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International human rights experts call for key changes to the detainee inquiry as Abdul Hakim Belhadj joins list of survivors refusing to participate

The government’s planned ‘Detainee Inquiry’ faces further harsh criticism today as seventeen distinguished international human rights experts publish an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron stating that “the powers currently given to the Inquiry are seriously deficient and that it will be unable to properly fulfil the UK’s human rights… Read More

Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Implementation of its Views in the Philippines

REDRESS made a submission to the UNHRC regarding the Philippines 'implementation of 12 individual communications.

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VRWG – Issues and Concerns Presented by the Victims’ Rights Working Group on the occasion of the 10th Session of the Assembly of States Parties

REDRESS and its partner organisations in the VRWG submitted a list of recommendations on the budget, victims strategy, guidelines for intermediaries, protection, participation, legal aid, and reparation focusing on how the recommendations aid in achieving the courts mandate.

War Crimes Unit: Open Letter to the French Ministry of Justice and Interior

We call upon the French Minister of Justice to ensure that France’s new War Crimes Unit is provided with adequate resources and support, including a sufficient number of magistrates and adapted resources, including sufficient budgetary resources to undertake the necessary investigations, particularly in the countries where the crimes were committed.  so as to be enable… Read More

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Held to Account: Making the Law Work to Fight Impunity in Nepal

The report examines how laws are used and abused to shield perpetrators from justice and to deny victims’ rights in Nepal. Five years after a peace agreement ended a decade-long armed conflict in Nepal – a conflict that saw thousands detained, disappeared, killed, raped and tortured – not one person… Read More