In October 2019, elections to the UN Committee against Torture will take place as the term of five Committee members ends on 31 December 2019. REDRESS and other human rights NGOs are encouraging States parties to consider the key criteria highlighted by the organisations here for the selection of… Read More
Keynote speech by Lorraine Smith van Lin during a high-level Rome Statute anniversary event organised by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Peace Palace on 4 December 2018. … Read More
The Council of Europe has re-emphasised the need for Greece to improve its law and practice on the prosecution of torture. In a decision issued on 6 December 2018, the Committee of Ministers increased the pressure on Greece to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in… Read More
Victims have waited long enough for the International Criminal Court to work out procedures, and it must now act to realise victims’ rights under the Rome Statute, said Lorraine Smith Van Lin, REDRESS Legal Adviser, today during a high-level event to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the… Read More
7,000 victims of the Hissein Habré regime have requested the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to refer to the African Court a complaint that they filed at the Commission last year. The complaint seeks the enforcement of a landmark judgment from 2015 that awarded approximately $125million USD to the victims… Read More
REDRESS will join International Criminal Court States Parties in The Hague for the 17th Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute to address issues central to the ICC’s operations from 5 to 12 December 2018. This year, REDRESS will use the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of the Rome… Read More
From 14-15 November, REDRESS’s Legal Advisor, Chris Esdaile, is participating in the annual meeting of the Pan-African Reparations Initiative (PARI) convened by our partners, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), focussing on “The situation of torture in Africa”. PARI brings together approximately 30 experts and organisations… Read More
India must stop ignoring its international obligations and urgently investigate the alleged torture of Jagtar Singh Johal, said human rights organisation REDRESS, as an event in the UK Parliament on Wednesday 14 November 2018 will mark the first year since his arrest in India. Plain-clothes police officers seized, hooded and… Read More
