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Dame Rosalyn Higgins, former President of the International Court of Justice, is helping REDRESS celebrate its 20th Anniversary today with a talk and a reception at the Inner Temple. Dame Rosalyn’s talk, “The campaign for justice for torture survivors in the context of the human rights developments of the last… Read More

REDRESS is holding a reception at the House of Lords tomorrow to pay tribute to the late Lord Peter Archer of Sandwell QC and the help he graciously gave REDRESS over many years. The event will be hosted by Lord Frank Judd and is by kind permission of the Lord… Read More

In a report released today, an important parliamentary committee has again called on the UK Government to designate Bahrain as a “country of concern” in its human rights policies, reflecting REDRESS’ ongoing concerns about the human rights situation in Bahrain. Earlier this year, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) released… Read More

Three elderly Kenyan victims of torture during the Mau Mau independence struggle in the 1950s today won a historic legal victory against the British Government, after the High Court rejected the Government’s argument that their claims are time barred under English law. The case will now proceed to a full… Read More

On 25 September, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the prohibition of the use of evidence allegedly obtained under torture in criminal proceedings in a case against Belgium. REDRESS and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which have both intervened as amicus curiae, welcome the ruling… Read More

Dadimos Haile, a former Ethiopian High Court judge, has been appointed interim director of REDRESS, an organization which helps torture survivors seek justice. He will take up the role on 1 October 2012 on a 9-month secondment. Haile will be covering for Carla Ferstman, REDRESS’ permanent director, who has received… Read More

Today the International Criminal Court in The Hague begins hearing closing arguments in the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first case to reach this stage at the ICC. Read More

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has again found the government of Nepal responsible for the disappearance and torture of one of its citizens, and called on it to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. And, in a first for such a case, as part of the remedy awarded, Nepal’s government… Read More