About the Innovative Lawyers Awards REDRESS’s Innovative Lawyers Awards, granted under the umbrella of the United Against Torture Consortium, encourage and empower a new generation of lawyers in the anti-torture movement to challenge the use of torture in their communities. The aim of the awards is to recognise the vital… Read More
Professor Lutz Oette, one of the interveners in the Gäfgen in the Gäfgen v. Germany (2010) case, describes the features of the case.
This Practice Note aims to provide guidance on the practical aspects of building compensation claims on behalf of torture survivors. It is focused primarily on litigation before regional and international human rights bodies, although it may also be useful to claims brought before national courts and other bodies. Read More
By Natalia Kubesch, Legal Officer READ OUR 2024 ANNUAL REVIEW Despite efforts to hold individuals accused of human rights abuses accountable, many high-profile perpetrators continue to enjoy impunity. The UK, in particular, has gained an unsavoury reputation for being vulnerable to the flow of corrupt money—even… Read More
By Andrew Lane, REDRESS Legal Assistant Read our latest sanctions quarterly update Between 9 May 2024 and 4 November 2024, the UK used its targeted sanctions regimes to respond to the invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in… Read More
This briefing provides an overview of recent developments in the UK’s use of targeted sanctions between 9 May 2024 and 6 November 2024. Read More
In this Fact sheet, REDRESS and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) call on States participating in the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt to recommend that Egypt put an end to torture and ill-treatment and ensure accountability and access to an effective… Read More
Velasquez Rodriguez has remained the most widely cited of the Inter-American Court’s decisions and its pronouncements regarding State obligations in the face of the most serious human rights violations has been reaffirmed numerous times in the almost four decades that have followed.
