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En Français ici REDRESS, together with FIDH and ECCHR, has launched a new two-year project to promote the investigation and prosecution by EU Member States of perpetrators of international crimes and to improve victims’ access to justice. This project drives forward our longstanding collaborative effort to combat… Read More

Six high-level UN human rights experts have called today on Iran to urgently provide Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe and fellow prisoner Narges Mohammadi access to adequate medical care, and reiterated calls for their release, as they reach the third day of their hunger strike. In a public statement, the UN… Read More

The appalling and ongoing violations of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s rights demand that the UK Government pursue all available options to protect her and obtain redress, including placing her under diplomatic protection as she starts a hunger strike today. Iranian authorities have restricted calls to her family, reduced food rations and have… Read More

In October 2019, elections to the UN Committee against Torture will take place as the term of five Committee members ends on 31 December 2019. REDRESS and other human rights NGOs are encouraging States parties to consider the key criteria highlighted by the organisations here for the selection of… Read More

The Council of Europe has re-emphasised the need for Greece to improve its law and practice on the prosecution of torture. In a decision issued on 6 December 2018, the Committee of Ministers increased the pressure on Greece to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in… Read More

Victims have waited long enough for the International Criminal Court to work out procedures, and it must now act to realise victims’ rights under the Rome Statute, said Lorraine Smith Van Lin, REDRESS Legal Adviser, today during a high-level event to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the… Read More

7,000 victims of the Hissein Habré regime have requested the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to refer to the African Court a complaint that they filed at the Commission last year. The complaint seeks the enforcement of a landmark judgment from 2015 that awarded approximately $125million USD to the victims… Read More

REDRESS will join International Criminal Court States Parties in The Hague for the 17th Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute to address issues central to the ICC’s operations from 5 to 12 December 2018. This year, REDRESS will use the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of the Rome… Read More