Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written to the UK government to warn that five UK laws risk undermining the UK’s duty to investigate and prosecute torture and other serious human rights violations, and may cause it to breach its obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. … Read More
This case concerns the arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of Magdy El-Baghdady by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS, now the General Intelligence Service) in 2011. In 2024, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found Sudan responsible for serious human rights violations and ordered reparation measures, including… Read More
On 4 November 2025, during Malawi’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), numerous UN Member States urged Malawi to decriminalise consensual same-sex relations and take concrete steps to prevent, investigate, and prosecute acts of torture, ill-treatment, and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ persons. The UPR is… Read More
Today marks eight years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, Scotland, was violently arrested by authorities in Jalandhar, northern India. Plainclothes officials hooded him on a crowded street and forced him into an unmarked police car — without a warrant. He has been separated from his… Read More
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) has recently made public three decisions finding Sudan responsible for grave violations. The long-awaited decisions, which relate to events between 2011 and 2014, identify key structural drivers of torture and other serious human rights violations in Sudan and call… Read More
The United Against Torture Consortium condemns the ongoing judicial harassment, intimidation, and smear campaigns targeting human rights defenders and journalists in Georgia, including those monitoring police brutality and extracustodial torture and providing vital assistance to survivors of torture and other ill-treatment. Between November 2024 and February 2025, a nationwide wave of… Read More
In a ground-breaking ruling, senior UK judges have for the first time clarified what it means for UK intelligence services to be “complicit” in torture or other ill-treatment by foreign States during intelligence operations. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the UK’s tribunal overseeing complaints about intelligence agencies, has set… Read More
This submission offers evidence in response to the House of Lords Select Committee on International Agreements’ call for evidence in relation to their inquiry investigating the impacts and implications of the UK-India Free Trade Agreement for the UK. This submission addresses the question: What are the human rights implications of… Read More
