Two former SRT grantees have been involved in groundbreaking victories in two separate cases. In the first, a landmark ruling by the Inter-American Court…
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Victims represented by SRT grantee partner Civitas Maxima welcomed the fact that the Paris ‘Cour d’assises’ found a convicted Liberian rebel commander guilty after…
A review conducted by CHEM Trust has found significant shortcomings in the UK’s post-Brexit chemical regulatory system, known as UK REACH. Despite government assurances…
SRT grantee partner the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) has welcomed a political agreement made by EU legislators on the Corporate Sustainability Due…
In the first case filed with the UN on behalf of former members of a national human rights institution, SRT grantee the International Service for…
Eight human rights organisations from around the world, including SRT grantees International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Conectas, Gulf Center for Human Rights, Center for Legal…
6th September 2016: The Supreme Court of Appeal (confirming an order of the North Gauteng High Court) has confirmed the right to South African citizenship…
22nd September 2016: At least 1,000 Syrian refugees who have been granted resettlement to third countries are being denied exit permits by the Turkish government…
13th September 2016: The Zimbabwe Constitutional Court has declared life sentences without the possibility of parole to be both cruel and inhuman punishment and a…
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…
4th September 2016: The UK Home Office has today announced that it is committing £10 million in new funding towards English language classes for Syrian…
Toronto, August 25th 2016: SRT grantee Citizen Lab, together with US-based mobile security firm Lookout Security, has uncovered a sophisticated cyber-attack targeting human rights defender…
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…