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
This submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Chad, presented by REDRESS, the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, focuses on one issue: the Chadian government’s failure to make reparations to victims of Hissène Habré-era abuses despite its legal obligations and a… Read More
This guide, authored by REDRESS and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), aims to assist practitioners gather evidence of conflict and atrocity-related sexual violence in Myanmar. It complements the second edition of the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, which was published in March… Read More
This guide, authored by REDRESS and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), aims to assist practitioners gather evidence of conflict and atrocity-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka. It complements the second edition of the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict which was published in March… Read More
REDRESS and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) have today launched a series of country-focused supplements to the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict for Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Iraq. The supplements complement the second edition of the International Protocol on the Documentation… Read More
Sexual violence is a prominent and well-publicised aspect of the ethnic cleansing committed in Northern Iraq by Da’esh since 2014, including the creation of a complex system of slavery that includes rape, forced marriage and sexual violence. However, as elsewhere, conflict and atrocity-related sexual violence is not a new phenomenon… Read More