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From 14-15 November, REDRESS’s Legal Advisor, Chris Esdaile, is participating in the annual meeting of the Pan-African Reparations Initiative (PARI) convened by our partners, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), focussing on “The situation of torture in Africa”. PARI brings together approximately 30 experts and organisations… Read More

India must stop ignoring its international obligations and urgently investigate the alleged torture of Jagtar Singh Johal, said human rights organisation REDRESS, as an event in the UK Parliament on Wednesday 14 November 2018 will mark the first year since his arrest in India. Plain-clothes police officers seized, hooded and… Read More

REDRESS is seeking applications from excellent graduates, postgraduates and individuals in the early stages of their careers with a strong background in international human rights law to contribute to its work in either London or The Hague. We seek to provide REDRESS interns with the experience of working in an… Read More

REDRESS is an international human rights organisation based in London and The Hague that represents victims of torture to obtain justice and reparation. We bring legal cases on behalf of individual victims of torture, and advocate for better laws to provide effective reparations. Our cases respond to torture as an… Read More

Read it in English here REDRESS, en partenariat avec la FIDH et Trust Africa, a tenu un séminaire sur la représentation des victimes devant la Cour pénale spéciale de Centrafrique, devant 18 avocats de victimes inscrit au Barreau de Centrafrique. Le séminaire a été tenu du 29… Read More

En Français ici REDRESS, in partnership with FIDH and Trust Africa, has held a workshop on the representation of victims before the Special Criminal Court (SCC) of the Central African Republic for 18 victims’ lawyers at the Central African Bar. The workshop was held in Bangui, CAR,… Read More

REDRESS has filed a submission with the Council of Europe addressing Greece’s failure to implement the 2012 decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Zontul v Greece. The decision found that Greek law was incompatible with the country’s international obligations to prevent and prosecute torture. Greece’s continuing failure… Read More

REDRESS has filed a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ali Aarrass, who was deported from Spain to Morocco and tortured there. Ali Aarrass, a Belgiam-Moroccan national, was forcibly returned by Spain to Morocco on 14 December 2010, despite warnings from the UN… Read More