 року, принесли з собою масштабні порушення міжнародного права прав людини та міжнародного гуманітарного права, включаючи примусове переміщення,… Read More

Today, a coalition of international and Egyptian NGOs has submitted a detailed legal analysis to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that the Egyptian authorities’ use of torture is so widespread and systematic as to amount to a crime against humanity under customary international law. The legal analysis forms the… Read More