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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

Читати українською By Victoria Kerr  REDRESS Consultant Legal Officer Vast violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law including forced displacement, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, have been reported during Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, the conflict in… Read More

The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, and five United Nations Special Rapporteurs have written to Unilever Plc, expressing their deep concern about the lack of access to justice and an effective remedy provided by Unilever to a group of (former) Unilever workers who were brutally assaulted… Read More

In a unanimous Chamber judgment on 12 September 2023, the European Court of Human Rights found that, in 2017, Maksim Grigoryevich Lapunov – an openly gay Russian man – had been seized in public by police in Chechnya, held incommunicado and tortured… Read More