Grantee news: Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) has been named one of four recipients of the 2026 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as…
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Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…
Grantee News: The Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) has welcomed new legislation that has come into force simplifying residency procedures for…
Grantee News: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Háttér Society, and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, along with Amnesty International Hungary, have secured a major…
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In a landmark judgment on 13th October, the UK Court of Appeal has found that ‘separate but equal’ treatment based on gender at a school…
Last week the Polish president, Andrezej Duda, signed into law a reform that allows the government to create a ‘National Institute of Freedom’ and a…
A group of seven unlawfully detained torture victims, supported by SRT grantee Medical Justice, has successfully challenged the government’s redefinition of torture in immigration detention…
Geneva, 25th September 2017: Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Al-Assad is being investigated for war crimes by the Swiss authorities, following a criminal complaint in…
September 2017: The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and SRT grantee the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) have filed a femicide case with the…
18 September 2017: A Bahraini High Court is preparing to sentence the mother-in-law, brother-in-law and cousin of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Director of Advocacy at SRT…
A joint investigation by several international media outlets including the Guardian, along with SRT grantee the Organized Crime and Corruption reporting Project (OCCRP), has uncovered a…
New York, 17 August 2017: In a landmark case, SRT grantee the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced a settlement in its lawsuit against the…
1st August 2017: A Georgian trans man, Mr D, has lodged an application before the European Court of Human Rights, challenging Georgia’s refusal to change…
2nd August 2017: A report released by SRT grantee Citizen Lab has shown that lawyers acting in a high-profile murder case in Mexico were targeted by…