Publications

This submission highlights the relationship between State hostage-taking and torture, demonstrating its severe impact on survivors and their families. Drawing on international standards and trends, it explores legal and practical measures to address this practice, hold perpetrators accountable, and secure redress for survivors. While focusing on the UK context, the submission offers insights and recommendations relevant to all States.

The Victims' Rights Working Group (VRWG) published this briefing paper during a side-event at 23rd Session of the Assembly of State Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute. The paper identifies priority areas and key recommendations for the Court's strategy on victims' rights.

This briefing paper outlines where UK legislation falls short of upholding the torture ban and makes recommendations on eight laws that should be repealed or amended to comply with international law. These recommendations are the result of our three decades of experience pursuing justice and reparation for survivors of torture, and have been developed in collaboration with the Survivor Advisory Group and the UK anti-torture movement.

This Q&A explains key aspects covered in our Guide for Survivors and Affected Communities in Ukraine to Understand the International Criminal Court Proceedings and their Rights before the ICC.

This guide aims to help victims and affected communities in Ukraine navigate the International Criminal Court proceedings and gain a better understanding of how they can participate in these proceedings. The guide explains, for example, what is the role of the ICC in Ukraine, what are the different phases of ICC proceedings, in which stage is the Ukraine situation, the rights of victims before the ICC, and the type of reparations they are entitled to. This guide has been published with an accompanying Q&A, summarising some key areas.

An open letter from REDRESS and 12 leading international and Belarusian organisations calling on International Criminal Court State Parties to support Lithuania’s referral of the situation in #Belarus to the Court.

This Practice Note aims to provide guidance on the practical aspects of building compensation claims on behalf of torture survivors. It is focused primarily on litigation before regional and international human rights bodies, although it may also be useful to claims brought before national courts and other bodies.

This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the UK’s use of targeted sanctions between 9 May 2024 and 6 November 2024.