A new report released by African Rights and REDRESS on the eve of the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, offers new insights which bring into question the meaning of justice after genocide. ‘Survivors and Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: Their Experiences, Perspectives and Hopes’, based… Read More
REDRESS welcomes the release, yesterday evening, of human rights activist Mr Osman Hummaida from arbitrary detention by the Sudanese authorities. Osman Hummaida had been held in incommunicado detention since his arrest by the Sudanese National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) on 24th November. He was interrogated about his human rights… Read More
Yesterday, a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its decision to grant unconditional release to Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Lubanga, the leader of the UPC (Union des patriotes congolais) has been accused of war crimes, specifically enlisting and conscripting child soldiers and using them to participate actively in… Read More
Sudanese and international human rights organisations today expressed their concern that the Police Forces Act adopted by parliament on the 16th of June is incompatible with the Sudanese Bill of Rights and Sudan’s obligations under international law. The Khartoum Centre for Human Rights and Environmental Development (KCHRED) and international human… Read More
REDRESS, the international human rights organisation with a mandate to help torture survivors obtain justice, welcomes the Government’s announcement today that there will be an independent Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, the torture and ill treatment of his nine hotel colleagues and how the five techniques banned in… Read More
The long-awaited signing of the Juba Peace Agreement between the Government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) has been delayed yet again, with LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony asking for further discussions at the eleventh hour. In response, the Uganda Victims Rights’ Working Group (U-VRWG) has today released… Read More
A very large number of the men and women who planned, incited, orchestrated and implemented a policy of massacres in Rwanda in 1994 continue to live freely in Europe, said African Rights and REDRESS on the 14th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsi minority. In the last year, 6… Read More
The Redress Trust (REDRESS), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), with headquarters in Belgium, welcome the landmark ruling of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to allow victims of the Khmer Rouge atrocities to participate in the Courts… Read More