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,…
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Media Defence and Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova secured a landmark ruling for press freedom at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The…
Grantee News MSF is one of over 30 NGOs banned by Israel from operating inside Gaza and the West Bank. This follows a threat to withhold registration…
Grantee News Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is among groups urging lawmakers in Kazakhstan to reject a draft law with amendments that would ban…
On 21st November, SRT grantee, the International Refugee Assistance Project, working with partner organizations, won a class action lawsuit in support of a group of…
On 19 November 2019, the Bukavu Garrison Court (South Kivu) found three former militiamen guilty of crimes against humanity. They received heavy prison sentences, ranging…
The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) has been working with Afghan and Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants who are in a programme established as…
We would like to congratulate SRT grantee Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) on winning the EU Investigative Journalism Award! KRIK’s story “How Serbia’s Health…
For the first time in history, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Bosnian authorities for failing to fulfil their obligations toward…
In May 2019, the District Court in Nowy Sącz, Poland, ordered an incapacitated person to be entered in the voters’ register for the European Parliamentary…
On Tuesday, 11 June 2019, a full bench of the Botswana High Court issued a ground-breaking judgment, decriminalising same-sex sexual conduct between consenting adults. In…
Seventeen years after SRT grantees DEMUS and CLADEM first filed a petition to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, on behalf of a young Peruvian girl,…
On the 5th of April 2019, the municipality of Giugliano (a small town close to Naples) issued an urgent ordinance for the removal of a…
The Board and staff of the Sigrid Rausing Trust extend their deepest sympathy to the family and colleagues of Bob Bernstein, a former member of…