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Saira Rahman Khan, Acting Secretary of Odhikar, recounts the events of the crackdown on the “Bangla-Blockade” protests and shares her hopes for a new Bangladesh.  

By Rupert Skilbeck, REDRESS Director READ OUR 2024 ANNUAL REVIEW Britain has been at the forefront of countries in denouncing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and calling for accountability. But would a Russian general who has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine be arrested and put on… Read More

REDRESS and Eritrea Focus have made a submission to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office seeking the imposition of Magnitsky sanctions on senior Eritrean officials and State-owned entities in response to human rights violations in Eritrea and the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Magnitsky sanctions, first introduced by the… Read More

The REDRESS Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance of the organisation and has adopted a number of policies and codes of practice, which are set out below. In keeping with our commitment to transparency, we share our core policies in order to assist other organisations developing their… Read More

This Annual Review highlights the activities and achievements of REDRESS from April 2023 to March 2024. We drew attention to the systemic use of torture in Egypt, advocated for accountability in Sudan amidst the ongoing armed conflict, and campaigned for repurposing frozen assets of human rights abusers as reparation… Read More

by Peace Brenda Amito, REDRESS Consultant READ THE BRIEFING Despite being a signatory to numerous international and regional human rights treaties, Egypt has systematically used torture as a tool to repress human rights defenders, political activists, marginalised communities such as LGBTIQ+ persons and others. The systemic… Read More

Torture is a widespread and systematic practice in Egypt arguably amounting to a crime against humanity under customary international law and Article 7 of the Rome Statute. At the regional level, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, has confirmed in four cases that torture occurs in Egypt. Focusing… Read More

In March 2022, Roman Abramovich promised to sell Chelsea Football Club and donate the £2.5 billion to support victims of the war in Ukraine, nearly 7 times the value of humanitarian assistance provided by the UK to Ukraine so far. However, two years on, the sale has hit a… Read More