⚖️ When justice is delayed, rights are at risk.
Angolan human rights lawyer & REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award recipient Osvaldo de Almeida highlights how systemic delays in judicial hearings undermine fair trial rights & can increase the risk of ill-treatment for people deprived of liberty.
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REDRESS is pleased to support the recommendations in the #clean&green manifesto on how the UK’s anti-corruption efforts can help tackle environmental harm.
Read it 👇
www.spotlightcorruption.org?post_type=re...
The Group of Independent Experts on Belarus will discuss their latest report to the Human Rights Council with UN Member States and stakeholders at 3 pm CET.
The report builds on over 400 interviews, painting a stark picture of the situation in Belarus.
Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k15...
🎙️“Being a human rights lawyer in Mexico means working under constant risk.” - Roberta Cortés Ruiz
#InnovativeLawyersAwardee Roberta Cortés Ruiz continues to fight torture, support LGBTIQ+ people deprived of liberty, and centre survivors in the struggle for justice.
#UnitedAgainstTorture
🎥Watch:
🇸🇩 Sudan
Women-led monitoring networks are documenting violations amid ongoing conflict.
Local monitors have recorded 1,200+ abuses, including conflict-related sexual violence, and submitted evidence to UN and African human rights mechanisms to support future accountability.
🇲🇽 Mexico
IDHEAS works with families of the disappeared to pursue accountability.
Strategic litigation and international advocacy are strengthening victim participation, recognising gendered harms of disappearance, and advancing access to justice and reparations.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
The Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research supports Tamil-speaking women seeking truth about enforced disappearances.
Through advocacy training and trauma-informed support, survivors engage in documenting mass graves and shaping more inclusive transitional justice processes.
Across the world, local organisations are advancing gender justice amid conflict, disappearances, and shrinking civic space.
For International Women’s Day, we're highlighting work by grantees supported by the Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI), a consortium we are proud to be part of.
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“The ICC is a tool that’s name alone has the potential to save lives.”
Last year, we spoke with five survivors of human rights abuses and asked them what the International Criminal Court means to them.
Here’s what they shared 👇
Our new briefing explores how civil society organisations can strengthen efforts to identify, monitor, and track suspects of international crimes — and how States, institutions, and donors can better support this work.
Read it here: redress.org/publication/...
Suspects of international crimes continue to evade arrest when crossing borders due to gaps in information, coordination, and capacity.
So what can civil society do to ensure accountability for the world’s most serious crimes?
#Egypt is renewing its National Human Rights Strategy. The previous record warrants caution.
UN bodies continue to document torture, impunity, and excessive pre-trial detention.
Read the full statement ⬇️
dignity.dk/en/news/joint-statement-on-the-renewal-of-egypts-national-human-rights-strategy/
💻WEBINAR: Advancing Accountability for Torture in the Context of Protests
Across the world, protesters face excessive force, torture, and other ill-treatment, often outside detention settings and with little accountability. How can these violations be documented, and what pathways to justice exist?
The first UN Preparatory Committee on a Crimes against Humanity Convention marks a promising step.
GIAI welcomes states' commitment to inclusive civil society participation to ensure a survivor-centred & effective convention.
🔗 Full statement: redress.org/news/a-promi...
#CAHTreatyNow
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This development reflects recommendations made by REDRESS and our Global Initiative Against Impunity partners: redress.org/publication/...
The EU institutions agreed that the revised Directive will:
🔸Explicitly mention victims of core international crimes;
🔸Recognise that they require specialised, integrated support;
🔸Strengthen provisions on communication, access to legal aid, and compensation.
🙌 A legislative win for survivors!
The European Parliament, Council, and the European Commission have now explicitly recognised victims of core international crimes in the revised Victims’ Rights Directive.
This is a meaningful step toward a more inclusive, survivor-centred approach to justice.
🎥 Challenging torture and impunity in #Egypt.
Mohamed Lotfy of ECRF explains how torture is used to silence dissent, often without accountability. With UATC support, ECRF documents abuses, provides legal aid to victims, and helps victims begin their recovery.
#UnitedAgainstTorture
📣 ICYMI: Our episode on survivors' hopes and struggles with the ICC is out!
How can it feel to "put a name to the things the government did to you"? Luis Carlos Díaz, a journalist and survivor from Venezuela, tells us about his experience and his engagement with the International Criminal Court.
Listen here: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
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A global Convention on crimes against humanity is finally moving forward.
After years of advocacy by civil society and human rights organisations, this January governments are beginning to prepare for negotiations.
www.fidh.org/en/issues/in...
#Rohingya survivors will join survivors from Bosnia, Iraq, Sudan, and Palestine to reflect on what justice must deliver for those most affected.
Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
📍 The Hague | 30 Jan 2026
With support from EU.
Survivor participation is essential to accountability and international justice. At the conclusion of the @CIJ_ICJ’s merits hearings in The Gambia v. Myanmar, @legalactionww.bsky.social and REDRESS will convene "Surviving Genocide – Truth, Trauma and Trial", a survivors’ dialogue in The Hague.
🙏 With thanks to our Global Initiative Against Impunity Partners and @glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social for supporting the briefing @trialinternational.bsky.social , @ecchr.bsky.social , @4genderjustice.org
Survivors must be at the heart of a future Convention on Crimes Against Humanity. Read our briefing to learn more: redress.org/publication/...
Our new policy brief with @fidh-official.bsky.social sets out concrete recommendations to centre victims’ rights, including:
⚖️ Clear definition of victims
⚖️ Rights to participate & access information
⚖️ Protection against intimidation & retaliation
⚖️ Access to truth & reparation
As states negotiate a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity, a critical question remains:
Will it deliver justice for victims and survivors? 🕊️
OUT NOW 🎙️
How do survivors see the International Criminal Court?
At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
