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
For the first time in its history, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which decides on complaints of human rights violations in the Americas, will hold tomorrow an oral hearing in a landmark case concerning allegations of torture committed by police officers against a gay Peruvian because of his sexual… Read More
In a statement during an event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on 28 November 2016, REDRESS Director Carla Ferstman reiterated the crucial role of the WGAD several REDRESS’ cases involving arbitrary detention, including the cases of Zeinab Jalalian, Andargachew “Andy” Tsege and Nazanin… Read More
With the International Criminal Court (ICC) conducting its first reparations proceedings in four separate cases, the Victims’ Rights Working Group’s participation in the 15th session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) focused on how to best give full effect to the rights of victims as enshrined in the Rome… Read More