By Charlie Loudon, International Legal Adviser at REDRESS. *This op-ed was originally published on The Huffington Post here. The UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced a decision to grant diplomatic protection to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Nazanin is a British-Iranian mother who has been unlawfully… Read More
By Valérie Paulet, TRIAL International Project Coordinator; Noemi Manco, TRIAL International Communications Officer * Read UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION ANNUAL REVIEW 2019 Mass crimes, remote locations, protection of victims and witnesses, procedural obstacles, outreach. Those are just some of the challenges inherent to universal jurisdiction cases. From gathering evidence to… Read More
By Rupert Skilbeck, Director of REDRESS Human rights litigation can be used on behalf of an individual survivor of torture to hold governments to account before national courts, the regional human rights systems, and the UN Treaty Bodies. Criminal law can be used to punish individual perpetrators for torture on… Read More