No more Cracking of the Whip: Time to end Corporal Punishment in Sudan
This report examines Sudanese statutory law on corporal punishment, and its practice in Sudan, with a focus on whipping as its most prevalent type. Read More
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REDRESS statement on the international court of justice’s ruling that shields Germany from claims by victims of Nazi atrocities
The International Court of Justice today delivered a blow to victims of human rights violations by finding Italy in breach of international law for allowing claims for reparation against Germany to proceed. In a decision which ignores the rights of victims to reparation and adopts an absolutist approach to state… Read More
Closing the Impunity Gap: Southern Africa’s Role in Ensuring Justice for the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
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Flawed torture inquiry scrapped: need remains to establish truth of UK complicity in torture
Today, Kenneth Clarke, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, announced the close of the ill-fated Detainee Inquiry, established in response to allegations of UK complicity in the torture and ill-treatment of detainees held by foreign intelligence agencies. The reason given for the closure of the Inquiry is the commencement of new… Read More
Updated Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Implementation of its Views in the Philippines
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European Court of Human Rights finds in favour of UK/Turkish dual national tortured in Greece
ECtHR Press Release Today the European Court of Human Rights found that Greek coastguard officials tortured Necati Zontul when he was raped in detention at the port of Chania, Crete, in 2001 and ordered Greece to pay 50,000 euro (£45,000) in compensation. The judgment in Necati Zontul v. Read More