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REDRESS welcomes the Labour Party’s commitment to introduce a legal right to provide consular assistance to British nationals detained abroad, as announced today in a speech by the Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy. REDRESS has long argued that a right to consular protection for all British nationals should be… Read More

  WATCH THE RECORDING  On 21 September, the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) and REDRESS held a discussion on the behind-the-scenes story of what it took to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home at Hogan Lovells. After six years trapped in Iran, Nazanin was finally freed and reunited with… Read More

READ THE BRIEFING PAPER Governments around the world have expressed an interest in confiscating sanctioned Russian oligarch assets and repurposing them as reparations for victims in Ukraine. However, existing legislation is largely ill-equipped to achieve this goal.   (See our briefing: Repurposing Frozen… Read More

Download Briefing     متوفر باللغة العربية As a party to the UN Convention against Torture since August 2021, Sudan must prohibit, prevent, punish, and provide reparations for  torture and other ill-treatment. As part of this commitment, Sudan must ensure… Read More

Researchers from the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Essex, in partnership with REDRESS, have launched new international guidelines, the Belfast Guidelines on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies. The guidelines have been designed to share good practice with State and non-State actors on the implementation… Read More

The UK’s intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 provided a tip-off that led to the detention and torture of British blogger Jagtar Singh Johal, it is claimed in a legal claim filed by Mr Johal and supported by Reprieve and REDRESS. Jagtar Singh Johal is a British man from Dumbarton, who… Read More

READ THE REPORT Today, REDRESS and partner organisations Kdei Karuna and Global Survivors Fund’s (GSF) publish their new report entitled Cambodia Study on opportunities for reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV): left without Calla, which examines the scope and prevalence of… Read More

As the UK’s Magnitsky sanctions regime begins its third year, a cross-party group of MPs called on the UK Government to increase its use of sanctions to respond to egregious human rights abuses and corruption.   Read More