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
REDRESS made a submission to the UNHRC regarding the Philippines 'implementation of 12 individual communications.
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.
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
Avis aux médias: Lettre ouverte au Garde des Sceaux et au Ministre de l’Intérieur Lettre ouverte au Garde des Sceaux et au Ministre de l’Intérieur Monsieur Michel Mercier Garde des Sceaux, Ministre de la Justice et des Libertés 13, place Vendôme 75001 Paris Monsieur Claude… Read More
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
The Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) which the UK Government set up last year to investigate allegations that more than 120 Iraqi civilians were abused by British soldiers lacks the requisite independence, the Court of Appeal said today, giving judgment in the case of Ali Zaki Mousa and Others v The Secretary… Read More
