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
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
This Paper – written on behalf of the Project for Criminal Law Reform in Sudan – forms part of broader efforts by Sudanese civil society to raise awareness about the repressive nature of Sudanese public order law. This campaign advocates for a repeal or amendment of provisions incompatible with applicable national and international… Read More
leer en español Leading LGTB organisations from Peru will testify in a special hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. on Friday 28 October, to present evidence about the discrimination and violence that lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders in the Americas continue to suffer. The… Read More
REDRESS' report summarises the conference held on 'gender dimension of torture'
