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lire en français On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, five leading human rights organisations are calling on African states to end the use of enforced disappearances and ensure justice and reparations for thousands of victims in Africa. For decades, thousands of people including… Read More

Lea el comunicado en español (Barranquilla, Colombia) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Americas´ highest human rights court, will consider today for the first time in its history a case of discriminatory torture against an LGBTI person. The case refers to the sexual violence suffered by Azul Rojas… Read More

Read the press release in English (Barranquilla, Colombia) La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH), la más alta en la materia en las Américas, considerará hoy por primera vez en su historia un caso de tortura por discriminación contra una persona LGTBI en América Latina. Se trata del… Read More

REDRESS has urged Greece to bring its definition of torture into conformity with international law, at the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of Greece’s seventh periodic report on 24 and 25 July 2019. Ahead of the session REDRESS participated in a briefing with other NGOs and the members of the… Read More

REDRESS welcomes today’s decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber on reparations to victims of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga), settling the question of Lubanga’s liability for US$10 million for reparations for victims in the case. Lubanga, former leader of the Union des PatriotesCongolais/Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du… Read More

Eight UN human rights experts have expressed their serious concern about Iran’s denial of much needed medical treatments to detainees, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. They say it appears to be a “consistent pattern”, referencing the cases of Arash Sadeghi, Ahmadreza Djalali, Kamran Ghaderi, Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, some of whom… Read More

For more than three years Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been arbitrarily detained in Iran, separated from her now five-year-old daughter Gabriella and her husband Richard, who lives in London. Nazanin and Richard recently underwent a two-week hunger strike to call once again for her release. More needs to be done to… Read More

Today REDRESS is joining survivors and human rights organisations from across the globe to mark the United Nation’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, we express our solidarity with, and support for, the hundreds of thousands of victims of torture and their family members throughout… Read More