WHO WE ARE
REDRESS is an international human rights organisation that delivers justice and reparation for survivors of
torture, challenges impunity for perpetrators, and advocates for legal and policy reforms to combat torture.
Our cases respond to torture as an individual crime in domestic and international law, as a civil wrong with
individual responsibility, and as a human rights violation with state responsibility.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REDRESS would like to express its gratitude for the contribution of various individuals and organizations to this
report. In particular, we would like to thank the law firm Linklaters for providing invaluable pro bono support
on research, drafting and editing of the report. Additionally, we thank international experts Gabriela Citroni,
Houria Es-Slami and the late Christof Heyns for their kind review of early drafts of this report. We further thank
our partners, Lawyers for Justice in Libya, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the African Center for Justice
and Peace Studies, and the MENA Rights Group, for their important input in exploring the scope of enforced
disappearances in Libya, Zimbabwe, Sudan and Algeria. We are grateful for the support of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in co-organising various working meetings and events that informed some
of the views contained in this report, as well as for the collaboration of regional and international experts on
the subject. Finally, we thank the numerous victims of enforced disappearance who attended victims’ forums
in the four mentioned countries and who shared their experiences and views, which we have strived to reflect
in the report. REDRESS bears sole responsibility for any errors contained in this report.