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WATCH THE WEBINAR How do we document torture and mass atrocities without harming the people whose stories we rely on? This question shaped REDRESS’ recent webinar on “Centring Survivors’ Voices in Accountability Processes: Survivor-Centred Approaches to Documentation.” The event held on the 10th of… Read More

Despite institutional and civil society efforts, a significant gap remains in the implementation of decisions of the African Commission of Human and People Rights (ACHPR), particularly those awarding reparations to victims and survivors of torture and other human rights violations. Multiple obstacles continue to hinder the effective delivery… Read More

Statement (English) Заява (українською) Today, States will gather for a diplomatic conference in The Hague for the opening of the Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine. The Convention establishes an administrative body which will assess claims of compensation for “damage, loss, or injury” caused by Russian… Read More

On 13 December, the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenko released over a hundred political prisoners following an agreement with the United States to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash. Among the released are prominent human rights defenders and Viasna members Ales Bialiatski and Uladzimir Labkovich, as well as key opposition… Read More

By Malak Khalil, Advocacy and Survivor Participation Fellow Despite estimates that the United Kingdom is home to tens of thousands of torture survivors, there is still no coherent dataset — or even an authoritative estimate — of how many people in the UK have experienced torture. This gap persists… Read More

READ THE GUIDE Protests and public gatherings are a vital part of any democratic society. Yet, in recent years, demonstrations around the world have too often been met with excessive force by law enforcement agencies – from batons and kinetic impact projectiles, to tear gas and projectile electric shock weapons. Such misuse of force not only chills free expression but can amount to… Read More

Read the Annual Review 2025 By Chris Esdaile, Senior Legal Advisor Around 5,000 Britons are arrested abroad each year, and 186 were tortured or ill-treated in 2024 alone. Cases like those of our clients Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Nicholas Tuffney show how… Read More

This year’s annual Assembly of States Parties (ASP24) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), will take place from 1-6 December. This session comes at a critical time for the ICC, in a context of intense global scrutiny and backlash. This context is one of sanctions imposed… Read More