A letter to the Minister of State on behalf of Human Rights First President and CEO Susan Hendrickson and REDRESS Director Rupert Skilbeck recommending that the United Kingdom build on existing leadership in the use of targeted human rights and anticorruption sanctions, in light of growing concerns that the new… Read More
This Practice Note aims to provide practical guidance on how to construct a reparation complaint for submission to international and regional human rights mechanisms, along with strategies for implementing their reparation decisions. It includes commentary on each mechanism, outlines legal procedures, and includes examples of measures of reparation awarded. Read More
In a report on the crime of hostage-taking, presented to the UN Human Rights Council on 4 March, Dr Alice Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, echoes REDRESS’s long-standing position that hostage-taking can often amount to torture. “Hostage-taking is cruelty – plain… Read More
Omega’s Call for Proposals under the United Against Torture (UAT) consortium project Omega Research Foundation has launched its call for proposals for projects to reduce the unlawful use of force by police or other state officials and advance related human rights-based police reforms. This funding will be used to support… Read More
British human rights activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been cleared of all charges in a case in Punjab, after a court dismissed the accusations made by Indian authorities, finding that the prosecution had failed to provide credible evidence linking him to a terrorist conspiracy. Despite his acquittal, Jagtar, who has… Read More
The European Union’s (EU) strategy on victims’ rights (2020-2025), adopted by the European Commission, seeks to improve access to justice for all victims of crime. Following the adoption of the strategy, the Commission was tasked with assessing whether a revision of the EU Directive 2012/29/EU was necessary. This initiated the… Read More
This is the sixth blog in a series featuring legal representatives and experts in the field of strategic litigation against torture, discussing the strategic impact of cases catalogued in Casebook 1. In this blog post, Elba Bendo, Lawyer at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), examines the most strategic… Read More
This briefing by the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB) explains what the Lithuania’s referral of the situation in Belarus to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about, and describes the procedure and ensuing examination by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC. It also sets out what States… Read More
