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Roberta Cortés Ruiz is a human rights lawyer from Mexico and a recipient of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award. She works as a consultant and accompanies survivors of torture and other human rights violations in their pursuit of justice. Roberta has collaborated with Almas Cautivas, an… Read More

By Annelies Van Twembeke Campos  REDRESS Legal Intern  Nearly a year since the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte, the long-awaited confirmation of charges hearing against the former Philippine President took place from 23 to 27 February 2026 at the International Criminal Court (ICC).  Duterte faces three counts of murder as a crime against humanity, meaning that the Prosecutor believes that the acts were committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against… Read More

Over the past decade, digital tools and emerging technologies have reshaped how information about serious international crimes are documented, verified and shared. For Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), these developments have created new opportunities to support accountability efforts, particularly in identifying and tracking suspects across borders. At the same time, they raise complex questions about coordination, security, due process and privacy. … Read More

The undersigned organizations provisionally welcome the Egyptian government’s announcement regarding the development of a new National Human Rights Strategy, while underscoring the shortcomings and failings of the previous Strategy. In its announcement, Egypt’s Technical Secretariat of the Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights (SSCHR) referred to the “notable progress achieved… Read More

Edgar Kaiser is a human rights lawyer from India and a recipient of REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award. He works with People’s Watch, an organisation dedicated to combating injustice and discrimination across India.  Edgar spoke to us about the challenges faced by human rights defenders, and the deep structural inequalities that… Read More

To mark four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, REDRESS and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation hosted an exhibition and panel discussion at the UK Parliament on 24 February 2026. The event highlighted what reparation would mean for survivors and how asset recovery could be used to fund reparation… Read More

By Anastasiia Holovnenko, Advocacy Campaigns Lead at the Center for Civil Liberties For Western readers, Ukraine is often framed as a foreign war. In reality, its costs for other countries are already felt in energy bills, migration pressures, defence budgets, and the erosion of the rules meant to prevent wars like this in… Read More

READ THE BRIEFING During the July–August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, widespread and systematic human rights violations were committed against civilians. The government of Sheikh Hasina and allied groups were responsible for various human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, torture, serious injuries, and sexual violence.   Despite the… Read More