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REDRESS has responded to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr Alice Edwards, on the challenges preventing effective accountability and justice for victims and survivors of torture, and good practices on the duty to investigate crimes of torture. The input received will inform the report that… Read More

Read the report  Ahead of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran tomorrow, REDRESS and the Free Nazanin Campaign have published a report, which details for the first time the systematic pattern of human… Read More

Download our factsheet: The UK’s Use of Coordinated Magnistky Sanctions Today, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions called for greater coordination between the UK and its partners in imposing targeted “Magnitsky” sanctions against human rights abusers and corrupt actors. “Magnitsky” sanctions were first introduced by the… Read More

Facing significant gaps in the use of Magnitsky sanctions by the U.S., Canada, UK, and EU, leading human rights organisations have issued today the first-ever multilateral report calling for the more effective use of these human rights and anti-corruption accountability tools. Michael Breen, President and CEO of Human… Read More

**News update: The eight protestors were acquitted by the court on 6 March 2023. We will be updating our press release as more information becomes available. ** متوفر باللغة العربية REDRESS, the Missing Initiative, and the Sudanese Defenders Centre for Legal Aid have appealed… Read More

The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) together with REDRESS, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and FIACAT have produced a series of videos with the new UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Dr. Alice Edwards, on her main priorities for her… Read More

More than 2 years ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ruled in favour of Azul and held Peru responsible for the torture and other acts of violence that she suffered. On 3 November 2022, the Peruvian State for the first time apologised to a Peruvian citizen who is… Read More

Five years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a human rights defender and British citizen from Scotland was abducted in the streets of Punjab by Indian plain-clothes police officers, he remains unlawfully detained in India on baseless charges which carry the death penalty. This is despite strong evidence suggesting that the charges… Read More