Our Annual Review 2020 sets out what REDRESS achieved from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020. Our work was truly international, spanning five continents and over 40 countries. Amongst our many successes, we secured a landmark judgment at the Inter-American Court of… Read More
17 NOVEMBER 2020, 1 PM – 2 PM (GMT) Simultaneous translation: French, English, Arabic. Register here Join a conversation on transitional justice in Sudan on a side event on the margins of the 67th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The 2018… Read More
Listen to the podcast Are amnesties for human rights violations ever acceptable? Tomorrow, Libya Matters, the podcast produced by the team at Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), will explore this question with our… Read More
On this day three years ago, Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen from Dumbarton, was hooded and seized from the streets of Punjab by Indian plain-clothes police officers. He asserts he was then severely tortured while in detention. Jagtar alleges that electric shocks were administered to his ears, nipples and… Read More
REDRESS and over 20 other Afghan, Australian and international human rights and legal organisations have written to the Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, Major General Justice Paul Brereton, urging him to commit to releasing the report of the Inquiry into allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL)… Read More
REDRESS and over 20 other Afghan, Australian and international human rights organisations wrote to the Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, Major General Justice Paul Brereton, urging him to commit to releasing the report of the Inquiry into allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL) by Australian special… Read More
Iranian authorities on Tuesday 27 October 2020 summoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to court on Monday 2 November 2020, for a delayed hearing in a second court case against her. Nazanin has also been informed that following the hearing she is likely to return to prison, which would bring an end to… Read More
This Report examines the extent to which the specialised units within the EU that investigate and prosecute serious international crimes uphold EU standards on victims’ rights. It is based on research conducted between 2019 and 2020, including approximately 140 interviews with practitioners and policy makers in five Member States—Belgium, France,… Read More