Earlier today, the UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced that the Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) would be shut down as early as this summer. According to Minister Fallon, IHAT – established in 2010 to investigate over 3,000 allegations of abuse by UK soldiers in Iraq – was able… Read More
A mere 24 months after their launch, the transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms of Nepal, face closing down. TRIAL International, REDRESS, HimRights, Advocacy Forum and JuRI-Nepal urge the Government of Nepal to extend their mandate and provide them with sufficient resources. The process must be… Read More
Authored in collaboration with Barbara Maigari (JI Fellow) Partners West Africa-Nigeria and Legal Resources Consortium, this Commentary considers the challenges and opportunities present in the adoption of a comprehensive anti-torture bill in Nigeria, and offers concrete recommendations for its introduction to relevant stakeholders. Relying on interviews with national experts, a comprehensive… Read More
This report summarises the proceedings of the stakeholder roundtable organised by the Human Rights Center at the University of California, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and REDRESS, to assess how to best incorporate techniques of victim participation at the ICC and other comparative jurisdictions into the workings of… Read More
Leading human rights organisations have hailed a landmark decision of the UK Supreme Court to hold the UK Government accountable for its role in human rights abuses overseas. The country’s highest court issued today a long-awaited judgment in the two joined appeals in Belhaj and Others v. Jack Straw &… Read More
Please read our Strategic Plan and most recent Evaluations below: REDRESS Strategy 2018-2020 (September 2018) Evaluation of the REDRESS Project: Reparation for Torture: Global Sharing of Expertise – EIDHR/2013/318-874 (Susie Alegre, January 2017) … Read More
REDRESS was founded on 10 December 1992, which is International Human Rights Day. The original Articles of Association were amended in February 2020 to bring them up to date. REDRESS Articles of Association… Read More
The trial of Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which starts today in The Hague, presents the best prospect yet for victims of the brutal two-decade conflict in northern Uganda to have the terrible harm that they suffered acknowledged at last. Over 4,000 victims are… Read More