REDRESS and others collectively submitted comments to ensure the success of David Cameron's initiative to open an inquiry regarding the UK's involvement in the mistreatment of detainees held abroad.
REDRESS has submitted comments regarding the development of anti-torture laws in Nepal given their recommendations by the UN Rapporteur on torture.
This report formed the basis of a September 2010 workshop organised by the Essex Transitional Justice Network and Redress, which brought together a multidisciplinary group of experts to discuss the existing and evolving approaches to the rehabilitation of victims of gross human rights violations. Participants were encouraged to establish multidisciplinary dialogues, between… Read More
REDRESS and Victims Rights Working Group (VRWG) members across the world are celebrating International Justice Day this 17 July, commemorating the adoption of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998. The ICC is important to victims as the first permanent and independent international justice institution tasked with ending… Read More
REDRESS, the international human rights organisation with a mandate to help torture survivors obtain justice, acknowledges the significance of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement to Parliament yesterday of the creation of a judge-led inquiry into whether the UK government and its intelligence agencies were implicated in the improper treatment of detainees abroad that… Read More
26 June 2010 marks 23 years since the United Nations’ Convention against Torture came into force. 146 States have joined up to this landmark Convention, undertaking to prevent, prosecute and provide reparations for torture and end impunity for one of the worst crimes known to mankind. Today, we express our grave concern about the prevalence of torture and other prohibited ill-treatment, the lack of investigation, prosecution and punishment of such crimes. Today we show our solidarity with victims of torture her in Cambodia and around the world. Cambodia acceded to the… Read More
London/Kigali/Johannesburg, African Rights, REDRESS and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre have sent a confidential report to President Rupiah Banda of Zambia detailing the names and roles of 16 key suspects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda who are believed to be living in Zambia. The report follows a visit of President… Read More
A new Israeli Bill entitled ‘Associations (Amutot) Law (Amendment – Exceptions to the Registration and Activity of an Association), 2010′ proposes to prohibit the registration or close down any existing non-governmental organisation, if “there are reasonable grounds to conclude that the association is providing information to foreign entities or is involved… Read More