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(Addis Ababa, Éthiopie, le 7 février 2018) – L’adoption par l’Union africaine d’un Statut pour le Fonds fiduciaire au profit des victimes des crimes d’Hissène Habré marque un développement important en faveur de la justice. Le Fonds sera désormais en mesure de commencer à collecter et débourser les réparations dues… Read More

REDRESS releases findings of new report, Beyond Discretion: The protection of British nationals abroad from torture and ill-treatment REDRESS has today published a report, Beyond Discretion: The protection of British nationals abroad from torture and ill-treatment, which takes a closer look at the experiences of several British nationals… Read More

UN expert urged to call on India to immediately investigate alleged torture of Jagtar Singh Johal while in police custody Human rights organisations REDRESS and Ensaaf today have filed an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture in the case of Jagtar Singh Johal, “Jaggi”,… Read More

(Part-Time position: 1 Day per week) Job Advertisement Founded in 1992 and registered in the UK and The Netherlands, REDRESS is a small, specialised and widely respected human rights organisation that works internationally to obtain justice for survivors of torture and end impunity for governments and the individuals… Read More

REDRESS / SIHA JOINT PRESS RELEASE The report, ‘Criminalisation of Women in Sudan: A Need for Fundamental Reform’, shows how public order laws, designed to protect morality, continue to disproportionately target women, who can face long spells in jail and flogging for infractions such as wearing ‘trousers’. The Strategic… Read More

Today, 7,000 victims of the Hissein Habré regime filed a human rights complaint against the Government of Chad before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Africa’s premier human rights institution. Read More

The UK must place British mother and charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe under the diplomatic protection of the United Kingdom, following the continued fallout from the Foreign Secretary’s erroneous comments, says REDRESS, upon the release today of a legal opinion on diplomatic protection, prepared by Professor John Dugard SC (associate tenant,… Read More

“We welcome the correction issued by the Foreign Secretary today and his clarification that Nazanin was purely on holiday in Iran when she was arrested. There is no basis to justify her arrest or continued imprisonment and the extreme pain and suffering she has been subjected to either under Iranian or international law,… Read More