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Upcoming changes to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mean that you have more control over how your personal contact details are used. This also means that we need you to tell us what information you want to keep receiving from us, so we can make sure that… Read More
A comparative study of the law and practice in 17 countries by Fair Trials and REDRESS calls on States and UN bodies to do more to tackle this problem In many countries around the world, authorities continue to rely on evidence obtained through torture, says a new report, ‘Tainted by… Read More
By Rupert Skilbeck, Director of REDRESS Human rights litigation can be used on behalf of an individual survivor of torture to hold governments to account before national courts, the regional human rights systems, and the UN Treaty Bodies. Criminal law can be used to punish individual perpetrators for torture on… Read More
The charges presented against British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal before an Indian court today are compromised by the strong allegations that he has suffered severe torture while in the custody of the Indian police, says human rights group REDRESS. Jagtar, otherwise known as “Jaggi”, from Dumbarton, asserts that from 4… Read More
On 15th May, Fair Trials and REDRESS are holding a panel event to launch their new report ‘Tainted by Torture’, which examines the legal regimes in place to exclude evidence obtained by torture, and reveals how some of these regimes are failing to operate in reality. International law prohibits the use… Read More
REDRESS is seeking applications from excellent law graduates and LLM students with a strong background in international human rights law to conduct research and analysis… Read More
REDRESS will attend the 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which will take place from 25 April to the 9 May in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and will also participate in the NGO Forum preceding the session. The African Commission is Africa’s principal human rights mechanism… Read More
Unilever PLC should reconsider the way it is dealing with a case brought by hundreds of survivors of attacks at one of its tea plantations in Kenya during the post-election violence in 2007, four human rights groups said in a letter sent to Unilever PLC’s CEO, Paul Polman. The… Read More