DOWNLOAD CASEBOOK 2 JOIN OUR WEBINAR By Ana Cutts Dougherty, Legal Consultant, and Renata Politi, Senior Legal Advisor Today, REDRESS is launching the second casebook in our series cataloguing leading strategic cases against torture. This new edition focuses on cases where torture and other forms of ill-treatment have been used to silence dissent — targeting protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, environmental… Read More
This is the sixth blog in a series featuring legal representatives and experts in the field of strategic litigation against torture, discussing the strategic impact of cases catalogued in Casebook 1. In this blog post, Elba Bendo, Lawyer at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), examines the most strategic… Read More
This is the fifth blog in a series featuring legal representatives and experts in the field of strategic litigation against torture discussing the strategic impact of cases catalogued in Casebook 1. In this blog piece, Natasha Arnpreister, Senior Legal Counsel and James Goldston, Executive Director of Open Society Justice Initiative,… Read More
Benoit Meystre, one of the Legal Representatives in the A V. Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland case, describes the features of the case.
Professor Lutz Oette, one of the interveners in the Gäfgen in the Gäfgen v. Germany (2010) case, describes the features of the case.
Velasquez Rodriguez has remained the most widely cited of the Inter-American Court’s decisions and its pronouncements regarding State obligations in the face of the most serious human rights violations has been reaffirmed numerous times in the almost four decades that have followed.
REDRESS's new Casebook series showcases around 80 case studies of strategic litigation against torture from around the world to illustrate best practice and to help strengthen the capacity of human rights lawyers worldwide.
