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READ OUR ANNUAL REVIEW 2022 This article is part of a series of ‘In Focus’ pieces looking at some of our key achievements over the past year. In it, REDRESS Legal Advisor Chris Esdaile discusses the case of Magdulein Abaida, a Libyan women’s rights activist who secured… Read More
READ OUR ANNUAL REVIEW 2022 This article is part of a series of ‘In Focus’ pieces looking at some of our key achievements over the past year. In it, REDRESS Legal Advisor Leanna Burnard outlines the work that REDRESS has been doing under our Reparations programme, including… Read More
On Sunday October 2nd Catherine, Dan C., Ellie, Dan W., Walker, Rosie, James and Harriet ran 26.2 miles at the 2022 London Marathon on behalf of REDRESS to raise money for our work to help survivors of torture. There was plenty of support along the way, with home-made… Read More
Freshfields, 100 Bishopsgate, London EC2P 2SR Monday 14 November 2022 5-7pm followed by a reception WATCH THE RECORDING On 14 November, REDRESS, the Centre for Human Rights Law at SOAS and Forrest Medico-Legal Services launched the latest edition of the Istanbul Protocol, the global standards for the… Read More
Today, REDRESS and our Malawian partners, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), made a submission to the Committee against Torture as part of its examination of Malawi’s treaty obligations, which will take place between 31 October and 25 November 2022. The submission… Read More
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