The Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) marks this year’s EU Day Against Impunity with grave concern, as international justice and accountability face escalating threats and direct attacks. Armed conflicts, state violence, and mass atrocities are on the rise across the globe, while many governments and international institutions… Read More
Today, five judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously rejected the appeal of former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen against the Reparations Order issued by the ICC Trial Chamber on 28 February 2024 in the case against him. Following Ongwen’s conviction of 61 counts of crimes against humanity… Read More
By Julie Bardèche, Senior Legal Advisor READ OUR 2024 ANNUAL REVIEW In recent years, as part of a multi-country study led by the Global Survivors Fund, REDRESS has been examining the prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence in Chad, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh and the main obstacles… Read More
Today, REDRESS, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF), Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies at Gulu University launched a briefing paper that examines the Reparations Order issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in… Read More
By Isabelle Terranova, REDRESS Legal Fellow READ THE QUARTELY UPDATE Since 23 January 2024, the UK Government has imposed 16 targeted sanction packages to oppose transnational repression and democratic interference on UK soil… Read More
By Renata Politi, REDRESS’ Legal Advisor @PolitiRenata During Nepal’s internal armed conflict, Purna Maya (not her real name) was abducted from her home, arbitrarily detained, beaten and subjected to multiple rapes by Nepalese soldiers in 2004. Similarly, Safia Ishaq Mohammed Issa, a… Read More
With the delivery of the largest reparation order ever issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Dominic Ongwen case today, thousands of victims of his crimes in northern Uganda get closer to obtaining reparation for the harm they have suffered. As human rights organisations who submitted… Read More
Safia Ishaq Mohammed Issa was arbitrarily arrested and detained, beaten and gang raped by Sudanese State agents in 2011 after participating in pro-democracy youth rallies as a student in Khartoum, Sudan. Safia’s case highlights continued concerns of arbitrary arrests and sexual and gender-based violence (“SGBV”) against women, protestors, and… Read More
