Publications

REDRESS and 60+ organisations working across the UK signed this joint briefing to reject the Illegal Migration Bill in its entirety to protect everyone's right and urge Parliamentarians to support the Lords Amendment to mitigate its worst effects.

This is a joint CSO letter dated 10 July 2023 to the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations ahead of the semi-annual briefing by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the United Nations Security Council, urging the UK to lead the way in ensuring the ICC can properly address ongoing international crimes being committed in Sudan.

On the second anniversary of Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace's hunger strike, REDRESS and 18 other  organisations have written the Bahraini authorities to express grave concern for the well-being of Dr Al-Singace, an academic, award-winning human rights defender and blogger serving a life sentence in Bahrain solely for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.  

This briefing sets out the relevant international standards concerning the duty to investigate torture against LGBTIQ+ persons and offers concrete recommendations to strengthen the legal framework and improve the practice of investigations into such discriminatory violence.

This report identifies opportunities and challenges for reparations of survivors of sexual and-gender based violence in Chad. The report shows how victims of CRSV have received no financial compensation or other forms of reparations, such as rehabilitation, despite sexual violence being so systematic under Habré that they were characterised as a crime against humanity by the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), an ad hoc court sitting in Senegal, established by Senegal and the African Union. 

This briefing paper focuses on the way in which the Illegal Migration Bill, if passed, would result in the UK breaching its obligations under international law against torture, in particular, the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, both of which the UK has ratified.  

This is a joint NGO Letter to the Core Group and Co-Sponsoring States of the Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and other International Crimes (“MLA Convention”) in response to version 30/11/2022 of the Draft MLA Convention and in advance of the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the MLA Convention to be held in Ljubljana on 15-26 May 2023.

This guidance note provides best practice guidance for civil society organisations on collating evidence for the purpose of preparing sanctions submissions under the UK’s targeted sanctions regimes.