REDRESS is pleased to welcome Ian Martin, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, to our Board of Trustees. He has over 40 years’ experience in the field of human rights and has held senior positions with Amnesty International and the United Nations. Martin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History and… Read More
Tomorrow, the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, is an occasion to reaffirm our commitment to those who have endured horrific suffering. Since the Convention Against Torture entered into force 26 years ago on 26 June 1987, 153 States have ratified the Convention – thus accepting obligations… Read More
1 On the occasion of the opening of Protocol 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights for signature by the Council of Europe member states. Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Interights, the International… Read More
This shadow report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), for consideration of the combined 6th and 7th Report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), focuses on the issue of access to justice for women victims of sexual violence committed in the context of the… Read More
The Metropolitan Police’s arrest of five Rwandan genocide suspects in the UK on 30 May is an important step forward in the pursuit of justice for survivors of the 1994 genocide. It is now up to the UK courts to determine whether an extradition to Rwanda is in compliance with… Read More
Following four years of legal battle and faced with irrefutable evidence, the UK government has finally acknowledged for the first time today the torture and ill-treatment inflicted by the colonial administration upon thousands of prisoners during the Kenya Emergency (1952-1960). In 2009, a group of elderly Kenyan victims of torture… Read More
On 31 May, a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected Libya’s admissibility challenge in the case against Saif Al Islam Gaddafi. Gaddafi is suspected of crimes against humanity including murder and persecution, allegedly committed in Libya in 2011. Libya had challenged the admissibility the case against Gaddafi… Read More
Victims of widespread abuses in Ivory Coast still await justice as on 3 June a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) postponed deciding whether Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Ivory Coast, should be sent to trial. The Chamber found that the ICC Prosecutor had not submitted enough evidence… Read More
