Istanbul, 16th May 2017: Murat Çelikkan, co-director of SRT grantee Hafiza Merkezi, was today sentenced to 18 months in prison at the Istanbul Penal Court…
Grantee stories
29 April 2017: In a landmark decision, Kyrgyzstan has adopted legislation to better protect victims of domestic violence. In 2015 SRT grantee Open Line was part…
SRT grantee Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE), which is based in Mexico, has received the 2017 Gilberto Bosques Human Rights Award. This prestigious award…
On 7 April 2017, South Africa will appear before the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to argue why the Court should not…
13th March 2017: the Metropolitan Police and Home Office have sought a Supreme Court ruling saying police cannot be sued for failures that left violent…
1st March 2017: The Israeli State Attorney’s Office has withdrawn its request requiring SRT grantee Breaking the Silence to hand over material relating to investigations into…
International human rights organisations, including SRT grantees the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, FIDH and Reporters Without Borders, have called on the European Commission to take…
SRT grantee the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), one of the first NGOs to be granted consultative status with the United Nations in…
February 2, 2017: SRT grantee Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (CEDEHM) has coordinated a statement signed by more than 50 human rights organisations expressing…
23rd January 2017: President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order expanding the reach of a policy which restricts the services and information foreign NGOs…