The REDRESS Team
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Staff
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Gaëlle CarayonICC Outreach and Advocacy Officer Gaelle graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politique in France and obtained an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex where she focused on state responsibility for human rights violations. Gaelle previously undertook internships with Amnesty International in Brussels as well as the World Organization against Torture in Geneva . She has previously worked with REDRESS on its ICC programme for 1.5 years and after spending over a year with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Tanzania , she is returning to REDRESS to rejoin the ICC programme.
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Carla FerstmanDirector Carla Ferstman joined REDRESS in 2001 as its Legal Director and became its Director in 2005. She was called to the Bar in British Columbia, Canada where she practiced as a criminal law barrister. She has also worked with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on legal reform and capacity building in post-genocide Rwanda, with Amnesty International's International Secretariat as a legal researcher on trials in Central Africa and as Executive Legal Advisor to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Commission for Real Property Claims of Displaced Persons and Refugees (CRPC). She has an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from New York University. Ms. Ferstman has published and is a regular commentator on victims' rights, the International Criminal Court and the prohibition against torture. |
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Sarah FultonInternational Legal Officer Sarah joined REDRESS as International Legal Officer in 2010. She is a dual-qualified lawyer (England and Australia) and previously practised as an international arbitration lawyer in London. Sarah has also worked in East Timor, where she was a legal research assistant for an organisation monitoring trials at the Special Panels for Serious Crimes, in England and Australia, as a research assistant for senior Judges, and in China. Sarah holds a BA (International Relations) and LLB (Hons I) from the University of Queensland, and an LLM from University College London, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar.
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Mariana GoetzDeputy Director / Director of Programmes Mariana Goetz obtained her law degree at King's College London in 1995, and a Masters in International Law & Development at the London School of Economics in 1996. After campaigning for the establishment of the International Criminal Court for the organisation ‘No Peace Without Justice’ and as assistant to the Government of Senegal at the 1998 Rome Conference for the establishment of the International Criminal Court, she joined the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and later the Special Court for Sierra Leone where she was the Legal Advisor to the Registrar. Currently Mariana is undertaking a PhD at the London School of Economics on the use of international criminal justice mechanisms in post conflict situations where she also taught Public International Law. Mariana has also undertaken training for the IBA Human Rights training programme for Iraqi Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers and has consulted on transitional justice issues. |
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Dadimos HaileLegal Advisor Dadimos Haile holds a Doctorate from Duke University School of Law, USA, a Masters from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and a law degree from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Before joining Redress Dadimos worked as the Head of the International Justice Programme with Avocats Sans Frontieres. He was previously a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp and has served as a Federal High Court Judge and as a legal advisor in Ethiopia. |
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Catie HarveyAdministrator Catie joined REDRESS in January 2012. She graduated with a degree in English from Cambridge University in 2010. Before joining REDRESS, Catie worked as the Regional Administrator in the Midlands for the British Lung Foundation. She has also volunteered with a number of organizations including Sustainable Global Gardens (an agricultural development charity that works mostly in East Africa), the Dawn Centre (a homeless shelter in Leicester) and City of Sanctuary (an organization that provides services for refugees and asylum seekers). |
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Makuta KamaraFinance Assistant Makuta Upendo Kamara is originally from Sinkunia, in the north of Sierra Leone. From 1996 - 2000, she was an accountant at the Sierra Leoneon military headquarters in Freetown, where she stayed throughout the military conflict in the country. She moved to the UK in 2000. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics, Major in Accounting from the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. She is a Part Qualified ACCA and in 2009 obtained an MSc in Charity Accounting and Finance from the London South Bank University.
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Kevin LaueLegal Advisor Kevin Laue is a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer who was in private practice in that country from 1984 to 2002. In 1996 he was a founder of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, which organization he chaired for the next five years. Originally from South Africa he attended Natal University where he graduated BA (Hons) LLB (cum laude). From 1976 to 1982 he worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF) in London, and was an active member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Kevin joined REDRESS in December 2002.
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Lutz OetteCounsel Lutz qualified as a lawyer in Germany. He holds a doctorate for his thesis on the compatibility of UN economic sanctions with international human rights and international humanitarian law. He is a lecturer in law at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. Prior to joining REDRESS, he has worked with several human rights organizations and research institutions in Germany and the UK.
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Liliana RodriguesFundraising Officer Liliana joined REDRESS in March 2012 after having worked with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, for five years, on humanitarian and development aid. She has a degree in International Relations from the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. While in Portugal, Liliana volunteered with the Portuguese Red Cross for many years, as a certified first aid officer. |
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Eva SanchisCommunications Officer Eva joined REDRESS in 2011. Prior to joining REDRESS, she was the home affairs editor for El Diario-La Prensa, New York’s largest Spanish-language newspaper. She previously worked as its senior political and investigative reporter, and worked on several award-winning projects, including one that prompted a change in federal detention standards. She has also reported from Spain and the UK, and covered Latin America as a Johns Hopkins' International Reporting Project fellow. She has a M.A. in Journalism and Latin American studies from New York University, where she was an adjunct professor. Eva is originally from Spain. |
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Åsa Rydberg van der SluisLegal consultant Åsa Rydberg van der Sluis is a Swedish lawyer with an LLM from Uppsala University. She worked for the United Nations for over seven years at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she held legal positions in the Registry Legal Advisory Section as well as in Chambers. More recently she has assisted Human Rights Watch on a project relating to the International Criminal Court.
