Publications

In anticipation of the Seventy-sixth Session of the International Law Commission beginning on 28 April 2025, members of the Global Initiative Against Impunity for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations (GIAI) write to provide comments to the Commission on article 7 of the draft articles on immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction.

REDRESS, CEDEP, and nine Malawian organisations under the Human Rights Grants make this submission as part of the 4th Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to highlight the issue of discriminatory violence, including torture, affecting individuals who identify as or are perceived to be LGBTIQ+ in Malawi. This submission identifies patterns of violence, intimidation, extortion, and harassment by law enforcement officers against the LGBTIQ+ community..

This Q&A is designed to answer frequently asked questions about the case of top former Salvadoran Military Officers for the 1982 murder of four Dutch reporters in Chalatenango. The Nuhanovic Foundation and REDRESS collaborated with Fundación Comunicándonos and ASDEHU. The Nuhanovic Foundation and REDRESS are supported by the United Against Torture Consortium.

The Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review 2025 examines criminal investigations into international crimes—such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, and enforced disappearances—brought under extraterritorial jurisdiction. Focusing primarily on cases initiated under universal jurisdiction, it also covers those based on active and passive personality principles. The report highlights new investigations opened or made public in 2024, excluding cases dismissed or not pursued by judicial authorities. Published by TRIAL International in collaboration with the Center for Justice and Accountability, Civitas Maxima, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights and REDRESS.

This briefing paper was prepared for parliamentarians on the Crime and Policing Bill. It recommends that MPs should seek to amend the Crime and Policing Bill to include provisions allowing instrumentalities, proceeds or property confiscated under POCA to be used for “public interests or social purposes”, where appropriate.

This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the United States’ (U.S.), United Kingdom’s (UK), European Union’s (EU), Canada’s and Australia’s use of its targeted human rights and anti-corruption sanctions programmes from 1 July 2024 to 31 December 2024.

Over two years, REDRESS, with support from the Global Survivors’ Fund, worked with partners in Chad, DRC, Kenya, and Nepal to promote the implementation of reparation decisions for survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV). Using survivor-centred, holistic strategic litigation and advocacy, the project aimed to build coalitions, support survivors, and foster knowledge exchange among practitioners. This brief shares key insights from the initiative and complements a fuller report that examines obstacles to implementation and highlights adaptable tools and techniques from 11 cases.

A letter to the Minister of State on behalf of Human Rights First President and CEO Susan Hendrickson and REDRESS Director Rupert Skilbeck recommending that the United Kingdom build on existing leadership in the use of targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions, in light of growing concerns that the new US administration is deprioritising efforts to defend human rights and fight corruption.