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Persistent obstacles often undermine member states’ compliance with decisions issued by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). These include the lack of political will, inaccessible or unclear domestic enforcement mechanisms, poor monitoring, and limited use of the Commission’s follow-up procedures. Together, these factors weaken the African… Read More

The absolute prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment extends beyond places of deprivation of liberty; it also applies in extra-custodial settings including during protests and other assemblies.   Yet, the management of protests is all too often characterised by violent repression and excessive use of force to… Read More

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

By Vivian Kasunda, Criminal Justice Researcher at the Southern Africa Litigation Centre Police abuse, such as torture, poses a serious concern that undermines the rule of law and aggravates human rights violations. Despite Malawi’s constitutional provisions prohibiting torture and international obligations to protect human rights, torture and cruel, inhuman, 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