Today marks the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), the REDRESS Trust (REDRESS) and the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY) wish to express their condemnation and concern over the continuing acts of torture and other ill-treatment in… Read More
قراءة باللغة العربية The Sudanese government should immediately charge or release recently detained political activists, and investigate all allegations that they have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for… Read More
Tomorrow the international community will honour victims of torture on the UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture. On this day REDRESS pays tribute to the increasing number of survivors who are rising up to demand justice and, in so doing, helping to turn the tide from a culture… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the launch of a new International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, a new tool in the fight against impunity that will be presented on Wednesday at a global summit in London. The Protocol sets out best practice standards for documenting and investigating… Read More
REDRESS and five other organisations have lodged today a complaint against Sudan with Africa’s main human rights body, urging it to request Sudan to immediately release from prison Meriam Ibrahim and her two children, and to suspend a sentence of death and corporal punishment of 100 lashes for apostasy and adultery, which a Sudanese court imposed in May.
REDRESS together with Advocacy Forum Nepal and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) submitted this General Allegation to a number of UN Special Procedure mandate holders arguing that the newly adopted Truth and Reconciliation Act in Nepal breaches international law and promotes impunity. Some of the concerns raised in our submission include… Read More
The Victims’ Rights Working Group – a network of civil society groups and experts informally facilitated by REDRESS – has issued this paper highlighting the group’s views on the system of victim participation before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The paper will be used as an advocacy tool with both… Read More
Submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of its Examination of Sudan’s Fourth Periodic Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, June 2014.