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Join REDRESS and Good Law Project at 6pm on Wednesday 9 March for an online discussion on the current fragile state of UK citizenship. Read More

Human rights groups welcomed the arrest by British police of a Sri Lankan suspect in the murder of BBC journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam in Jaffna. The Metropolitan Police War Crimes team announced [1] the arrest of a 48-year old man, whom they didn’t name, after conducting what they called… Read More

Read the NGO submission An NGO coalition has called on States to include provisions on asset recovery in a new multilateral treaty that is being drafted and which seeks to improve international cooperation in the domestic prosecution of serious international crimes. Doing so would enhance opportunities… Read More

A coalition of 10 Ugandan and international organisations, has requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to put Ugandan victims at the centre of the ongoing reparations proceedings in the case of Dominic Ongwen by way of a third-party intervention (also called “amicus”). Last year, the ICC found Dominic… Read More

Today, REDRESS has submitted evidence to the U.S. Government requesting that 11 Sudanese individuals and four entities be designated for sanctions based on their involvement in serious human rights violations since the October military coup in Sudan. This follows similar submissions made by REDRESS to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development… Read More

REDRESS is pleased to welcome the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez and renowned British lawyer Sir Howard Morrison, a former judge of the International Criminal Court, as Patrons of REDRESS. REDRESS is also delighted to announce the appointment of Yemsrach Hailemariam and Evan Williams to our Board of Trustees.   REDRESS’s Patrons play an invaluable role in raising the profile of our work on behalf of torture survivors while… Read More

Today, REDRESS and the Centre for Human Rights at University of Pretoria held a roundtable discussion on the challenges faced in documenting, investigating and addressing torture against LGBTIQ+ persons in Africa. Organisations and practitioners from eight different African countries contributed to an insightful discussion and suggested specific… Read More

** News update: Amiera Osman was released in the early hours of 7 February 2022 on bail. We will be updating our press release as more information becomes available. ** متوفر باللغة العربية REDRESS has appealed to United Nations experts to urgently intervene on behalf of… Read More