The undersigned organizations provisionally welcome the Egyptian government’s announcement regarding the development of a new National Human Rights Strategy, while underscoring the shortcomings and failings of the previous Strategy. In its announcement, Egypt’s Technical Secretariat of the Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights (SSCHR) referred to the “notable progress achieved… Read More
Edgar Kaiser is a human rights lawyer from India and a recipient of REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award. He works with People’s Watch, an organisation dedicated to combating injustice and discrimination across India. Edgar spoke to us about the challenges faced by human rights defenders, and the deep structural inequalities that… Read More
This briefing contains the key recommendations from REDRESS’s June 2025 report Torture Normalised: State Violence in India, accompanied by commentary on instances where these same recommendations have been raised in international fora, yet have failed to elicit meaningful action from the Indian government. Read More
To mark four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, REDRESS and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Magnitsky Sanctions and Reparation hosted an exhibition and panel discussion at the UK Parliament on 24 February 2026. The event highlighted what reparation would mean for survivors and how asset recovery could be used to fund reparation… Read More
This guidance document explores how civil society can play a stronger role in helping authorities locate and apprehend suspects of serious international crimes. It outlines the institutional framework, the role and methods of CSOs, the challenges they face, and practical measures to strengthen their capacity to provide timely, reliable information… Read More
Across the world, LGBTIQ+ persons are subjected to torture and ill-treatment because of who they are or who they are perceived to be. Abuse occurs in police custody, prisons, healthcare settings, public assemblies, and communities. It includes arbitrary arrests, ‘corrective’ rape and other sexual abuse, forced medical examinations, beatings, and humiliation – often carried out by State authorities or by non-state… Read More
By Anastasiia Holovnenko, Advocacy Campaigns Lead at the Center for Civil Liberties For Western readers, Ukraine is often framed as a foreign war. In reality, its costs for other countries are already felt in energy bills, migration pressures, defence budgets, and the erosion of the rules meant to prevent wars like this in… Read More
READ THE BRIEFING During the July–August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, widespread and systematic human rights violations were committed against civilians. The government of Sheikh Hasina and allied groups were responsible for various human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, torture, serious injuries, and sexual violence. Despite the… Read More
