8th September 2016: Brandon Bryant, Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland, all of whom have worked on the Obama Administration’s drone programme, have filed a legal…
Grantee stories
19th August 2016: Amnesty International has today released a report titled ‘It breaks the human’: Torture, Disease and Death in Syria’s Prisons, which details the…
17th August 2016: A four-year academic research project has found that global torture prevention measures, such as the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against…
11th August 2016: A law in Belize that disproportionately affects gay men was ruled unconstitutional yesterday by the country’s Supreme Court. Section 53 of Belize’s…
11th August 2016: SRT grantee Al Mezan has today released the following statement: “Staff members of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan) have been…
11th August 2016: SRT grantee the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is concerned about the deteriorating health of its president, leading human rights defender Nabeel…
Geneva, 26th July 2016: A coalition of Burundian NGOs, with the support of SRT grantees TRIAL International and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) along with three…
21st June 2016: the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to 18…
11th July 2016: the Israeli Knesset has voted 57-48 to approve a controversial bill requiring non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to publicly report if they receive more…
10th July 2015: SRT grantee Physicians for Human Rights today called for a criminal investigation into the American Psychological Association’s (APA) role in the torture of…