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…
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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,…
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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…
This gift will fund a Neurogenetic Therapies Programme to build on advances in understanding the genetic basis of neurodegenerative diseases, significantly speeding up their translation…
On May 21, 2019, the Istanbul 25th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Sabancı University professor Ayşe Gül Altınay to two years and one month imprisonment on…
On 14th March, Medical Justice was granted permission for a judicial review of the Removal Notice Window, a removals policy enforced by the Home Office under…
In early April 2019, Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, pardoned 367 women convicted for “pregnancy-related crimes.” Among them was Valentine, whose case had been accompanied…
On 22 March 2019, Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled that the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) should be allowed to officially register…
On 11th March, the hallway leading to the offices of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia (grantee since 2018, current grant £75,000 over one…