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
This report provides a review of laws, practices and patterns of torture, examining the availability and effectiveness of safeguards, accountability mechanisms and avenues to obtain reparation for torture in several countries of the Americas region, including Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica,… Read More
This submission is in response to the Foreign Affairs Committee’s invitation for submissions of evidence in respect of its inquiry announced on 17 April 2013 into “Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report”. REDRESS’s submission addresses two issues in particular: the FCO’s efforts to strengthen the ability… Read More
REDRESS is pleased to welcome as a Patron distinguished former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Canadian Supreme Court justice and a passionate advocate of human rights, Mme Louise Arbour. Mme Arbour has had an illustrious career devoted to promoting the principles of justice and universal human rights. She was… Read More
