REDRESS made these observations to the Board of the Trust Fund for Victims in light of the International Criminal Court’s first decision on reparations in the case of The Prosecutor v Thomas Lubanga, rendered on 7 August 2012. The observations focus on the Trust Fund’s mandate in relation to reparation,… Read More
This report was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in March 2013. It concludes that measures taken by Peru to prevent and combat torture have been inadequate. This includes the lack of a national registry of complaints for acts of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, the… Read More
Mutabar Tadjibayeva, one of Uzbekistan’s best known human rights defenders, has filed an important complaint against Uzbekistan for her brutal torture and forced sterilisation when she was serving an eight-year prison sentence for her human rights activities in 2005-2008. International human rights organisations FIDH and REDRESS recently filed the complaint… Read More
Credible sources in Sudan have reported that government doctors amputated a man’s right hand and left foot by court order in Khartoum on February 14, 2013, in violation of the absolute prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishments, four human rights groups said today. The African Centre for… Read More
REDRESS is pleased to welcome Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sir Nigel Rodley and Professor Manfred Nowak as Patrons. REDRESS’ Patrons play an invaluable role in raising the profile of our work on behalf of torture survivors globally by lending us their public images and helping us expand our network of friends… Read More
REDRESS and Survivors Fund welcome today’s verdict in the case of Sadi Bugingo, accused of planning and supervising the murder of about 2,000 people during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda and the first person to be tried in Norway for the Genocide. A court in Norway sentenced him to 21… Read More
Women and girls victims of human rights violations continue to face numerous challenges in accessing justice. REDRESS and the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn for Africa (SIHA) recently made a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to draw attention to the… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the UK’s decision to prosecute a Nepali colonel suspected of torturing two men in Nepal in 2005, during the decade-long civil war. He was arrested in East Sussex last week and subsequently charged. Colonel Kumar Lama is facing trial in the UK under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Read More
