When national systems cannot or will not investigate the gravest crimes, international justice helps ensure that no one is beyond the reach of the law. For many victims and survivors who have been denied justice for years, sometimes decades, it provides a pathway to truth, recognition and accountability. Read More
This section is dedicated to sharing the perspectives, progress, and insights of lawyers, activists, survivors and others engaged in the field of reparation. These contributions are invaluable in enriching our collective understanding and fostering meaningful dialogue within the reparation community of practice. If you would like to feature in… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the UK Government’s appointment of Alistair Burt as the newly created Envoy for Complex Consular Detentions as a necessary step towards strengthening the UK’s response to the growing challenge of State hostage-taking. The appointment follows years of advocacy by REDRESS and other civil society organisations, alongside survivors… Read More
In February 2011, following a violent crackdown on civilian protesters, the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On 21 May 2026, more than fifteen years later, in a major milestone for survivors, the first individual accused of crimes committed in Libya finally faced charges before the Court, as the… Read More
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… Read More
By Matthew Hedges, Member of the Survivor Advisory Group Established in 2022, the Survivor Advisory Group is a survivor-led body that empowers and supports survivors to lead initiatives confronting torture. We are a diverse group of torture survivors from Bahrain, Chad, DRC, Iran, UK, and Zimbabwe. Despite our differences… Read More
By Bhubaneswari Swain, ILA Awardee Bhubaneswari Swain is an Indian human rights lawyer and winner of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. She is an activist with Safe Odisha For Her, an initiative that seeks to transform a village into a model violence-free community by addressing deeply rooted caste- and gender-based violence. Through her work, she leads campaigns promoting the rights… Read More
By Ana Cutts Dougherty, Consultant Lawyer At a critical moment for the design of reparation for Ukraine, survivor voices helped shape the conversation in The Hague (Netherlands) around what an effective, accessible, and credible international compensation process must deliver in practice. The discussion brought survivor-activists into direct dialogue with… Read More