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Jürgen SchurrLegal Advisor Jürgen joined REDRESS in 2006 as Project Coordinator on Universal Jurisdiction, having previously worked for various human rights organisations. In 2009 he took a position as Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He returned to REDRESS as Legal Advisor in 2010 and is working on REDRESS’ projects in a variety of countries, including India, Russia, Rwanda and Uganda. Jürgen obtained his law degree from the University of East Anglia and a LLM from the University of Trier.
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Michelle WillisHead of Finance Michelle Willis is originally from Marondera, Zimbabwe. She relocated to the UK in 1998 and graduated with a BA in Business Accounting from Wales University. She joined REDRESS in September 2003. Previously, she worked in the accounting department of the distribution company for Polo / Ralph Lauren. In her spare time she volunteers with 'The Youth Group', an association that provides sporting opportunities for teenagers in Hertfordshire.
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Trustees
Sir Emyr Jones Parry, GCMG, PhD, FInstP - Chair
A British diplomat, former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Read full bio...
Michael Birnbaum QC
Barrister at 9-12 Bell Yard Chambers.
Professor Bill Bowring
Professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. He is a practising barrister at Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn
Sherman Carroll PhD, MBE (Hon.)
Head of Amnesty International's campaigns, including the abolition of torture (1974-1983) and co-founder of its medical programme; director of policy at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (retired 2006); and founding editor of human rights publisher Readers International, London and USA.
Simon Carruth - Hon. Treasurer
Interim Chief Executive and the Finance Director at Gemin-i. He is the Former Chief Executive of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (now Freedom from Torture)
Sir Robin Christopher
Former Ambassador in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Patricia Hakong
Head of Finance & Risk Management, Lloyd's Market Association
Leah Levin, OBE
Founder member of REDRESS, a Trustee of International Alert, and a former Director of Justice (the British Section of the International Commission of Jurists)
Reverend Nicholas Mercer
Former Lieutenant Colonel with the British army, and teacher at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo. Nicholas was named Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year 2011-2012 for his work for prisoners of war in Iraq in 2003.
Frances Pinter, Ph.D.
Publisher of Bloomsbury Academic, formerly Publishing Director of the Soros Foundation (OSI) and Founder of Pinter Publishers.
Jennifer White
Lawyer at Allen & Overy LLP, specialising in finance related transactional law for financial institutions and NGOs . Former Treasurer of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders USA.
Trustees (USA)
Professor Michael Bazyler, Chair
Stephanie Deckrosh
Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Professor David Weissbrodt
Patrons
The Rt Hon the Lord Archer of Sandwell QC
Professor Michael Bazyler
The Rt Hon the Lord Crickhowell
Dato’ Param Cumaraswamy
Edward Datnow FRCS
François de Vargas
The Dowager Countess of Dundonald
Anthony Foulger
The Rt Hon the Viscount Gage
Sandy Gall CMGCBE
Inge Genefke MD, D.M.Sc.h.c.
The Rt Hon the Earl of Haddington
Dame Roslyn Higgins DBE QC
The Rt Hon the Lord Judd
The Rt Hon the Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC Owen Davies QC
Ms Caroline Moorehead CBE
The Rt Rev Richard D Harries of Pentregarth
The Hon Lord Prosser
The Rt Hon the Lord Richard QC
Professor Dinah Shelton
John Simpson CBE
Professor Theo van Boven
Professor David Weissbrodt
Professor Graham Zellick
Legal Advisory Council
Professor Michael Bazyler
Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law, California.
Sir Geoffrey Bindman
Solicitor specialising in human rights and founder and senior consultant at Bindmans and Partners, solicitors.
Owen Davies, QC
Barrister at 2 Garden Court Chambers
Joanna Glynn QC
Barrister at 23 Essex Street Chambers.
Professor David Harris
Professor of Law, Nottingham University
Lorna McGregor
Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex
Professor Geraldine Van Bueren
Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Professor David Weissbrodt
Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Chairperson of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Founder
Following his release in 1984, Keith Carmichael, a torture survivor, consulted those with extensive experience in human rights, law and non-governmental organizations about how to go about seeking reparation for torture. He also met with over 90 other survivors many of whom, like him, wanted to seek redress but did not know how to go about it. While existing NGOs helped survivors in other ways - by campaigning for their release, providing safe havens and medical care - none assisted them to obtain reparation. While the right to reparation existed in law, the practical difficulties in obtaining reparation proved difficult to overcome.
Keith Carmichael developed the concept for REDRESS in consultation with four persons in particular: the late Peter Davies OBE, former Director of Anti-Slavery International, Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, Leah Levin, former Director of Justice, and Professor David Weissbrodt of the University of Minnesota, who shared the same interest in seeking ways of obtaining reparation for victims of torture. In 1990, a concept paper for a new initiative, REDRESS - a programme to focus on the right of torture survivors to reparation and to assist them to seek a remedy - was circulated.
The idea was discussed further at the IV International Symposium on Torture and the Medical Profession held in October 1991 in Budapest, and again at the Symposium on Human Rights and Development in December 1991 in Manila. Among others, Eric Sottas, Director of OMCT/SOS-Torture, Professor Bent Sorensen, and Dr Inge Gnefke, participated in the discussion. The conclusion was that there was a need for such a specialised organisation and an action programme should be developed. Keith Carmichael established REDRESS which was registered as a charity in the UK in December 1992.
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