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قراءة باللغة العربية REDRESS and other rights groups welcome the decision Africa’s main human rights treaty body has made which recognises Sudan’s obligation to protect human rights defenders and to ensure that their work promoting and protecting the rights of others is not hindered or frustrated. The… Read More

Maroc : 9 ONG inquiètes des mesures d’intimidation exercées contre les victimes de tortures et une ONG qui les représente Après l’assignation en justice de l’ACAT (Action des Chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture) par le Maroc, 9 ONG de défense des droits de l’homme expriment leur inquiétude face aux… Read More

A body of UN human rights experts has again found Nepal in breach of its international obligations for failing to respond to human rights violations during the conflict – this time in relation to the arrest, ill-treatment and killing of schoolgirl by Government troops. Subhadra Chaulagain, a 17-year-old girl, was… Read More

REDRESS welcomes the transfer of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen to the International Criminal Court today as an important step towards accountability for the egregious crimes committed by the LRA against thousands of defenceless men, women and children in northern Uganda. “LRA leaders have evaded accountability for… Read More

The full scale of how the USA engaged in torture and brutally violated other fundamental human rights of detainees after the 9/11 attacks was laid bare yesterday. Now it is time for the UK Government to come clean about its own involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programme,… Read More

قراءة باللغة العربية REDRESS, and many other individuals and organisations around the world, are extremely concerned by the continuing secret detention of Dr. Amin Mekki Medani. On Saturday, 4 December 2014, Dr. Medani and Mr. Farouq Abuessa – who is also still being detained – were… Read More

Today, the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda withdrew the charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta, who had been charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya, which left over 1,100 people dead and several hundred thousands of other victims. The Prosecutor announced her decision two days… Read More

 Luis Alberto Rojas was tortured and sexually assaulted in 2008 by police officers from the Ascope district in Trujillo. The Peruvian investigation into the allegation was closed.  Promsex, the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos and REDRESS, the rights organizations who are supporting the case, welcome this important step… Read More