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Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…

Grantee News: The Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) has welcomed new legislation that has come into force simplifying residency procedures for…

Grantee News: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Háttér Society, and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, along with Amnesty International Hungary, have secured a major…

Grantee News HOPE not Hate continues to uncover racist and extremist rhetoric linked to Reform UK candidates and councillors following the UK’s local elections.

In the run up to the UK’s recent local council elections, HOPE not Hate published multiple investigations that uncovered racist, antisemitic, Islamophobic and extremist…

Grantee News Háttér Society has welcomed a landmark ruling in which the EU’s top court found that Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBTQI law breached core EU…

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a landmark judgment against Hungary’s anti-LGBTQI “propaganda” law, in a case supported by Háttér…

Grantee News Direkt36 journalist Szabolcs Panyi  has been charged with espionage in Hungary following his reporting on alleged links between senior officials and Russia,…

Grantee News Bellingcat has published an investigation documenting how Russia’s war has devastated civilian life in Ukraine, verifying over 2,500 cases of civilian harm,…

Media Defence and Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova secured a landmark ruling for press freedom at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The…