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Edgar Kaiser is a human rights lawyer from India and a recipient of REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award. He works with People’s Watch, an organisation dedicated to combating injustice and discrimination across India.  Edgar spoke to us about the challenges faced by human rights defenders, and the deep structural inequalities that… Read More

To mark four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, REDRESS and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation hosted an exhibition and panel discussion at the UK Parliament on 24 February 2026. The event highlighted what reparation would mean for survivors and how asset recovery could be used to fund reparation… Read More

By Iryna Dovhan, SEMA UKRAINE  My name is Iryna Dovhan. I am the founder and head of the organisation SEMA UKRAINE. We began our work in 2018 with the support of the Mukwege Foundation. Initially, we brought together women from the occupied Donbas, but over time survivors from all regions… Read More

By Cristián Correa, Head of Reparation Praxis Hub, Global Survivors Fund In the aftermath of the 2022 full-scale invasion, momentum around reparations for victims of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine grew rapidly, anchored by the UN General Assembly’s Resolution recognising the need for reparation. At the same time, Global Survivors… Read More

By Anastasiia Holovnenko, Advocacy Campaigns Lead at the Center for Civil Liberties For Western readers, Ukraine is often framed as a foreign war. In reality, its costs for other countries are already felt in energy bills, migration pressures, defence budgets, and the erosion of the rules meant to prevent wars like this in… Read More

READ THE BRIEFING During the July–August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, widespread and systematic human rights violations were committed against civilians. The government of Sheikh Hasina and allied groups were responsible for various human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, torture, serious injuries, and sexual violence.   Despite the… Read More

REDRESS, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), and the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) will host a side-event to the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the Pathways for Comprehensive Reparation for Survivors of Torture in Bangladesh. Date: Monday, 2 March 2026 Time: 14:00 – 15:00… Read More

Laura Medina is a human rights lawyer in Spain and a recipient of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award. She spoke about the realities of documenting and litigating torture in a system marked by institutional resistance. Working with Irídia – Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, Laura handles cases of… Read More