REDRESS and 14 other organisations have signed a joint statement welcoming the EU’s adoption of a new global human rights (Magnitsky) sanctions regime and calling for corruption or corrupt practices linked to the financing of human rights violations to be added as listing… Read More
متوفر باللغة العربية The Sudanese transitional government must show its commitment to breaking with a decades-long legacy of systemic human rights violations by ratifying the two main international human rights treaties that ban torture and enforced disappearances. In a letter to the Sudanese transitional government, over 20… Read More
This briefing note summarises the main elements of the UK global human rights (‘GHR’) sanctions regime, which was introduced on 6 July 2020, and authorises the imposition of financial and immigration sanctions on individuals in order to deter and provide accountability for involvement in certain serious human rights violations. Read More
In a joint letter to the Sudanese transitional government, over 20 civil society organisations urged the government to promptly ratify the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED). Read More
Following a series of Parliamentary Questions (and associated Freedom of Information Act requests) the Government has finally published a “Review of Complex Consular Cases” prepared by Dame Judith MacGregor in June 2019. REDRESS welcomes the findings and recommendations of the Review, and the response of the… Read More
The Brereton Report, a four-year inquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan, has found credible information related to the unlawful killing of 39 unarmed civilians or prisoners and the mistreatment of two unarmed individuals. According to the report, the unlawful killings… Read More
Register here Panel on the ‘Situation of Enforced Disappearances in Africa: Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances in Africa’ 67th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 19 November, 12:15 – 13:45 PM (GMT) Today, the Working Group on Death Penalty, Extrajudicial,… Read More
REDRESS has made a submission to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office seeking the imposition of sanctions on senior Chinese officials in response to human rights violations in Xinjiang, China. The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 give the UK Foreign Secretary the power to… Read More