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Challenges, Opportunities and Comparative Experiences 1 July 2021 2.30 – 3.45 PM (UK) 3.30 – 4.45 PM (South Africa) Languages available: English, French and Portuguese Register here Violence against the LGBT+ community often amounts to torture or ill-treatment, for example, violent arbitrary arrests, forced medical examinations, ‘corrective rapes’,… Read More

Read the press release in English Paris, Londres, Ndjamena, New-York, 30 mai 2021 — Cinq ans après le jugement historique au Sénégal de l’ancien dictateur tchadien Hissène Habré, les victimes de son régime violent n’ont pas vu un centime des 150 millions de dollars de réparations ordonnées… Read More

Lire le communiqué de presse en français Paris London, Ndjamena, New York — Five years after the historic judgment in Senegal against the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, victims of his brutal regime have not seen a cent of the $150 million court-ordered reparations.  A coalition of… Read More

Read the Policy Briefing    متوفر باللغة العربية Sudan’s transitional government has taken some important steps towards securing justice for past human rights violations and international crimes in Sudan. Increased cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) evidences a commitment by the transitional government… Read More

On 29 April 2021 the Overseas Operation Act received Royal Assent, and became law in the United Kingdom. The final law was significantly different to the Bill as originally proposed, particularly with regard to the offence of torture, and other international crimes, although the law as passed still… Read More

Today’s launch of the Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions Regime by the Foreign Secretary is welcomed by a coalition of the UK’s leading anti-corruption organisations. The regime, if robustly implemented, will help the UK: Coordinate more effectively with allies like the US and Canada to close down the west as a safe… Read More

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has received a further sentence of one year. It is not clear whether she will be returned to prison or house arrest with an ankle tag.  Nazanin’s lawyer was summoned to Judge Salavati’s office today, where he was told… Read More

The 2021 Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR), published today by TRIAL International, REDRESS, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights, the Center for Justice and Accountability and Civitas Maxima, highlights the impact of covid-19 on prosecutions of torture, war crimes… Read More