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
This training module gives an overview of the evidence of torture, the strategic issues when identifying and preparing torture evidence, characteristics of good pieces of evidence, conducting interviews to collect evidence and writing a witness statement. This module should be read in complementarity with Module 13: Working with Survivors of… Read More
This training module gives an overview of the legal ethics and the legal code of conduct. It also highlights the role of lawyers or NGOs with their clients, the enhanced responsibility to those representing torture survivors, and the ethical issues relating to cases against torture. Read More
This module provides an overview of the psychological aspects of working with adult and child victims of trauma in strategic litigation. It is designed to inform civil society organisations and legal practitioners who work on human rights litigation and other forms of public interest litigation involving traumas from violence such… Read More
