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by Alejandra Vicente, REDRESS Head of Law In 2024 alone, India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), an oversight body, recorded 130 new custodial deaths complaints, pushing the total pending cases before this body to over 2,400. This figure, while jarring, represents only the tip of the iceberg and does… Read More

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Against Torture Consortium urges States to take real action to end torture and ill-treatment   Torture and… Read More

REDRESS will share the findings of their newly released reports and, alongside expert speakers, highlight… Read More

Masafu Okwara is a lawyer at the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) and a recipient of REDRESS’s Innovative Lawyers Awards. She spoke with REDRESS about confronting discrimination and violence against LGBTIQ+ people in Kenya. Through NGLHRC’s Legal Aid Clinic, she provides free legal representation to LGBTIQ+… Read More

Between 10 and 13 June 2025 a UK Tribunal will hold an unprecedented trial to consider the extent of British involvement in the torture of Mustafa al-Hawsawi by US forces, marking the first time a UK judicial body has scrutinised alleged UK complicity in CIA abuses.  … Read More

6 June 2025 – The Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) forcefully condemns the United States government’s decision to impose sanctions on four sitting judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their work on the Palestine and Afghanistan situations. The US is not only targeting specific cases, it is… Read More

By Peace Amito Programme Manager Consultant In 2024, the Citizens’ Gavel Foundation for Social Justice, a Nigerian legal advocacy NGO, secured the release of Taiwo Dosunmu, a videographer arbitrarily detained and subjected to ill-treatment for four years following the #EndSARS protests. Although Taiwo was not a protester, he was… Read More

By Natalia Kubesch, Legal Officer As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship and violent conflict, marked by repression and grave human rights violations, civilians continue to face extreme hardship. Their suffering has been aggravated by urgent humanitarian needs, with half the population displaced and facing severe food insecurity. Meanwhile, significant assets… Read More