REDRESS and 66 other civil society organisations wrote to Sudan’s transitional government, urging it to urge the government to follow through on recent commitments to deepen its cooperation with the ICC by transferring former president Omar al-Bashir, Ahmed Haroun, and Abdel Raheem Muhammed Hussein to The Hague. Read More
متوفر باللغة العربية The Sudanese transitional government must show its commitment to breaking with a decades-long legacy of impunity for grave human rights violations and international crimes by swiftly facilitating the handover of Omar al-Bashir, Ahmed Haroun, and Abdel Raheem Muhammed Hussein to the International Criminal Court… Read More
This report considers the practice of enforced disappearance in Africa, exploring the contexts in which it… Read More
Press Release (12 August 2021) REDRESS welcomes today’s historic news that Sudan’s transitional government has officially joined 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) by… Read More
Press Release Following the latest breakdown of diplomatic negotiations with Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s legal team has asked the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) to intervene urgently and engage both the UK and Iran on securing her release. The request comes in anticipation of Nazanin’s appeal for… Read More
New sanctions to tackle corruption abroad are welcome, but the UK urgently needs to get serious about a more holistic approach to tackling UK money laundering of ill gotten gains if the regime is to have credibility The UK UK Anti-Corruption Coalition said: “We want the UK’s anti-corruption sanctions regime… Read More
Launched one year ago on 6 July 2020, the UK’s Global Human Rights Sanctions regime gave the UK Foreign Secretary the ability to sanction persons implicated in human rights abuses anywhere across the globe. The first anniversary of the UK Global Human Rights Sanctions regime provides an opportunity to examine… Read More
This week REDRESS made a submission for the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Republic of Lithuania. The contribution focuses on the lack of effective investigation into Lithuania’s complicity in, and facilitation of, the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) Program. Detailed analysis of publicly available evidence on the… Read More
