UN experts and independent civil society organisations, including partners in the United Against Torture Consortium, are examining credible evidence that Iranian security forces used indiscriminate and excessive force during recent protests, violating the right to life and potentially amounting to torture and other ill-treatment. While the internet shutdown in… Read More
READ THE BRIEFING At their best, targeted sanctions are a powerful tool to protect people, uphold international law, and affirm the rights and dignity of those harmed by grave abuses. With a small but vital change to the law, the UK Government can ensure that sanctions enforcement… Read More
UK law provides only a narrow basis for using the proceeds of confiscated criminal assets to compensate victims. Victims are rarely allocated any share of the sums recovered, except in “clear and simple cases”. This briefing outlines REDRESS’ support for amending the Crime and Policing Bill to empower courts to… Read More
CASE BACKGROUND The armed conflict between the Communist Party (so called Maoist groups) and the government in Nepal took place between 1996 and 2006. During the conflict, human rights violations against the civilian population were commonplace, including torture, deprivation of life, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest, massacres, and sexual violence. The conflict resulted in the deaths of 17,000 people and the internal displacement of… Read More
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has reaffirmed a fundamental principle in the case of S.A. v. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): States have a binding obligation to enforce reparation awards for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). The decision was adopted during… Read More
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ordered Venezuela to pay compensation to the family of S.L., a UK national who died in custody in 2001, and to adopt structural reforms to protect the health and lives of women in detention, especially those with chronic and mental-health conditions. The… Read More
A cross-party group of MPs has challenged the UK Government to close the growing gap between the promise and practice of the UK’s Magnitsky-style sanctions regime, which is intended to target individuals and entities responsible for human rights abuses and corruption. The debate highlighted how as human rights violations and grand corruption continue to escalate around the world, gaps in the Government’s sanctions policy risks undermining… Read More
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and REDRESS welcome an important decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), which found that Egypt’s use of forced genital examinations (also known as “virginity tests”) on two women pro-democracy protesters in 2011 constituted degrading, inhumane and torturous… Read More
