World Human Rights Day: REDRESS launches new campaign for legislation to allow torture survivors to sue their tormentors through UK courts
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War Crimes Unit: Open Letter to the French Ministry of Justice and Interior
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
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Lettre ouverte au Garde des Sceaux et au Ministre de l’Intérieur
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
Held to Account: Making the Law Work to Fight Impunity in Nepal
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
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Appeal court says inquiry process into alleged widespread army abuses in Iraq not independent enough
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