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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

Register here Panel on the ‘Situation of Enforced Disappearances in Africa: Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances in Africa’ 67th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 19 November, 12:15 – 13:45 PM (GMT) Today, the Working Group on Death Penalty, Extrajudicial,… Read More

REDRESS has made a submission to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office seeking the imposition of sanctions on senior Chinese officials in response to human rights violations in Xinjiang, China.  The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 give the UK Foreign Secretary the power to… Read More

17 NOVEMBER 2020, 1 PM – 2 PM (GMT) Simultaneous translation: French, English, Arabic. Register here Join a conversation on transitional justice in Sudan on a side event on the margins of the 67th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The 2018… Read More

Listen to the podcast Are amnesties for human rights violations ever acceptable? Tomorrow, Libya Matters, the podcast produced by the team at Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), will explore this question with our… Read More

On this day three years ago, Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, was hooded and seized from the streets of Punjab by Indian plain-clothes police officers. He asserts he was then severely tortured while in detention. Jagtar alleges that electric shocks were administered to his ears, nipples and… Read More

REDRESS and over 20 other Afghan, Australian and international human rights and legal organisations have written to the Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, Major General Justice Paul Brereton, urging him to commit to releasing the report of the Inquiry into allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL)… Read More