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On 1-3 December, nine Caribbean countries, involving 23 government representatives, took part in an online workshop organised by the Convention against Torture Initiative, REDRESS and the Commonwealth Secretariat, hosted by the Governments of Chile and Grenada. The workshop was designed to support Caribbean governments to ratify, implement and report under the UN Convention against Torture and focused specifically on drafting cogent legal provisions for the criminalisation, prosecution and prevention of acts of torture and other ill-treatment. Read More

Register here 15 December, 1-2:15 PM (GMT) | 4-5:15 PM (ETA) Join us for a conversation commemorating the 10th anniversary of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPED) coming to force. To this day, 98 States have signed the ICPED, and… Read More

Today, the High Court in Nairobi issued a landmark judgment finding the Kenyan government responsible for failure to protect, investigate and prosecute the post-election sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) that took place in Kenya in 2007-2008. The court awarded 4 million KSH in reparations in favor of each of the… Read More

The ICC Prosecutor’s decision to close a preliminary examination into alleged war crimes committed by British personnel during British military operations in Iraq, announced today, highlights the need for the UK to continue pursuing accountability domestically for the alleged crimes in the light of the extent and gravity… Read More

REDRESS and 14 other organisations have signed a joint statement welcoming the EU’s adoption of a new global human rights (Magnitsky) sanctions regime and calling for corruption or corrupt practices linked to the financing of human rights violations to be added as listing… Read More

متوفر باللغة العربية The Sudanese transitional government must show its commitment to breaking with a decades-long legacy of systemic human rights violations by ratifying the two main international human rights treaties that ban torture and enforced disappearances. In a letter to the Sudanese transitional government, over 20… Read More

Following a series of Parliamentary Questions (and associated Freedom of Information Act requests) the Government has finally published a “Review of Complex Consular Cases” prepared by Dame Judith MacGregor in June 2019.   REDRESS welcomes the findings and recommendations of the Review, and the response of the… Read More

The Brereton Report, a four-year inquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, has found credible information related to the unlawful killing of 39 unarmed civilians or prisoners and the mistreatment of two unarmed individuals.  According to the report, the unlawful killings… Read More