REDRESS is a human rights organisation which works to combat torture by seeking justice and reparation for torture survivors. Redress takes legal challenges on behalf of survivors, works to ensure that torturers are punished and that governments uphold the absolute prohibition on torture. For further information regarding Redress, please visit www.redress.org.

Thanks to Humanade’s support, REDRESS has been able to help more torture survivors in the UK than ever before to seek justice and reparations for the harm they suffered. This is a survivor’s right and a vital step in their recovery process. It also ensures that those responsible for their torture are brought to justice. Humanade’s grant has supported an expert Legal Casework Adviser to provide dedicated assistance to over 47 survivors in the UK. This is specialised work, requiring sensitivity to a survivor’s needs, as well as in-depth knowledge of complex legal processes.

With Humanade’s support, REDRESS is helping a UK citizen tortured in the Philippines to obtain justice. We are assisting a lady in the UK whose father was summarily executed in Sudan to find out where he is buried. We are supporting a Rwandan lady now in the UK whose family were killed in the genocide to submit evidence in Rwanda. We are helping a British man, ill-treated in Japan, to seek reparation. These are just a few examples of the many torture survivors supported by REDRESS over the past year.