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… Read More
In July 2026, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the revised EU Victims’ Rights Directive, a key piece of EU legislation providing for the minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime. The revised Article 9(3)(b) of the Directive expressly included, for… Read More
By Reesey Du Pont, Legal Fellow REDRESS and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) submitted a joint complaint to the UN Human Rights Council concerning the treatment of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, India. The complaint was developed in close collaboration with Indian experts… Read More
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… Read More
Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Ali Kushayb), a leader of the former Janjaweed militia, was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out in Darfur, Sudan, committed between August 2003 and April 2004. Following his conviction, the ICC is expected… Read More
Today, after almost nine years in arbitrary detention, our client Jagtar Singh Johal was finally granted bail in all the remaining cases against him. Jagtar is a British human rights activist from Dumbarton, Scotland, who was targeted for his activism, according to UN experts. … Read More
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… Read More
Members of the United Against Torture Consortium, REDRESS and OMCT, will participate in an international human rights observation mission in Barcelona to monitor the trial, which begins today, concerning the serious injuries suffered by demonstrator Roger Español during the 2017 Catalan referendum. Español lost his sight in one… Read More