This factsheet provides an overview of the achievements and impact of the Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) from 2023 to 2025 across its priority areas, including victims’ rights and participation, immunity and non-cooperation, universal jurisdiction, gender justice, and upholding and strengthening international justice. The Global Initiative Against Impunity: Making Justice… Read More
By Matthew Hedges, Member of the Survivor Advisory Group Established in 2022, the Survivor Advisory Group is a survivor-led body that empowers and supports survivors to lead initiatives confronting torture. We are a diverse group of torture survivors from Bahrain, Chad, DRC, Iran, UK, and Zimbabwe. Despite our differences… Read More
By Bhubaneswari Swain, ILA Awardee Bhubaneswari Swain is an Indian human rights lawyer and winner of the REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Awards. She is an activist with Safe Odisha For Her, an initiative that seeks to transform a village into a model violence-free community by addressing deeply rooted caste- and gender-based violence. Through her work, she leads campaigns promoting the rights… Read More
By Ana Cutts Dougherty, Consultant Lawyer At a critical moment for the design of reparation for Ukraine, survivor voices helped shape the conversation in The Hague (Netherlands) around what an effective, accessible, and credible international compensation process must deliver in practice. The discussion brought survivor-activists into direct dialogue with… Read More
In this fact sheet, the United Against Torture Consortium members – IRCT, FIACAT, Omega, OMCT, and REDRESS – together with Change Africa Trust, the Center for Strategic Litigation, and the Pan African LawyersUnion, call on United Nations Member States participating in the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) fourth-cycle Universal Periodic Review… Read More
Location: London (hybrid working) Hours: 3 days a week, with flexible working available. Salary: £23,299 actual salary (£38,831 FTE) B1 on REDRESS’ salary scales. Term: fixed term 12 months (maternity leave cover) Closing Date: 31 July 2026. REDRESS is looking to appoint an Advocacy Officer to deliver our work on… Read More
Read our Impact Report Read our 26 June Newsletter On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the United Against Torture Consortium (UATC), together with the European External Action Service (EEAS), will reaffirm its shared commitment to combating torture and other… Read More
This Q&A has been prepared jointly by the International Federation for Human Rights, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, Center for Truth & Justice, Global Justice Center, REDRESS, and Synergy for Justice. The aim is to provide accessible details, clarify misconceptions, and highlight important considerations on the external investigation into alleged… Read More