We support and strengthen the anti-torture movement
For more than 30 years, REDRESS has worked with anti-torture civil society organisations across the world. The partnerships that REDRESS cultivates are mutually beneficial and are crucial to our work.
Our Solidarity programme seeks to enhance a global community of practice that works to advance cases against torture.
This work includes engaging the anti-torture movement through building and promoting resilience, networks, encouraging mutual exchange of experiences, promoting the use of holistic strategic litigation as a tool against torture, encouraging our volunteers, and engaging with academic experts, among others.
REDRESS supports the anti-torture movement through activities andproviding support to survivors, CSOs, lawyers, human rights defenders, activists and journalists around the world seeking justice and reparation for survivors.
REDRESS supports the anti-torture movement through:
We understand community of practice as a group of organisations, practitioners, activists, and survivors that aim to exchange experiences and share a common interest in delivering campaigns with the objective of strengthening the anti-torture movement.
The communities of practice are intended to learn from practical experiences to reach individual and common objectives. REDRESS is promoting several communities of practice according to its areas of work and expertise, including reparation,universal jurisdiction, LGBTIQ+ torture, and sanctions.
To contribute to the communities of practice, REDRESS promotes dialogue between practitioners to exchange practical experiences. REDRESS has prepared a series of strategies for this exchange, including:
Litigation workshops: We deliver strategic litigation workshops that bring lawyers, activists, organisations, survivors, and other practitioners together to share their experiences and develop new skills, while also developing concrete plans for individual cases and campaigns. Workshops provide a good forum in which to share good practices, review the strategy of individual cases, and develop advocacy plans and other techniques that enhance the prospect of success of legal claims.
Practice Notes: These offer practical guidance for practitioners, activists, and survivors on different matters, as well as examples from REDRESS’s practice. We consult our partners in the process of drafting these documents and ask regularly feedback for the development of future practice notes.
Newsletter: Our regular roundup of news on reparation curated by the REDRESS legal team, keeping you up to date with the latest developments on reparation for torture and other human rights violations, including judgments, implementation of decisions, reports, and other news.
Videos: Introductory videos offering definitions and explanations in a visual way.
Webinars: Recordings of our past webinars delivered together with partners and survivor’s organisation, and upcoming ones you can sign up to.
REDRESS work towards supporting and strengthening the anti-torture movement in collaboration with partners through networks, including the Victims’ Rights Working Group, the Pan-African Reparations Initiative, and the Universal Jurisdiction Information Network.
The organisational-strengthening project, led by REDRESS, is a strategy focused on mutual technical learning through sharing our experiences in several areas. These include policy development, communication campaigns, operations and IT, a survivor-centred approach, fundraising, finance, community engagement, and advocacy. If your organisation is interested in participating in the organisational-strengthening project, please contact our Legal Officer, Alejandro, at [email protected].
