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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
On Tuesday 19 July, REDRESS Director Rupert Skilbeck and barrister Tatyana Eatwell gave oral evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons for their Inquiry into the Handling of State Hostage Situations. REDRESS has acted as legal representatives for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was held hostage in Iran… Read More
Download the report The UK is home to between 60,000 and 98,000 survivors of torture in the refugee population alone, according to some studies. A new REDRESS report, Whose Justice? Reflections from UK-based survivors of torture, confirms that contrary… Read More
READ THE BRIEFING PAPER On Tuesday, the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss stated to the Foreign Affairs Committee that she was “supportive of the concept” of confiscating frozen Russian assets and repurposing them for victims in Ukraine and that the… Read More