Grantee News: Media Defence has welcomed a Zimbabwe High Court ruling quashing criminal charges against Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba, whose legal defence it…
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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…
Grantee News HOPE not Hate continues to uncover racist and extremist rhetoric linked to Reform UK candidates and councillors following the UK’s local elections.
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7 November 2016: The Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security has instructed the immigration authorities to align their practice with Norway’s international obligations, taking…
Banjul, 27 October 2016: SRT grantee IHRDA has set a new precedent in African child rights litigation by reaching a settlement in a case against the…
14 October 2016: The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the World Bank’s arbitration body, has ruled that mining company Pac Rim Cayman…
13 October 2016: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has called on Iran to immediately release and compensate Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual…
Poland, 12th October 2016: A first instance court has ruled in a case brought by the family of a deceased prisoner that the right to…
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…