Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24th February, we have been in constant contact with our grantees in the country and others directly affected. Our Chair…
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Highlighted stories from across our programmes
On 23rd of March 2022, the UN women’s rights committee decided that the criminalisation of consensual, same-sex intimacy…
In late February 2022, hundreds of activists from Latin America’s “Marea Verde” or “Green Wave” movement donned green neck scarves and signs to…
In November 2021, the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) confirmed that Hungary’s 2018 “Stop Soros” Act that foresees potential criminal sanctions for those providing assistance…
On October 28 2021, Geoff Budlender, a South African anti-apartheid lawyer and current Sigrid Rausing Trustee, was awarded the 2021 International Bar Association Pro Bono…
On July 23 2021, Sierra Leone’s Parliament unanimously voted in favor of a bill to abolish the death penalty. The Death Penalty Project, a London-based…
When the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, victims of torture were especially hard hit by the devastating economic, health and social effects. Lost…
Julienne Lusenge, co-founder and Chair of the Board of SRT grantee Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development (SOFEPADI), a women’s rights organisation focused on…
Legal advocacy group and SRT grantee Reprieve has successfully advocated for cleared two clients, Asadullah Haroon Gul…
We are shocked and saddened by the unexpected death of our former Trustee Jonathan Cooper. Jonathan served a six-year term as a Trustee of SRT…
No Borders is a project of the Social Action Centre, a Kyiv-based NGO that advocates for equality for LGBTI people, persons with disabilities,…
Founded in Lebanon in 2006, Zoukak creates common spaces for creative expression in the community through theatre, writing, acting as therapy, role play and imagination.
For decades Turkish people have lived with the threat of repression. Torture, forced abductions, extrajudicial killings, extended detentions and imprisonment are all widespread. It is…
On Tuesday, 7 September 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court voted to decriminalise abortion, annulling several provisions of a law enacted in Coahuila, a…