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A mere 24 months after their launch, the transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms of Nepal, face closing down. TRIAL International, REDRESS, HimRights, Advocacy Forum and JuRI-Nepal urge the Government of Nepal to extend their mandate and provide them with sufficient resources. The process must be… Read More

Leading human rights organisations have hailed a landmark decision of the UK Supreme Court to hold the UK Government accountable for its role in human rights abuses overseas. The country’s highest court issued today a long-awaited judgment in the two joined appeals in Belhaj and Others v. Jack Straw &… Read More

The trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which starts today in The Hague, presents the best prospect yet for victims of the brutal two-decade conflict in northern Uganda to have the terrible harm that they suffered acknowledged at last. Over 4,000 victims are… Read More

For the first time in its history, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which decides on complaints of human rights violations in the Americas, will hold tomorrow an oral hearing in a landmark case concerning allegations of torture committed by police officers against a gay Peruvian because of his sexual… Read More

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has called on Iran to immediately release and compensate Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a dual British-Iranian national held in Iran since 3 April 2016. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe visited her family in Tehran in March 2016, with her two-year-old daughter Gabriella. Iranian authorities arrested… Read More

Today human rights organisation REDRESS officially started their operations in The Hague, the international city of peace and justice. REDRESS works to eradicate the practice of torture, prosecute torturers and ensure that survivors of torture obtain reparation for all the harm they suffered. The new organisation in The Hague will… Read More

Today, in the first English case in which a Court has been asked to make a specific finding on the role of customary international law with respect to a “special mission” visit to the UK, the Divisional Court ruled that customary international law requires States to secure, for the duration of a “special mission” visit, personal inviolability and immunity from criminal jurisdiction for the members of the “special mission”. Read More

lire en arabe Today’s reparation judgment against ex Chadian dictator Hissène Habré (convicted for crimes against humanity, torture and war crimes on 30 May 2016) represents a pivotal moment in his victims’ fight for justice, as reparation will help mend the terrible damage done to them… Read More