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When national systems cannot or will not investigate the gravest crimes, international justice helps ensure that no one is beyond the reach of the law. For many victims and survivors who have been denied justice for years, sometimes decades, it provides a pathway to truth, recognition and accountability. Read More

REDRESS welcomes the UK Government’s appointment of Alistair Burt as the newly created Envoy for Complex Consular Detentions as a necessary step towards strengthening the UK’s response to the growing challenge of State hostage-taking.  The appointment follows years of advocacy by REDRESS and other civil society organisations, alongside survivors… Read More

In February 2011, following a violent crackdown on civilian protesters, the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On 21 May 2026, more than fifteen years later, in a major milestone for survivors, the first individual accused of crimes… Read More

By Matthew Hedges, Member of the Survivor Advisory Group Established in 2022, the Survivor Advisory Group is a survivor-led body that empowers and supports survivors to lead initiatives confronting torture. We are a diverse group of torture survivors from Bahrain, Chad, DRC, Iran, UK, and Zimbabwe. Despite our differences… Read More

By Bhubaneswari Swain, ILA Awardee  Bhubaneswari Swain is an Indian human rights lawyer and winner of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. She is an activist with Safe Odisha For Her, an initiative that seeks to transform a village into a model violence-free community by addressing deeply rooted caste- and gender-based violence. Through her work, she leads campaigns promoting the rights… Read More

By Ana Cutts Dougherty, Consultant Lawyer At a critical moment for the design of reparation for Ukraine, survivor voices helped shape the conversation in The Hague (Netherlands) around what an effective, accessible, and credible international compensation process must deliver in practice.  The discussion brought survivor-activists into direct dialogue with… Read More

Read our Impact Report Read our 26 June Newsletter On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), together with the European External Action Service (EEAS), will reaffirm its shared commitment to combating torture and other… Read More

By Juliana Laguna Trujillo and Valeria Babără from Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice  On 28 April 2026, Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its Reparations Order in the Al Hassan case. In a unanimous decision, the Chamber set Al Hassan’s liability at €7,250,000, estimated… Read More