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
REDRESS press release discusses the recent decision by the ECHR which further confirmed countries will not be permitted to deport those who face risk of torture upon arrival in their home nation.
Today, the UK Government admitted that the United States used Diego Garcia in its “extraordinary renditions” programme in 2002. This is a dramatic shift for the Government, which had previously said that “careful research by officials has been unable to identify any occasion since 11 September 2001, or earlier in… Read More
REDRESS press release discusses the acceptance by French Courts to hear the cases of Rwanda genocide survivors, following the acceptance of a request by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
With the third DRC war crimes suspect now at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the ICC Prosecutor has signaled that his work in Ituri is done. According to the Prosecutor, the arrest of Mathieu Ngudjolo now closes the first phase of investigations in the DRC. He is… Read More