Dadimos Haile, a former Ethiopian High Court judge, has been appointed interim director of REDRESS, an organization which helps torture survivors seek justice. He will take up the role on 1 October 2012 on a 9-month secondment. Haile will be covering for Carla Ferstman, REDRESS’ permanent director, who has received… Read More
Today the International Criminal Court in The Hague begins hearing closing arguments in the case against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the first case to reach this stage at the ICC.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has again found the government of Nepal responsible for the disappearance and torture of one of its citizens, and called on it to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. And, in a first for such a case, as part of the remedy awarded, Nepal’s government… Read More
leer en español Trial Chamber I established, for the first time in the ICC’s history, the principles that are to be applied to providing reparations for victims in the Lubanga case. [1] On 14 March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was found guilty of the war crimes… Read More
Today, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered a landmark decision on reparations. The decision outlines the principles to be applied in relation to reparation for victims in the case of Thomas Lubanga, who was found guilty in March of the war crimes of enlisting and using… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the recommendation in the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) report released today that the UK needs to place democratic values at the heart of its response to the Arab Spring. In its report British Foreign Policy and the ‘Arab Spring’, the FAC examined in particular the dramatic developments in… Read More
Today we celebrate International Justice Day as 14 years ago on this date the Rome Statute was adopted, establishing the International Criminal Court, the world’s first permanent international court to prosecute the worst crimes in international law. The last two decades have witnessed historic achievements in international criminal justice. This… Read More
Crucial hearings began today in the High Court on time limitation periods applicable in the landmark case brought by Kenyan victims of alleged torture during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s. The British Government is arguing that the claims are time-barred and should be struck out, but the… Read More