On 8 September 2025, widespread protests erupted across Nepal, marking the most significant unrest in decades. The demonstrations were primarily youth-led, dubbed the ‘Gen Z’ movement, and included children among the participants. Demonstrators took to the streets in response to the government’s ban on 26 major social media platforms, including… Read More
This is the seventh 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, Kiri Van Lengen-Welty, Interim Lead Lawyer of the Africa Death Penalty Team at Reprieve,… Read More
A joint statement by United Against Torture Consortium (UATC) – REDRESS, FIACAT, APT, IRCT, OMCT, Omega Research Foundation – together with AFIA MAMA and our partners from Congolese civil society, delivered to the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights… Read More
READ THE REPORT Sri Lanka has systematically shielded the killers of journalists over a quarter of a century, says a new report focusing on the failures of the police investigation into the October 2000 assassination of BBC Jaffna reporter, Nimalarajan Mylvaganam. At least 44 journalists and media… Read More
In October 2000, BBC journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam was assassinated in his home in Jaffna, one of the earliest targeted killings of a Tamil journalist during Sri Lanka’s civil war. His murder became a symbol of the deadly cost of reporting amid ethnic conflict and state-sponsored violence, and of… Read More
READ THE PRESS RELEASE IN ENGLISH LEA EL INFORME Desnudez forzada, violación, requisas invasivas, acoso sexual, tocamientos inapropiados, violaciones anales y vaginales con objetos, insultos sexistas y homofóbicos: estos no son hechos aislados, sino parte de un patrón creciente y alarmante en América Latina. Read More
LEE EL COMUNICADO DE PRENSA EN ESPAÑOL READ THE REPORT Forced nudity, rape, invasive searches, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching, anal and vaginal rape with objects, sexist and homophobic insults — these are not isolated incidents but part of a growing and alarming pattern in… Read More
This report published by REDRESS, the Academy on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), and the Latin American Network for Gender-Based Strategic Litigation (ReLeG), exposes how sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has been systematically used as a tool of political and social… Read More