On this European Day for Victims of Crime, Victim Support Europe and signatories of this statement stand in solidarity with all victims of a crime across Europe, no matter who the victim is, no matter where the crime took place, no matter what it was. Each year, more… Read More
Coinciding with Human Rights Day and Anti-Corruption Day, the UK government has imposed 30 sanctions on 26 individuals and four entities from 11 different countries (Russia/Crimea, Iran, Kosovo, Mali, Moldova, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Serbia, South Sudan, and Uganda). This includes 21 individuals and four entities for their involvement… Read More
Read the report Ahead of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran tomorrow, REDRESS and the Free Nazanin Campaign have published a report, which details for the first time the systematic pattern of human… Read More
Facing significant gaps in the use of Magnitsky sanctions by the U.S., Canada, UK, and EU, leading human rights organisations have issued today the first-ever multilateral report calling for the more effective use of these human rights and anti-corruption accountability tools. Michael Breen, President and CEO of Human… Read More
Five years since Jagtar Singh Johal, a human rights defender and British citizen from Scotland was abducted in the streets of Punjab by Indian plain-clothes police officers, he remains unlawfully detained in India on baseless charges which carry the death penalty. This is despite strong evidence suggesting that the charges… Read More
Four leading international human rights and medical NGOs condemn the arbitrary arrest on 27 October of Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincancı, chairperson of the Turkish Medical Association and executive committee member of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey. The organisations demand Dr. Fincancı’s immediate, unconditional release and that Turkish authorities… Read More
Read a Q&A on the EDA Guidelines REDRESS, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, MENA Rights Group, Lawyers for Justice in Libya, and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies welcome the launch today of new regional guidelines aimed at supporting African States eradicate the practice of… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the Labour Party’s commitment to introduce a legal right to provide consular assistance to British Nationals detained abroad, as announced today in a speech by the Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy. REDRESS has long argued that a right to consular protection for all British nationals should be… Read More