Publications

Global Initiative against Impunity (GIAI) briefing welcoming the adoption of the revised EU Victims’ Rights Directive and setting out recommendations on how the upcoming Strategy on Victims’ Rights  2026–2030 Strategy could strengthen the implementation of rights for victims of core international crimes.

This briefing paper outlines El Ghan’s case, which is emblematic of activists and protesters in Western Sahara who suffer human rights violations and pursue justice. Morocco, the Committee Against Torture (CAT) and others in the international community should take urgent steps to ensure that all people in Western Sahara are protected from torture and ill-treatment and that, for those who have already been subjected to human rights abuses, effective remedies and reparation are facilitated.

Developed in the framework of the Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) by TRIAL International with Civil Rights Defenders, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and REDRESS, this comparative study examines what makes cooperation effective in practice, where difficulties arise, and how relationships between CSOs and domestic authorities can be strengthened.

In recent years the UK has chipped away at the framework designed to prevent torture, dropping its anti-torture strategy and introducing laws that put survivors of torture at risk or make it harder to hold those responsible for torture to account. These proposals are a starting point for the Government to uphold the torture ban and support survivors in the UK.

This factsheet provides an overview of the achievements and impact of the Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) from 2023 to 2025 across its priority areas, including victims' rights and participation, immunity and non-cooperation, universal jurisdiction, gender justice, and upholding and strengthening international justice. The Global Initiative Against Impunity: Making Justice Work is a civil society-led consortium  advancing inclusive, survivor-centred justice for international crimes and serious human rights violations in 28 countries worldwide.

In this fact sheet, the United Against Torture Consortium members – IRCT, FIACAT, Omega, OMCT, and REDRESS – together with Change Africa Trust, the Center for Strategic Litigation, and the Pan African LawyersUnion, call on United Nations Member States participating in the Human Rights Council's (HRC) fourth-cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Republic of Tanzania to recommend that Tanzania end torture and other grave human rights violations, and ensure accountability and access to effective remedies for victims.

This Q&A has been prepared jointly by the International Federation for Human Rights, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, Center for Truth & Justice, Global Justice Center, REDRESS, and Synergy for Justice. The aim is to provide accessible details, clarify misconceptions, and highlight important considerations on the external investigation into alleged sexual misconduct and retaliation by the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and the disciplinary proceedings now before the Assembly of States Parties, the ICC's oversight and legislative body composed of the 125 States Parties to the Rome Statute.

A Joint Statement by Amnesty International, Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Association for the Prevention of Torture, Capital Punishment Justice Project, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights, Odhikar, Omega Research Foundation, Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, REDRESS and World Organisation Against Torture on the draft NHRC Bill of Bangladesh