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A UN body has expressed its concern over torture and other ill-treatment in Egypt after assessing the country’s compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture.   The UN Committee Against Torture highlighted the “numerous and consistent allegations of systematic use of torture and ill-treatment”… Read More

REDRESS and Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) have filed a complaint before a UN body on behalf of an Eritrean migrant which corroborates the serious crimes, including enslavement, enforced disappearance and torture, that migrants and refugees have been systematically subjected to in Libya.  The complaint before… Read More

By Victoria Kerr, Consultant Legal Officer and Natalia Kubesch, Legal Officer  Read the submission Both the UK and the EU have moved swiftly to impose sanctions against… Read More

Read our briefing By Natalia Kubesch, Legal Officer at REDRESS Victims of human rights violations have the right to effective reparations for the suffering inflicted on them. However, such reparations are not always accessible in practice, leaving victims without redress. Meanwhile, those responsible for the… Read More

One year ago today, Nasta Lojka, a prominent human rights defender and one of the founders of Human Constanta, was arrested for the third time in Minsk by riot police officers. She was then questioned about her human rights work, ill-treated, and forced to record a “confession” on video. Read More

পড়ুন বাংলাদেশি ভাষায় In the run-up to next January’s general elections, human rights violations are increasing in Bangladesh.  Allegations of torture and ill-treatment by the security forces are multiplying, so are cases of judicial harassment of political opponents and human rights defenders, as well as attacks on minority groups. Read More

Read it in English আগামী জানুয়ারির সাধারণ নির্বাচনের তোড়জোড়ে বাংলাদেশে মানবাধিকার লঙ্ঘনের ঘটনা  বেড়েই চলেছে। পুলিশ কর্তৃক নির্যাতন ও দুর্ব্যবহারের অভিযোগ বহুগুণ বেড়ে চলেছে এবং তার সাথে বাড়ছে রাজনৈতিক প্রতিপক্ষ এবং মানবাধিকার রক্ষাকারীদের বিচারিক হয়রানির পাশাপাশি সংখ্যালঘু গোষ্ঠীর উপর হামলার ঘটনাও। এই উদ্বেগজনক প্রেক্ষাপটের মধ্যে, ইউনাইটেড এগেইনস্ট… Read More

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