Today, a coalition of international and Egyptian NGOs has submitted a detailed legal analysis to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that the Egyptian authorities’ use of torture is so widespread and systematic as to amount to a crime against humanity under customary international law. The legal analysis forms the… Read More
Читати українською By Victoria Kerr REDRESS Consultant Legal Officer Vast violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law including forced displacement, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, have been reported during Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, the conflict in… Read More
The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, and five United Nations Special Rapporteurs have written to Unilever Plc, expressing their deep concern about the lack of access to justice and an effective remedy provided by Unilever to a group of (former) Unilever workers who were brutally assaulted… Read More
In a unanimous Chamber judgment on 12 September 2023, the European Court of Human Rights found that, in 2017, Maksim Grigoryevich Lapunov – an openly gay Russian man – had been seized in public by police in Chechnya, held incommunicado and tortured… Read More
READ THE REPORT ملخص التقرير باللغة العربية As atrocities continue to be committed daily in Sudan, and with mounting evidence implicating both warring sides in serious human rights abuses, a new REDRESS report calls on the international community to hold perpetrators accountable, to… Read More
The report sets out the context of the armed conflict in Sudan, the overarching legal framework that applies during the armed conflict, prima facie evidence of legal violations committed by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces and accountability avenues or measures for these alleged violations and some… Read More
This report summary highlights the key findings and recommendations of our report “Ruining A Country, Devastating Its People: Accountability for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Sudan since 15 April 2023”. The report sets out the context of the armed conflict, the overarching legal framework that… Read More
By Chris Esdaile, Legal Advisor Follow Chris on Twitter @ChrisEsdaile “I’m not asking for anything out of the ordinary, just that justice is done, because I know that justice is powerful – I know the power of justice”, said REDRESS… Read More