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REDRESS is seeking applications from excellent law graduates and LLM students with a strong background in international human rights law to conduct research and analysis… Read More

REDRESS will attend the 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which will take place from 25 April to the 9 May in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and will also participate in the NGO Forum preceding the session. The African Commission is Africa’s principal human rights mechanism… Read More

Unilever PLC should reconsider the way it is dealing with a case brought by hundreds of survivors of attacks at one of its tea plantations in Kenya during the post-election violence in 2007, four human rights groups said in a letter sent to Unilever PLC’s CEO, Paul Polman. The… Read More

The UK government should seize the opportunity of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United Kindgom to demand an immediate investigation into allegations that Indian police officers tortured British national Jagtar Singh Johal. The government should also seek guarantees that Jagtar will be protected from further harm and… Read More

This report, ‘Fostering Victims’ Rights in the Proposed Crimes Against Humanity Convention’, has been submitted to the International Law Commission as part of its ongoing drafting of a Crimes Against Humanity Convention. REDRESS suggests that the final text of any new Crimes against Humanity Convention is consistent with standards that… Read More

EJIL: Talk! has published a piece by Charlie Loudon, International Legal Adviser at REDRESS, on the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Naït-Liman v Switzerland. REDRESS participated in the case as a third-party intervener. You can read Charlie’s piece on EJIL: Talk! here. You can… Read More

Our annual report for 2018 provides an overview of the work that REDRESS undertook from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. Read More

Initiative comes ahead of comedy event with Al Murray, Shappi Khorsdani, Mark Steel and Sara Pascoe marking two years of detention. ‘Laughter is a kind of freedom’ – Richard Ratcliffe Ahead of a comedy event that will throw a spotlight on the plight of the jailed UK-Iranian… Read More